LOGIN“What do we need?” I asked Lady Thalia who pulled me further away from the battle. Lin followed closely. I wondered if they could feel that I was pregnant now but from their silence, I doubted it.Lady Thalia grimaced. “I haven't done this before, we're just going to lean into our magic and see what we can do.”I nodded in agreement. My whole body was still on edge. Malachi had me in his hold just barely moments ago and the fear was still in my bones. But more powerful than fear, was the new surge of power I felt flowing from my head to my feet.“Did you see the veil take a physical form when it tore?” Lady Thalia asked me. Before I could answer she waved the question away. “It doesn't matter. We'll summon it to take a physical form.”My eyes bulged out of their sockets. “Here?”“Yes. Here.”I turned to check. Sandro and the other warriors had almost completely gotten rid of the risen dead. If we summoned the veil here, what if we're not able to close it in time? They could be floode
“Two heartbeats?” I whispered to myself as the implication of what he had just said dawned on me. I'm pregnant?A small smile threatened to stretch across my face. I'm pregnant! Quickly coming back to reality, I realized that Malachi didn't have just my life at stake. I was carrying a life within me and I had the responsibility of keeping that life safe.“Use me, mother,” I whispered to Lekhia. “Fill my bones with your power and your magic so that your bloodline shall live on and on.”Malachi's face was still etched with confusion as he looked from my body to the dying battle happening outside the shield while Sandro still tried to break the shield. My heart soared towards his. We were having a baby.“You wouldn't want to do that, would you? Hurt an innocent child?” I asked softly, hoping that this new revelation would change the game in Malachi's plans.I heard another crack from the shield. They were getting closer but not fast enough. I wondered how Sandro would react to the new
The only part of my body that I could move was my eye and my lips. “Let me go you bastard,” I screeched.Sandro's roar shook the clearing. Warriors surged forward with him, weapons raised, claws extended. I prayed that whatever they wanted to do would get me out of this position.A shimmer cut through the air.The first warrior pushed towards us and flew backward, his body crumpling to the ground. Another tried. Same result. Giovanni shifted mid-leap and slammed into an invisible barrier between us so hard that I heard bones crack.Sandro shifted back to human form. “No, no, no!” He threw himself at the barrier. His face morphed into pain as his body bounced off. He tried again. And again. Each impact caused the barrier to vibrate but he didn't stop.My eyes welled up with tears. “Please stop,” I begged him.“Alpha, stop!” Trevor grabbed his arm. “You’ll hurt yourself!”“I don't give a fuck!” he wrenched free and charged again.The shield still stayed in place.Inside it, my eyed dart
Sofia.She stood before me with glowing eyes, just like Malachi's. Her face was pale, even paler than they had been before. I didn't want to accept it but deep down I knew, there might be no coming back from this point. “Sofia?” My voice cracked. “My goodness, what is he doing to you?”She didn't respond. Didn't even blink. Just stared at me with those hollow, possessed eyes. Sandro's roar echoed across the clearing. It was filled with pain and anger. Sofia shifted. Her wolf looked larger than it usually is, with patches of black rot spreading across its fur.Makayla surged forward without hesitation. I didn't have time to think, to plan. My mate's cousin, possessed or not, was trying to hurt me and I needed to save myself first.I tried to reach out to her wolf but it was no use. Our wolves collided mid air. The hard impact sent shockwaves vibrating through my body. Sofia's wolf was stronger than I remembered, fueled by dark magic that made her strikes devastating. “Elara, I'm com
“You two are really stupid, you know?” Malachi pointed out. “How could you create a ritual circle within my own ritual circle and not realise you're doing me a favour?”Horror washed over me. “What?’“I wasn't trying to stop your little reversal ritual.” His voice went far across the clearing. “I was feeding it. Every word you spoke, every drop of blood you spilled, you were powering MY ritual, not destroying it.”I looked at Sandro and saw my own terror reflected in his eyes.“The prophecy you tried to sever?” Malachi continued, pacing now like a professor giving a lecture. “That was never the anchor. YOU are the anchor. Two of the strongest fated mates in centuries, willingly pouring their powers into a ritual circle I created.” He spread his arms wide. “Thank you, by the way. You've made this so much easier than I anticipated.”“That's impossible,” Lady Thalia said, but her voice wavered. “The reversal ritual is ancient. Sacred. It can't be corrupted.”“And it wasn't. All I needed
Elara’s POVI couldn't even ask what we could do now that the ritual was cut shut as more souls suddenly poured into the clearing. My eyes couldn't take an accurate count but they looked to be about fifteen to twenty of them at the time. Dead eyes stared from grey faces.Lin gasped in fright. She thought we had gotten past the risen dead, I thought so too.“Malachi is hell bent on not allowing you complete the reversal,” Makayla noted in my head. She had been itching to come out all this time but the battle was one of spirit and soul which meant, my magic came in handy.I agreed with her, surveying the environment and wondering where the hell they came from. Folklore has it that the only way out of the Luna temple was the same way you came. How did they join us at the top? Pushing the thoughts away, I steadied my stance and brewed the magic between my fingertips. These ones were new but they looked just like the others had looked. Dead, dirty, with some broken bones and exposed flesh







