Haylee's POV
The energy transferring from my hand into his is coursing liquid fire through my veins, but I still make myself keep my grip, even as every motherly instinct in me yells to shatter this circle and snatch my boys up. The energy exchanged between us is unlike anything I have ever experienced--raw, primal, and frighteningly limitless. We hold the very power of life in the palm of our hands and the weight of controlling it so wobbles my hands, even as I focus.
“The circle’s holding,” a straining, ancient voice calls out, from Elder Patricia. Her wrinkled brow is sweating, and I realize how much this ritual is costing her time-punished body. "But barely. The dimension wall is attacking us.”
I see the clenching of Aiden’s jaw as the Devourer King strides toward us, his enormity warping the reality around him. Smoke and dust rises in the air as the monster moves, and even the very air itself, recoils at his approach. All of my mate's muscles are tense with the urge to attack, to
