Page 77 of Fortune Fae Academy

Which meant he was no match for me.

Ignoring him, I caught the mare’s wild gaze. “Hey, shh,” I said, soothing her with a brush of Dust over her shoulder.

She pawed and whinnied at my presence, but then I felt her nudge at my mind.

You and I are the same,I thought at her. She couldn’t have a conversation with me, but she would be able to read my intentions through my mental words.Held down by chains of those who think they can control us. Don’t you want to be back where you belong?

I wasn’t sure where that was. Maybe ThornWood Forest, or perhaps someplace more distant.

I had a feeling she would know exactly where to go if she had a chance to leave.

The Beta stood up and cracked a whip in the air, startling the mare. “Don’ make me use this on yeh, girl.”

When I didn’t move, he cracked it again and the mare snorted in fury.

I was so sick of assholes. So sick of fae thinking they could use others for their own needs.

Leaning down, I produced my dagger from my boot.

“Oy! What do ye think yer doin’ with that—”

The Beta didn’t get a chance to finish his sentence as I sliced through the Dust-reinforced harness, setting the mare free.

My collar seared my skin in retaliation. I yelped in surprise. Clearly, I’d violated some directive and overstepped what boundaries Amell had put in place.

The collar had never been dormant.

It had been a loose leash that tightened when I stepped out of line.

I collapsed to my knees and clawed at it as fire burned down my spine.

But the mare was free. She reared up on her hind legs as the spell that had held her broke, sending a small shock wave across the ground. The impact blew my hair over my shoulders and kicked up dust from the road. Fae all around us commented on the spectacle.

Especially when the mare’s horn reappeared.

She turned on the cart, making the Beta panic when he realized her intent.

The future flashed through the air, giving me an echo of the snapping of a timeline just before the mare soared through the air and pierced her horn straight through the Beta’s chest.

His blood splattered across my face, but I didn’t turn away from the carnage I had caused.

Death seemed to follow me wherever I went. But if it was for the sake of justice, forchange, did that make it a bad thing?

The crowd delved into panic at the gruesome sight. An Alphas’ battle was one thing on the streets, something that wasn’t very uncommon. But a Beta boasting the Collegium’s seal being brutally mauled before their eyes was another.

They murmured, openly staring at me. But none dared to approach.

None dared to stifle an Omega who had risked opposing the Collegium.

The mare turned on me, making me stiffen as I struggled for breath. A wild creature could be unpredictable, but she lowered her head.

As if to offer me thanks.

But her horn went to my throat, making me freeze completely. She could slash me open and bleed me out right here.

A searing pain sliced across my neck, and I thought for a moment that she’d done exactly that.

But my timeline didn’t snap in half. The future didn’t close off before my eyes.