Page 44 of Blood Lust
“How do I fix this?” I asked, looking at Cole.
Cole’s lips twisted, turning to Edgar for answers. “What the hell is going on with her? She can’t have blood on her hands like this, she’ll never be able to live with herself.”
“He’s right,” I felt my heart breaking at what I’d done. “I have to reverse it.” I started thinking—because obviously thinking was what was dropping people like flies in front of me. I was off the charts with some mental power, and I was using it on the wrong fucking people.
“She can’t reverse death,” Edgar’s eyes grew distant. “That would ignite evil in her, and then she’ll never be able to control this, it’ll just grow—”
“Goddamnit, mother fucker,” Braden vamped up in front of Edgar. “Tell us how to help her.”
“She has to be drained—”
Edgar was cut off by the shattering of glass and a dead shifter as it prowled into the room we were in. One by one, red-eyed beasts and dead people flooded into the room and surrounded us.The Shifted.
“Now would be the time to use your little mental magic tricks, dollface,” Logan said, eyes black and ready to charge at the snarling freaks.
Out of sheer frustration, I wished they’d all disappear to some deserted island and get the fuck out of our way so we could fix what the hell was going on with me. I couldn’t deal with this right now. Was I freaked out? Goddamn right I was, and I wanted this fixed before one of the wolves we merged with smarted off and I accidentally killed them too. I was amped up on a crazy amount of power, and I could feel it consuming me. My moods were violently shifting, and I couldn’t fucking think straight.
As the thought entered my head, the group of dead shifters and all those fighting them were literally gone in an instant.Shit!Roman and all the vamps from his and Lucas’s coven had vanished into thin air along with them.
“Holy fucking Christ!” Lucas said in a snarl, then held his hands up at me. “Elle, you’ve got to fucking chill out. Let us think.” He looked at Edgar, “Anything helps right now. What needs to be done to get her under control?”
“She must be drained,” Edgar snarled. “It’s the only way.”
“Drained?” Zac’s bronze eyes zeroed in on Edgar’s angered expression. “We’re not fucking draining our girl. Help us figure out a way to tame her.”
“Desiccation is the only way until we can find a solution,” Edgar glared at Zac.
“She’s been a fucking vampire for a total of like seventeen minutes, and now we’re going to drain her to the point of paralysis?” Logan said. “Fuck that and fuck you.” He leaned over to me and whispered, “You can will that helpless mother fucker dead now too.”
“I’m not doing anything. Can I kill the witch and Enzo while I have this shit in my system?”
“No,” Edgar said flatly. “You can alter things only in a certain area of where you are right now.”
“Alter things?” I questioned.
“Yes, or kill them,” he said, watching me closely.
“Can I cloak this place so my dear old dad doesn’t hone into this power, and so that witch can’t find us?”
“Yes,” he answered. “Carefully think when and if you do this.” Edgar exhaled, “It is important that you are specific with what you request.”
“Hold up,” Bren looked up at me, leaving Shane’s dead body for Nakia to deal with. “How is this okay now?”
Zane rose up next. “He’s right. You both waltz in here in a fucking rage, telling us how we fucked everything up, Elle starts dropping people like flies,nowyou’re okay with her willing this place to be cloaked?”
“Asshole doesn’t have the power to do it,” Nakia simply stated.
Good to know the wolves weren’t ready to desiccate Elle just yet, that or rip my throat out.
“True,” Edgar answered. “I can’t tap into any more magic until the dark magic I used to save all of you from the Shifted has subsided.”
“Fair enough,” Braden growled. “What does she need to do? Can you chant some shit out and get her mind focus on making that happen?”
“Time is of the essence,” Cole said. “But Elle’s life is more important. Are you trying to say if she fucks this up, she can fuck us all up?”
“She can literally pull us out of this dimension if she isn’t careful,” Edgar answered. “Her powers are so strong, energy so potent, that anything she says or does with us in a certain mile radius goes with what she wishes.”
“Okay, so now that you all know you created a goddamn genie with your girl, let’s let her focus,” Lucas finally interjected. “After this, we need to handle shit and figure out where the fuck she sent my coven and my fucking boyfriend.”
