Page 111 of Fallen Heirs

It would finally be over.

“Stop!” he cried.

I scoffed. “You’re begging for mercy?”

“Can’t… kill me. Elliot’s… magic.”

“We have the pendant.”

“It’s… a decoy.”

His claim pulled me up short. “You’re lying, trying to spare your life.”

“Check. Check… with whoever… you sent… it to.”

“It doesn’t matter, once you’re gone, we’ll use Lenora to find it if we have to.”

“She… doesn’t… know.”

“More lies.”

“She has… celestial magic. Think I’d… trust her with that? Her power-hungry… nature. Now… having all that magic… she could… betray me. Needed… leverage.”

Motherfuck.This bastard.

I opened a mind-link to my father.

“Check the pendant. Hurry.”

“What’s happening?”

“Just check it.”

I pulled my magic back, still holding it at the ready, as I awaited my father’s answer.

“It contains just a flicker of his magic. It must be a decoy.”

“Fuck, it is. I—”

A blast of power slammed into my back, sending me hurtling into a tree a few feet from Constantine. I clawed at it to keep my balance and staggered around to see my mom bursting through the other side of the forest, ripping down trees and the brush to force her way through, her borrowed white magic destroying everything in her path.

“Kill… him,” Constantine ordered her, clutching himself as he laid there in the fetal position keening in agony.

Her eyes narrowed on me. “I warned you. You’ve left me no choice, Orpheus.”

In the next second, she thrust one of her palms forward, streaming her celestial magic at me.

I threw up my hand and caught it with my own, blasting back my own purple stream against her.

My hand shuddered under the insane power coming off her, power that wasn’t hers to wield.

“Stop,” I ground out, bringing my other palm into play and directing two streams at her one just to hold it off, even as my boots slipped and I had to dig my heels into the ground. “This won’t end well for you. You have a chance to do the right thing here. And this isn’t it,mother.”

“I’ve sacrificed everything to get where I am.” She gazed at the magic in awe. “All this power, I’ve been fighting for it my entire life. I’ll never give it up and I certainly won’t let you threaten that.”

“This power you crave so badly is killing you.”

“There are loopholes to everything.”

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