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“What the fuck,” Ajax whispers looking white as a ghost.

Jeremy brings their two bloody hands together as gently as he can. Blood is splashing onto the ground from their hands. He’s merging the power of his blood into hers.

A breath of fresh power and magic runs through Aly, her breathing picks up and color starts coming back to her skin.

With this surge of power I’m able to pluck the root of the memory charm from her unconscious. At least now we will be able to explain what we had to do to save her life. It’s going to take a lot more explaining than the conversation we had planned.

Opening my eyes, I lift up her shirt. Just enough to see her ribs. I see it start to form on her right side. Winding and weaving the black through her skin until Jeremy’s pentagram stands out in bold black against her creamy skin. Or what I assume is his pentagram, like any demon, he doesn’t share it easily.

I can only hope she’ll understand we had to and forgive us.

Everyone is staring at her ribs in shock and some fury. Kiran opens his mouth no doubt to rake us through the coals when Jeremy drops to his knees.

He clutches his chest over his heart pulling in ragged breaths. Almost instantly he looks up at Aly with a look of wonder I doubt we will ever see again. The bond must have clicked.

He lifts his shirt revealing his chest and there carved into his skin is a mark like no other I’ve seen before. It looks like it was carved with a knife, red and healed over.

Two arrows cross creating an X over his heart. It looks like some sort of ancient warriors mark.

What the hell kind of mating mark is that?