Page 51 of My Dark Obsession
The drunk bear roared his irritation at me, and I grinned. I was brewing for a fight. And what better time than now.
I stalked forward, wrapped my vines around his body and threw him to the street.
I rolled my shoulder, inhaled deeply on my smoke and allowed the change to take over. Smoke expelled slowly through each gap of my bones as my skeleton form stood in my glowing blue flame.
I had been stupid revealing myself to her. It had been weak of me.
Now that our skin had touched, my mark had awoken on her back and the pull would be even stronger.
I now just needed to decide if I was going to continue to fight it and watch her from the shadows…
Or take what was now rightfully mine.
Seventeen
‘Acceptance Of Mine-Acceptatio Mea’
Amaya
I sat on the floor and watched the lit candle roll towards the puddle of alcohol that had been dripped onto the floor. The liquid caught aflame as Rí’s yell muffled in the background and roars of a shifted animal echoed in anger.
Another fucking Mate. That was what…three now? Wasn’t that practically impossible? I had one overbearing Dragon shifter, a White witch who hated me as much as I disliked him and Deaths fucking warrior. Were these Fates Above having a laugh at me? Was I some sort of entertainment to them?
The flame began to crawl towards me, following the patten of the drip as I blinked at it, trying to settle my busy thoughts.
Someone really should put that fire out; it was going to create a disaster. I looked around the now chaotic bar as Rí shoved shifted animals out of his way to get to me.
My eyes slowly turned back to the flame that had grown into a full-blown fire; it climbed up the chair I had been sat in and as the heat began to burn, the smoke pulled a small cough from me.
Fuck.
That fire really needed to be put out. Likenow.
As quickly as I thought it, the flames diminished. Gone just like that. No smoke, no charred wood, no scorching heat.
The fuck?
I looked around once more. Rí had his head tilted at me a small grin pulling at his mouth as he shoved the last wolf out of his way. He knelt down on one knee and offered me his big hand.
“Ye’ did amazing Wee one.”
“What?” I asked with a snap.
“Ye’ put the fire out.”
Um, no I hadn’t. I would have known if it was me. Wouldn’t I?
I stood up and brushed my hands off on my jeans, ignoring the dragon’s outstretched hand.
“That man—” I began but stopped and gave Rí my death stare.
“Why are you avoiding my eyes…”
“His name is Ziel. He’s one of ye’ Mates. My Circle brother.”
Okay so how the hell had he known that? He was the other side of the bar when he touched me and even then, the man, Ziel, hadn’t said a word about our Circle marks. Come to think of it, he hadn’t seemed all that surprised.
I was missing something surely.
