Page 77 of The Fate of Eternity

“If you don’t want to talk about it yet, then you don’t have to,” Brody insists, making me smile as I shake my head.

“I’m good. We do need to talk about it. I’m just not in the best zone to find all of the right words,” I admit. “The light… I remember it from one other time in my life,” I start, avoiding their watchful stares as I look down at my lap. “It happenedthe night Kenner took my ears,” I add, a shiver running up my spine and making my pointed tips tingle at the memory. “I didn’t realize the light was coming from me at the time. I didn’t realize much about it at all until earlier, but when our magic connected, it came to life again, like it was protecting me. Just like it had all those years ago.”

“I’m sorry you had to go through that, Princess,” Kryll murmurs, his hands twitching as if he wants to reach out for me, but the comforting will have to wait in case our long-overdue guests join us.

“It’s okay. When our magic connected, the memory from that night played out in my mind, only this time, I wasn’t blinded by the light. I saw everything; crisp and clear. You were there,” I state, turning to Cassian, who frowns.

“I was where?”

“At the castle that night.”

“No, I wasn’t,” he grunts, his defenses rising as I shake my head.

“You don’t remember, and you won’t because your father made it so.” His brows furrow deeper as my words linger in the air. “You tried to stop him,” I admit, a sad smile tainting the corner of my mouth as I intertwine my fingers. “You tried to stop him from getting Nora. You defied him, and I’m sure you can guess how well he took that.”

He stares at me, his jaw slightly slack as disbelief washes over him. “I don’t remember.”

“And I’m glad you don’t,” I insist. “I felt a connection to you that night,” I add, wanting him to understand the best I can. “I couldn’t explain it, and I still wouldn’t be able to now, but I felt it deep in my veins. A tug pulled me toward you just as fiercely as it screamed for me to protect my sister.”

“Maybe your heart knew he was your mate. Well, the wolf one,” Brody states, a wink accompanying his play on words.

I hum in acknowledgment. That would make sense.

“Did anyone else have a vision when our magic collided?” I ask, receiving four blank stares in response. I nod in understanding when another thought comes to mind. “There was also a woman,” I explain, bending my knees as I wrap my arms around them protectively.

“A woman? The same one who led us to you?” Brody asks, and I shake my head, recalling what she looked like.

“No. She was… technically in the cell beside me—until she wasn’t, “ I say, earning four confused stares.

“You’re going to have to explain that a little more, Alpha,” Cassian grunts, scrubbing at the back of his neck, and I nod.

“She was in the cell beside me with her back turned to me for ages. Then she apparently could sense I was overthinking, and she started to talk about herself cryptically.”

“Did she say anything exciting?” Raiden asks, a bored tone on his tongue as he tries to see the point of her, and I shake my head.

“Not really. She talked about wanting to be a leader, her family abandoning her after treating her like a princess, and how an amethyst kiss of death works, but when the soldiers came to take me to The Council members, she was gone.”

“Gone?”

“Yeah, and I even asked the soldiers to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind. They made it clear that I was because no other prisoners were being held in those cells.”

It sounds dumb now that I’m saying it out loud.

Raiden clears his throat, glancing at the others before turning back to me. “Maybe it was?—”

“She appeared in my vision too,” I interject, refusing to accept the fact that I might be delusional.

“In your vision?” Brody repeats, and I sigh.

“Yes. She said something like, ‘You’re welcome,’ before I was slammed back into the present. That’s when I started to glow,” I grumble, waving my hands up and down the length of my body.

“That glow bit was fucking hot, I’m not going to lie,” Raiden says with a contented sigh. It should surprise me, but in reality, it’s just so freaking Raiden that it’s impossible to shock me.

“What did it feel like?” Kryll asks as I spy Raiden adjusting his dick beneath his pants.

Opting to distract from his growing length, I focus on my dragon.

“It felt out of control,” I state, and as usual, he doesn’t push or nudge for me to continue, he simply gives me the wide berth I need to find my words. “It was controlling me, not the other way around. I wanted to kill those fuckers and teach them a lesson, but the light was hell-bent on using all of my energy to protect everyone.”

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