Page 63 of Visions of You

Altair's gaze narrowed. "Do you think he's in danger?"

"I think everyone with a fated mate is in danger."

Altair took this in with a grim expression. "What do they want with fated mates?" he wondered.

Keegan had an idea, but not one that he wanted to voice at this point. "I don't know," he said and left it at that.

Keegan returned to the library where he'd been researching how to change fate and opened the book he'd been in the process of reading earlier when he'd fallen asleep. A knot of dread twisted in his gut as he considered the kidnapping and everything else that had been happening lately.

What if…?

No, it couldn't be.

The worst suspicion nagged at him, a possibility he didn't want to entertain but couldn't shake.

Forcing himself to focus, he read the text again. The words seemed to mock him from the page, stating that changing fate was no easy matter and required a great amount of cosmic energy. The kind of energy that could be released when a fated couple was torn apart, their destiny altered by the hands of another.

Keegan stared at the page, worrying his lower lip.

Did the kidnapper also want to change fate the way Keegan did?

Were they collecting fated mates to sacrifice them, using their bond to steer the future in a certain direction?

Why, though?

And how would they know about fate's plans the way he did?

Unless…they were also a seer.

The realization hit him like a punch to the gut. It would explain how he had gotten the first set of victims wrong, if someone was playing chess with him without his knowledge.

They would have to be another vampire or a highly trained magic user.

Keegan's hands trembled slightly as he closed the book. He didn't want to go up against another seer. What a fucking headache that would be. Especially if they were more powerful than Keegan.

Could they be?

And what event did they want to change?

Closing his eyes, Keegan tried to sense if there was anything unusual going on with the threads of the future. He reached out with his mind, seeking any anomalies or disturbances in the delicate web of fate.

It was no use, though. He couldn't sense anything with how drained he was.

Should he tell Altair about this?

No, not until he knew more. Right now he had nothing more than a suspicion.

He left the library in search of blood. A bottle or two should fill him up enough for him to be able to see if anyone had been messing with the future.

Best case scenario, he'd find nothing.

If the kidnapper had already acted on their plan… they would already have sacrificed someone.

Keegan shoved the thought aside. He needed to get blood and then he needed to look at Apollo's future and though he was not a religious vampire, he prayed to every God he knew that he would find something other than impending death there.

Apollo's connection to Mordyn was incredibly strong after everything they'd been through with Apollo being the reincarnation of Mordyn's first mate. Severing that bond would release a lot of energy.

What evil villain could resist such power?