บททั้งหมดของ The Nanny and the Four Alphas: บทที่ 61 - บทที่ 70

ThomasAdrian’s laughter echoed through the mine.I was officially starting to hate caves.Actually, I was starting to hate magic in general, which felt unfair considering Olivia was apparently made of the stuff, but nothing good had happened since glowing gold shit entered our lives.Titan agreed.Magic bad.Mate is magic.A pause.Magic mostly bad.Fair enough.The red symbols spread across the sealed gate like veins, and Cassian stumbled backward. Ethan immediately pulled Olivia with him, putting his body between her and the stone.“Where is Adrian?” Logan demanded.Cassian turned toward the tunnel. “Close.”“That’s helpful,” Jeremy muttered.Lily was still with him near the entrance, wrapped in Ethan’s shirt and looking far too small for any of this. Jeremy had one hand on her shoulder.I looked at my twin.He understood immediately.Get Lily out.His expression hardened.I’m not leaving.Neither is she staying.He looked down at Lily.That ended the argument.Jeremy crouched. “He

OliviaBy the time we got out of the mine, I had a list.Not an actual list, because I didn’t have paper and my phone was somewhere back at the Hawthorn house, but mentally? There was a list.Ethan was Maximus.Logan was Brutus.Jeremy was Helios.Thomas was Titan.My father had once accidentally helped weaken a magical gate because a psychopath convinced him he could bring my mother back. My grandmother was apparently the psychopath’s even more terrifying boss. Cassian had spent twenty years keeping me hidden, Seraphina had accidentally helped Adrian find my mother, and somewhere in the middle of all that, I’d acquired four boyfriends who had neglected to mention that I had petted two of them.Ethan was never recovering from that one.Then I stepped outside and found Jeremy standing half naked beside a seven-foot-tall stranger covered in glowing silver symbols.I stopped.“No.”Jeremy blinked. “No what?”“Whatever that is.”The stranger’s eyebrows lifted.“I have reached my daily lim

EthanThe lights went out two seconds after Ronan told us Morgana only had to kill one of us.Perfect fucking timing.Maximus surged so hard beneath my skin that my claws punched through my fingertips. I couldn’t see Olivia, but I could feel her through the bond, and right now that mattered more than anything else.Olivia?I’m here.Her answer came immediately.Then Brutus.Logan.Titan.Thomas.Helios.Jeremy.Four anchors.Still alive.Still connected.I reached blindly until my hand found Olivia’s arm. She jerked, then relaxed when she realized it was me.“It’s me.”“Please tell me this is a normal power outage.”Something crashed in the hallway.“No.”“Of course not.”Gold suddenly flickered beside me.Olivia’s palm began glowing.She stared at it.“Well, that’s convenient.”The light spread enough to reveal Logan on her other side, Thomas and Jeremy moving toward us and Ronan standing exactly where he’d been before the room went dark.Dad had Mom and Lily behind him.Cassian was

ThomasOne second Olivia had both hands twisted in my shirt.The next, I was standing in a forest.That wasn’t the strangest part.The strangest part was Titan wasn’t with me.For as long as I could remember, he’d been there. Sometimes quiet, sometimes irritatingly opinionated, but always a second presence inside my head. Now there was nothing except a silence so complete that panic hit me before I could stop it.“Titan?”Nothing.I turned in a circle. Enormous silver trees surrounded me, their branches woven together so tightly I couldn’t see the sky. Mist curled around my ankles, and somewhere in the distance, water rushed over rocks.“Olivia?”A woman laughed.I knew that laugh.Morgana.“Show yourself.”“You really are the quiet one.”Her voice came from everywhere.I clenched my fists. “Give me back my wolf.”“Oh, Thomas. I haven’t taken him.”“Then where is he?”“Exactly where you left him.”The forest shifted.Suddenly I could see the family room.My body was on the floor.Oliv

OliviaMy dead mother had just called my name from underneath the Hawthorns’ house.A week ago, that sentence would have earned me a psychiatric evaluation.Today, it barely made the top five weirdest things that had happened to me.“Elara?” I whispered.Cassian caught my arm before I could move toward the basement.“No.”I looked at his hand.Then at him.He released me immediately.Progress.“If that is my mother, I’m going down there.”“Elara is dead.”“I know that.”The words hurt more than I expected.The voice came again.“Olivia, sweetheart. Don’t be afraid.”My eyes burned.I remembered that voice. Not perfectly. Time had taken pieces of my mother from me no matter how desperately I’d tried to hold on, but I remembered enough.“It isn’t her,” Cassian said quietly. “Not alive.”Ronan stepped toward the basement. “A memory.”That stopped me.“What?”“Aurelia stored memories in the earth. If Elara inherited the ability, she may have done the same.”Thomas looked down at the silve