Page 72 of My Eternal Light

“Was painting that hard?” Kincaid asked.

Aeson stared. “Painting? Painting! We were keeping the house from falling apart!” he yelled.

Kincaid frowned. “Huh?” He looked around. “Oh, no.”

“What?”

Kincaid was bright red. “The ones resting? Are witches.”

“Okay?”

“My magic, when we, um…”

“Oh. Oh!” she thought about what they had done, then grinned. “Yeah, that’s about right.”

Heath just chuckled from his chair, which set off Ian and Carson.

Kincaid just buried his face in his arms. “Thank you, for saving the house,” he said, sounding muffled.

Aeson sputtered a few more seconds then started laughing.

They were still laughing when Kincaid’s phone went off. He looked down, then up at Aeson.

Aeson stopped laughing. “What?”

“I’ve been ordered to the palace, immediately.” He paled. “You don’t think it’s about?” He pointed upstairs.

Aeson was about to respond when his phone went off. He read his text. “Go. Run! Units, head to the villa and gear up!” he ordered.

Kincaid took her hand, and they did exactly that. They ran.

Chapter Ten

Kincaid held onto Zadie’s hand tightly as they hit the queen’s chamber doors at a run. Once inside, he got the full scope of how serious the situation was.

The queen along with Rex and Jedrek Lionhart were huddled together talking to Portia and Molvan. He caught words like ‘emergency broadcast’ and Molvan was pointing to something on his iPad. “The Border City town square is the only place large enough to take incoming.”

He kept walking, his eyes looking for the one person he knew could tell him what was going on. He found Meryn at a huge makeshift workstation outside her bat cave. It looked like they had taken three six-foot tables and made a ‘U’ shape for her to sit at. Behind her the twins were sitting at their own six-foot tables completing the cubicle.

Kincaid would have thought Meryn was stuck inside, but he watched as Ryuu glided through the one-foot walk way to hand Meryn a bottle of water.

Water?

Meryn took it and nodded. She opened the cap and downed half a bottle.

Kincaid felt sick to his stomach. Meryn was willingly drinking water. It was bad.

“Meryn, where do you need me?” he asked, steering Zadie into a nearby chair. He tried to give his mate a smile of reassurance, but judging from the skeptical look she gave him, he didn’t think he did very well.

“Kincaid, move over to where Kendrick is. You’ll be going in with them, main building,” Meryn replied, adjusting the mic on her headset.

Kincaid walked over to where Kendrick, Thane, Justice and Law were watching Meryn carefully.

“How bad?” he asked.

Law looked tense. “I’ve never seen her like this, and we had a nuclear scare once.”

Kendrick with his eyes still on Meryn replied. “She found the last warehouse.”

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