Jinn's Dominion by Shannon Mayer

Author:Shannon Mayer [Mayer, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781987933437
Publisher: Hijinks Ink Publishing
Published: 2018-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The Ice Witch was right. I didn’t like her answer. And even though we were in a dream world, I couldn’t pretend that it was only a dream answer. I felt it in my bones.

Saying there was no untangling a Jinn from his herd sounded weird, and I let that weirdness keep me from absorbing the rest of what it meant. Her words settled into me slowly and I repeated them to myself under my breath before I let it reach the front of my mind.

Maggi was saying there was no way to save Maks. That he was lost to me. To us. That his freedom from a fate where he would absorb all his father would come only on his death.

As quickly as the understanding hit me, I balked.

No, I refused to believe that. There was always a way to save someone. Like Bryce. Like Darcy.

I clamped my teeth together, took a sharp breath between them, and shook my head before I spoke. “Nope. That’s not the answer I want. Fuck you, that is not the only answer!”

Lila grunted. “Me neither. We can find a way to save him. If anyone can, it’s us.”

Maggi smiled, but it was sad and full of a deep pain. “I believed I could save someone once. I believed I could save the man I loved. I could not, Zamira, and I am a powerful witch. You have power, but not the kind that could break spells. Your mother was a weak shifter with a fierce fire in her belly—the same fire you carry and that has brought you this far. You saw her. She died for love and it gave you nothing but a childhood without her.”

The words were like slaps. I took several steps back from her until I was no longer in the desert dream and once more stood inside her room with the fire crackling. My body slept. I could feel it resting while I sought the answers I needed in this dream world.

Lila let out a hiss and her tail lashed a warning. “You said you would help us. All you’re doing is being mean.”

“The truth often hurts, Lila,” Maggi said, not unkindly. “That is not my fault. I am but a messenger.”

I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t know what to do. Part of me wallowed with indecision rearing its ugly fucking head.

I wanted nothing more than to kill Marsum, but if I did, then Maks would be bound in ways I could never free him from, unless I was willing to kill him too. But if I let Marsum live, Maks would never be free either. There was no winning this new game laid in front of me.

I shook my head. “I won’t give up on him. I won’t.”

“Me either,” Lila said. “He called me his sister. Family sticks it out through the worst. Even if he thinks we’ve abandoned him, we’ll keep on hunting for a way to free him.”

Thank the desert gods Lila saw and felt the same as I did—I was not sure I could find all those words in that moment.

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