Page 121 of My Eternal Light

She was relieved to see he was alone. “I can’t help them,” she cried.

Kendrick’s eyes swept the room and she saw the second he figured out what had been going on. “The Eirson women?”

She nodded.

He eyed the tubes. “There is nothing we can do to those monsters that will be enough to satisfy me,” he growled.

“Set us free,” another woman asked.

“We can easily take him out of here,” Kendrick began.

Meryn shook her head. “That’s not what they want.”

Kendrick straightened. “Let me discuss this with Brennus. We can help them,” he said, then jogged up the stairs.

Meryn chewed on her thumb.

“Gods above, is this what I think it is?”

Meryn turned. It was her Aunt Lily. “Aunt Lily, I have to do something, but it will be hard.”

“Are those their wombs?” Lily asked, all the color draining from her face.

Meryn nodded.

“The children?” she whispered.

Again, Meryn nodded.

“This was done by their own mates?” Lily asked, with a horrified expression.

Meryn froze. Then spun to the corner and threw up. She had never even made the connection. What kind of hell had these women had to endure at the hands of the very ones who would have sworn to keep them safe.

Lily rubbed her back as Ryuu lifted a water filled hand. She drank from it, swished her mouth, then spat it out on the floor.

“Aunt Lily, we have to set them free before Kendrick comes back. He wants to try and save them,” she explained.

Lily’s face hardened. “What can we do?”

Meryn looked around for a way to kill the women gently.

“I don’t have powers like Kincaid or the twins,” she said, feeling frustrated beyond measure.

“What would you want to do?” Ryuu asked lowly.

“Something quick and painless.”

“Use me.”

“Exsqueeze me?”

He held up her wrist that held his tattoo. “For once, use what I have given you.”

She scowled. “No. I swore I would never treat you like a chess piece.”

“I’m not a piece being maneuvered if I am begging you to let me help. Hurry, before heika returns and this option is gone for good.”

“A water blade, like Rheia told me about. Wide enough to sever the brain stem at the back of the neck.”

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