Part 5

The ball formed in Kai’s hands and he lashed out making it fly towards me. Levi tackled him to the ground hard. I went down on one knee and crossed my arms to somehow block the magic fireball hurtling towards me. I could feel the pressure of it against me but my arms were ablaze as well and the ball evaporated.

“How the hell did you do that?” Kai asked me as I stood up, looking just as bewildered as he did.

“Kiran slit my throat,” I said as Kai walked towards me again.

Kai grabbed me and pulled me closer as his tears started. “I’m sorry,” he whispered and let go of me after a few minutes. Jericho appeared with Storm and his twins and he grabbed his father first as the twins ran to me.

“How?” Jericho asked after hugging Levi for a long time.

We all gathered in the kitchen area, some of us around the table and the others on the couches. I told them everything that happened, what Kiran had told me and what he did afterwards. Kai was angry, Levi just nodded and Jericho looked at me intently.

“You have his Alpha aura, I can feel it. It feels like him,” Jericho said as his eyes flashed between violet and blue and green.

“We should prepare their bodies,” Saga said as she finally made her way downstairs and went to Kai as they wrapped themselves around each other. That’s when Saga finally broke down and showed her true sadness, she would only do that with Kai and William.

“I can’t believe he’s gone,” William said as he stood next to Levi.

“Even dying he did on his own terms, you could never tell that one what to do,” Levi said and I started to laugh as I looked around. Soon we were all laughing because it was true, nobody told Kiran what to do, apparently not even Death.

We kept the funeral ceremony small, only the family which included Alex and his family. Kiran had seen him as a close confidante and friend. I had seen too much death in my life but their deaths were the hardest to accept.

We stood in the small clearing around their bodies. Adara was dressed all in white, looking peaceful as she lay next to Kiran. They had fought and loved each other fiercely. In my eyes there was nobody that could compare to Kiran.

“We are all gathered here tonight under the full moon to give our respects to Kiran and Adara Sinclair. I call unto the gods to accept them both in the afterlife. I call unto Odin to grant Kiran and Adara passage into his realm, where I’m sure Malachi awaits them,” Kai said as he stood at their heads.

“Adara was a good mother. She loved us with everything in her. She took none of our bullshit but nobody would dare harm us in her presence either. She loved to help people, she healed everybody she could. Healing was her life, so was her family and even though she and Kiran fought a lot, she loved him with everything in her,” he continued.

“Saga Sinclair, step forth and claim the first incision,” Kai said clearly.

William stepped forward with Saga, holding onto her hand tightly as tears ran down her face. Kai gripped the ceremonial knife and handed it over to William. They knelt next to Adara and Saga’s hand was on top of William’s as they cut down her sternum. William pulled her rib cage apart and Kai stepped forward as he and Saga took hands and gripped her heart together, setting her spirit free.

“I love you, Mom,” Saga whispered as they put her heart back into her chest.

“I could talk about Kiran for weeks. He was a great father, a great Alpha, a great leader. He had a wild temper but the one emotion that always ruled him was love. He loved each and every one of us with everything in him. He never backed down from danger, instead he ran head first into the worst of situations. He died for us, a few times and kicked our asses when we needed it,” Kai said and a small smile formed on my lips.

“Christian Sinclair, step forth and claim the first cut,” Kai said as he looked at me.

I stood rooted to the spot. I was adopted, I wasn’t their blood but I loved them all the same. Kiran had given me a purpose, a life, pride in myself and he’d loved me too. I had seen his pain when I had died, the years he had mourned me. He had never stopped mourning me.

I took the knife from Kai as he nodded. “He loved you, Christian, he did this for you once, now it’s your turn to do this for him.”

I knelt next to Kiran and unbuttoned his shirt, not wanting to ruin it. I made the cut down his chest and then cut through the sternum. I gripped his ribs and pulled them apart. I looked up at Kai but he didn’t move, nobody did. I pulled his heart out and lifted it into the moonlight. A fire surrounded us, blazing green then red and finally blue.

Kiran’s body was levitating a few inches off the ground and his mouth opened as a bright white light escaped like a sigh and moved towards me. I stumbled back falling down on my ass as the white light entered me and I could feel Kiran.

Kai had stopped everyone as they took a step toward me. I still had Kiran’s heart in my hand and I placed it gently back into his chest and stood up. The knowledge of Kiran Sinclair filled me, his strength and his magic surrounded me.

I went to stand next to Kai and he nodded at me, like he knew what I was going to do. I closed my eyes and I pictured it. I felt his hand on my shoulder and then I felt Jericho’s hand on my other shoulder. We opened our eyes and I could feel that my eyes had changed color.

The Valknut burned around Kiran and Adara, the flames leaping up into the sky before settling over them, engulfing their bodies. I was praying for the Valkyries to reach down and take their hands, to escort them to the afterlife.

“Brenna,” we said together and the flames started burning brighter and I could feel the heat of the flames as their bodies burned.