Page 112 of Touched By Moonlight

No, I donot.

But I was growing weaker and the fight drainedme.

Surrender. Nothing in my sorry life was worth fighting for anymore, because I had no home, nofamily.

And then I glanced at my boys and knew I had everything worth fightingfor.

I threw out my hand. Grayson caught it. Grimacing, he yelled for Stephan and Nicolas to shift back, and then they held hands, struggling against the wind lashingthem.

I released my power. Grayson yelled as the burning engulfed him, but he did not letgo.

“Stephan, Nicolas, tome!”

The alpha released a mighty roar, clasped their hands and passed on the power to his betas. Through blurred vision I saw the white and blue glow surrounding Stephan and Nicolas. But then Grayson tugged away his hands. He staggered toward Kallan and his hands glowed electric blue, likemine.

And then he slammed his hand into the ground, and the ghost army rushed toward him, flowing likewater.

Grayson absorbed the ancient magick, as he had in the past. His claim was first, and the ancients recognizedthis.

Glowing blue with energy, Grayson took the hits Kallan hurled at him, one after another. He grunted and cursed as whipcords of fire lashed his body, turning him bloody. But he did not stop absorbing the ancient Fae energy, not until the last ghost hadvanished.

Then the alpha released the power. All of it. I saw it leave his body in a violent rush, like a damnuncorked.

My brother had not expected that. Caught off-guard, he flew backwards against a tree and the energy pinned him there like an insect. He screamed and writhed, but the power proved too much. It sank into his skin, burned hisbones.

Caught in the web of Grayson’s magick, Kallan fought against it. Grayson kept directing more energy at Kallan. Even his own wolf magick, shown by his green aura, left his body and streamed intoKallan.

The alpha was using wolf energy and Fae to destroy my brother. Kallan could have absorbed the Fae powers and used it against Grayson, but the wolf energy was foreign, like a virus invading a healthy body, and all his energy was directed at fightingit.

But in doing so, Grayson was losing hislife.

“No,” I screamed, my hair streaming in the forceful wind created by Grayson’s magick stream. “Don’t release all of it. You’lldie.”

Grayson’s face contorted in agony. “If it means you will live, then this is the onlyway.”

Summoning all my strength, I gathered more power and released it toward mybrother.

Once we had beenfriends.

Laughedtogether.

Grew uptogether.

“Good-bye Kallan,” Iwhispered.

An anguished scream ripped from Kallan’s throat as the blue-white power slammed into him. Kallan exploded into a shower of dark ash, swept away by thewind.

I ran over to Grayson, who stared sightlessly at thesky.

And I wept, for he was gone aswell.