Page 161 of Sapphire Flame
She drew her wolf close to her. “I can see you, Kryder, even though you have an invisibility spell of your own. So why not show yourself? I know you have my friend with you as well. What have you got to lose?”
“Where’s the wolf?”
“What wolf? You mean Grant? At Meldorin, I suppose. I keep checking the future, to see where you are, and I knew you’d be here. You and I need to talk.”
“You need to come with me, Natalie. I’ve waited for this for a long time. If you come with me, I vow I’ll never touch Grant again. If not, I’m planning an assault on Meldorin in the next hour that will demolish the compound. Your choice.”
“I won’t deny I’m tempted. But first, I want to know why you had to make me analterfae. Why was I so important?”
Maybe it was the subject, or that she kept as relaxed a posture as she could manage, but Kryder suddenly stepped out of his spell and moved toward her. He held Alexis with a manacled chain so that if she tried to escape, she wouldn’t get very far.
Natalie had only one goal, to get Kryder as far from Alexis as she could so that when Grant made his move, Alexis would be left behind with Agnes. With Agnes’s security system, by now she would have seen Alexis as well.
As Kryder tugged at the chain, Natalie laughed at him. “This is the best you can do? Keeping a woman on a leash like a dog?”
Her scoff had the effect she wanted and Kryder threw the chain on the ground and walked toward her. Alexis, now trembling, stayed where she was.
His heavy features took on a sneer. “What I want to know, Natalie, is why you’re so damn cocky? What are you doing here? Alexis and I looked into the future and we saw you here, alone, and taunting me. No guards, no Alpha, no nothing. Don’t you know I could snap you in half with little more than a thought?” His lips turned down in a disgusted grimace.
He was at least three times her size and what he’d said was true. But all she saw was the monster that had killed her husband and daughter. She lifted her chin. “What fun would that be, asshole?”
Saliva leaked between his lips as he sped the few yards between them. He grabbed hold of her arms with both hands. The moment he did, Grant pulled them into his dreamglide performing the dematerialization process with apparent ease.
At almost the same time, he sent the dreamglide onto a northern trajectory and the impossible craft shot through the air. Natalie had already sent word to Agnes to take Alexis into the compound.
In his surprise, Kryder released her. “What the hell is this?”
Neither of them responded. By prior agreement, Natalie switched places with Grant.
The dreamglide felt like a ship to her and as Grant turned over the mental controls, her bond with him allowed her to continue the flight plan.
They were bound for Alaska. In September, at this hour, it would already be light.
He’s all yours,she sent to Grant mind-to-mind.
Just get us to the ice fields.
That’s the plan.
