A Shade of Vampire 85: A Shard of Soul by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Nightlight Press
Published: 2020-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

SOUL

“Dammit!” I cursed under my breath, hidden inside an interdimensional pocket. As soon as the green fires had been lit, I’d slipped into my safe space and away from the realm of the living. In here, it was dark and quiet and protected.

But it was also lonely, because I’d left Kelara out there. No. No, she’d left herself out there. She’d stepped up despite my ardent request for her not to. “What the hell was she thinking?”

I knew exactly what she was thinking. There was no way I’d let her get trapped like that. I would’ve joined her under that blanket of pure energy and pressure. The spirits had all but guided us to this place. The eye runes had seen us even in our subtle forms. Corbin had been expecting us. We knew that. We’d known it before we’d even set foot in this place.

“She sacrificed herself so I wouldn’t have to,” I muttered, pacing through the dark space.

What good did that do? I couldn’t get the rest of my fellow Reapers involved because they all had important tasks of their own to deal with. Taeral was out of sight and off limits for now… The threat came on multiple fronts and from different angles and protecting Valaine superseded everything else. We were here on our own, and we’d accepted that going in.

I felt like a coward hiding in here while Kelara was out there with Corbin’s boot basically pressed against her throat. Finally, after some more pacing, I found my resolve. Kelara had snuck into my soul somehow. The bond between us was alive and strong, and I had never felt like this before—or maybe I had prior to my Reaper days, eons ago. Now that we’d grown so close, I couldn’t bring myself to imagine losing her. Kelara meant something to me, and I needed time to figure it all out. But what time did I have if Corbin had trapped her?

None whatsoever.

Kelara had pushed me into this corner because she knew I’d fight back. She knew I wouldn’t let this stand. Perhaps that was why she’d even kissed me earlier. To drive her point home. To further strengthen our bond. To make it impossible for me to stay away from her. “Dammit!”

I walked out of the interdimensional pocket. All it took was one step, and I was back in the world of the living, standing on the edge of the green fire circle. It was a powerful locking spell. It pinned Kelara down. It stopped her from casting her death magic and prevented telepathic communications, as well. Corbin stood right beside her, smiling, his eerie scythe shining with what I imagined to be excitement.

Angry, I opened my mind to reach out to Taeral. I knew he’d hear me, whether he wanted to or not. “Get your scrawny ass out here, right now!” I hissed. As if summoned, he stepped out of the woods, invisible to the living. He was certainly getting the hang of Thieron’s minor magic spells, so he had that going for him.

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