He reached for me, but I stepped back, shaking my head. “Let’s finish this first.” I held the clasped the compact between my hands, conjuring fire to run through my veins until my hands heated.
“Dream to dream,veil to veil
“I unmake the path, I choose the trail
“Light remembers, shadows forget
“You are unspoken, and our world resets.”
As I finished,all the adrenaline rushed out of me, and King and Booker each caught an arm as I stumbled forward. King kissed the side of my head. “You did it, sweetheart.”
Booker squeezed my arm. “You saved us.”
Feeling thankful and so very grateful this nightmare was done, I said, “Patchy, home.”
I wokeup snuggled in King’s arms with the feeling of sunshine on my face. Had I slept in after all of that?
“King,” I mumbled.
“Oh, thank the goddess, Sky.” He squeezed me tighter to his chest.
“What’s wrong? What time is it?” I blinked my eyes open to find everyone standing over the blow-up mattress, staring down at me with various expressions of concern and happiness. “Did something else happen?”
Chance threw his hands up in the air. “The man’s been asleep for twelve hours straight, scaring me half to death, and he wants to know ifsomething elsehappened. Like what he did last night wasn’t enough.”
“Twelve hours?” I shook my head, trying to pull my brain online. If it had been that long, what was Sky’s boss or Carli and Cassi doing here? Or Jetty, for that matter. He’d already taken off work yesterday.
“Mhm,” Elyse said, dropping down next to me and smoothing my hair back off my forehead. “You really tuckered yourself out.”
“Will it always be like that?” I asked, my gaze moving from her to Rosie.
“No, dear. I’m not sure your body was quite ready to contain all that power. We usually work up to that.”
King’s arms tightened around me. “You were magnificent, Sky.”
I huffed. “Thank you, but I couldn’t have done it without Ego.”
My cousin blinked, dropping down to sit at my feet. “What do you mean?”
“I heard that song you made up for us when we were teenagers. Do you remember the one?”
“It’slike we’re twins, you and me.
“They can’t see that you belong to me.
“You’re truly my brother from another mother.
“And it’s your love that carries me.
“Don’t ever leave me,brother of mine.
“My world would cease to shine.
“So always fight, to come back to me.
“And together, we’ll fight to be free,” he sang.
“Yes. That one. I heard it.”I coughed, and Harry appeared with a glass of water.
