Page 57 of Fortune Fae Academy

Although, I grew weary of my numerous enemies.

Amell. Roderik. And Etu, of course, to name a few.

They wore different faces, but they were all the same.

They wanted power. Control.

At the expense of everyone and everything.

Etu was a slave to the Web, imprisoned by it and only drawn out by a link he and I shared. I hadn’t heard from him since my last true venture.

I could feel him now that I was in Astral form, but he was still otherwise occupied. It unnerved me that I could hear a distant conversation as he talked with someone.

Which was… odd. He’d been in solitude for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

Etu is trapped in Roderik’s mansion with the Omega Catalina,Axel supplied, apparently closely monitoring my thoughts.That’s another problem we need to deal with. But we’re safe from him, for now. Roderik and Amell are more pressing matters.

I blew out a breath. Yet another ticking time bomb, for sure.

Amell was my more pressing enemy, I agreed, so I would face him first. Axel would have to distract Roderik, for now, while I toyed with the timelines.

And saved the world.

No pressure.

“I’ll leave you to it,” Amell said with a nod. Then he was gone, leaving behind a view of the piece of my soul I’d been after.

I waded through the pool of silver and found it tucked against the edge of an old mine shaft.

When I picked it up, it ventured into my Astral form. The memories didn’t hit me hard like last time.

Inside the mine shaft, there was a small keypad and an old elevator I had once used to escape Seifiek. Nuit had been with me and I whimsically thought of him, hoping he was all right.

The irony wasn’t lost on me as I finally allowed my soul to return to my body, drawn by my Alphas’ rumbling growls and purrs.

I’d once run from my destiny.

Now, I unwound the strands of destiny’s design, ready to weave my own.

With dawn camethe realization I had been denying all night.

Zeke was leaving.

And there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it, either.

Gina, though, was coming home. A new future had appeared in the Web, showing me various paths that had most certainly not been there before.

Gina. Seif. Axel.

Me.

But no Zeke.

The strings of my future blared to life, showing me each timeline with perfect clarity. Every one I checked, however, was missing Zeke’s presence. His comfort and his knowledge had been a part of me ever since I’d left the House of Iron. He’d been my rock. My reason for being.

Now, he was gone.

Fury boiled inside of me, needing someone to blame.