Page 21 of Hidden Sacrifice
“How can she have a bond for me for a bond that I don’t have yet?” All this demon shit confused the fuck out of me sometimes.
“Demonlings exhibit powers of all mates, even those not initiated yet,” Justice said, appearing suddenly in the doorway, Jasper on his heels.
Great, this would attract attention for sure. I scooped Mor up as I bolted off the throne before my brother or anyone else saw.
“Let’s take this back to the bedroom if you all wouldn’t mind,” I suggested, setting Mor down so she could walk.
I headed out but was surprised again to see that there wasn’t anyone moving around the castle. Making it back to our rooms was like walking through a ghost town. Looking out the windows, I saw that it was near dawn. Most vampires would be headed to bed if they weren’t already, so maybe it wasn’t that abnormal for so few vampires to be out. Sunlight weakened our abilities as we fought to heal constantly, and our healing was nowhere as quick as demon healing.
Jax just said I would be a pack member one day.
Stepping into my room, I saw it was only my room by location, as all my personal belongings had been removed. A sizeable standard bed sat lonely in the space. I let out a deep sigh and found my heart ready to go home.
“Why don’t we go back to Hell? I got all I could get out of Az anyway.” Turning, I walked out of the room that I no longer felt any possession over.
I was going to become a vybred one day.
CHAPTER8
MORRIGAN
Jace seemed different. I couldn’t put my finger on it; maybe because his demeanor has bounced around so much, I sometimes don’t know what to expect. He was back to that happy, sweet Jace. I worried he was over projecting feelings of happiness to cover the fact that he was hurting about everything that had gone down lately.
“If I’m going to be part of the pack one day, I don’t understand why you won’t take this fucking thing off me.” I heard Jace yell at Jax again. They were in the war room, and I could hear them all the way in my room. Jace was happy and sweet to everyone except Jax, of course.
Jace had been arguing his case for the past week since we got back from the vampire kingdom. Jax always stated he would make no further alterations to the spell or its parameters. I was happy enough to be able to kiss. For now, at least. If the time came, I could press the matter if needed. But really, those two needed to figure their shit out.
Today was move back into the hunting cabin day. The past week of research yielded nothing. Jace had hoped to hear more from his angel friend. The information Jace had come back with wasn’t beneficial. The angel hadn’t even looked at the spells from the house, so that left us with idle hands. Time to get back to work.
“Wow, you can hear them down here?” Jasper said from my doorway. Even by demon hearing standards, they were being excessively loud.
I flopped down on the bed as Jasper stood contently watching me. “Why do you think they hate each other so much?”
He smiled, turning his head down the hallway toward the sound of the yelling and looking back at me, almost apologetically. “Honestly, I’m not sure. When we first found out he had kidnapped you, we imagined all the ways we could torture him. Once we found you, all that evaporated. For me at least.”
Watching him relive the memories from my time in the vampire realm, I acutely felt his emotions. They streamed from him into me, coating my skin. Well, I guess I fully came into another power. The hints of emotions I have felt before were nothing compared to this.
“I’m sorry, I forgot how you all must have felt towards him. If it makes you feel any better, he drives me insane.”
He gave me a knowing smile.
“Time to get going, right?” Justice said, peeking around Jasper. His bright smile made me feel happier as I could almost taste the excitement that poured off him.
“What are you so hyped up about?” I couldn’t even contain the manic grin across my face, mirroring his emotions.
He cocked his head to the side, amusement leaving his face, and finally, the waves of emotions stopped hitting me with such force. “You got a new power, Fox?”
Jasper whipped his head around to look at Justice and then back to me, clearly left out of this revelation.
“It just happened a moment before you arrived. When Jasper told me about his feelings when I was gone, the emotions covered me.” I smiled at Justice to let him know everything was fine; I just needed to get used to it more.
“Dibs on Mor for the day, new power training,” Justice yelled before taking off down the hallway, screaming the same thing for the other boys to hear.
Laughter bubbled from me as a strong wave of amusement emanated from Jasper as Jax and Jace united against Justice. All of them were yelling at each other in the hallway.
I didn’t exactly find this situation all that funny, but I was reacting to someone else’s emotions. Justice had a point; I needed some time with him immediately. Getting up from the bed and walking into the hallway, emotional bullets of anger hit me like knives.
“Sheila,”I yelled into their minds as I felt my feet give out from beneath me and my vision clouded over.
