Page 65 of Fallen Heirs

Ore’s eyes shot wide. “She didwhat?No. No, no, no.”

I grasped his shoulder. “Orpheus, we thought you took her to safety.”

“What are you talking about? I wasn’t there. Nowhere near.”

“Then… but… how…” Talon stumbled. “Holy shit. She’s gone.”

Ore held up his hand before Tal went into a full-on panic. “Hold on, why did you think it was me?”

“One second she was there, the next she blinked out of sight,” I told him. “It had the mark of an illusion being used.”

“And you said she exposed her special ability?”

“Yeah,” Tal confirmed.

“Fuck,” Ore choked. “I know who has her. I know who took her.”

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~Saryan Hart~

Alena Rose was a threat to my kingdom.

She was a threat to every single wielder of dark magic throughout the supernatural world.

The damage she could do couldn’t even be fully quantified, it was so staggering.

She wasalsothe love of my son’s life.

Supremely difficult situationdidn’t quite cover it.

I’d encountered my fair share over the centuries of my rule.

However, this was unlike all the others that had come before.

Because of Orpheus.

And it pained me, especially with us becoming close again after years of unfortunate estrangement due to outside factors.

Now, yet again, those threatened to compromise our relationship.

At the same time, I couldn’t simply allow this to go unnoticed.

I couldn’t simply stand aside knowing someone with this highly dangerous ability existed.

Someone so young and unlearned too.

Someone who’d been tortured and traumatized, calling their stability into question.

Someone who desired vengeance on their tormentor. Their tormentor who was a dark magic being.

The ramifications were beyond catastrophic.

A heavy sigh escaped me as I stepped out of the room I’d just spent the last few hours within. Blood dripped from my hands and I was just about to clean them with a brief brush of magic when a rush of intense power had me stilling, then staggering in my step.

The same sort of rush that Abigail caused when she would force her way into my kingdom without any warning and expending a mass amount of power to make a point and her indomitable standing known—in her worst moments.

Recognizing the power signature instantly, I latched onto it and teleported out to its location on the bridge just feet from the entrance to the palace.

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