Moment of Truth by Edwards Hailey

Author:Edwards, Hailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Dog Books, LLC.
Published: 2021-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

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“Awaken.”

A moan slipped past my lips.

“Awaken.”

“Bite me.”

“Oh good.” Remy poked my cheek. “She’s okay.”

“Sarcasm isn’t an indication of well-being,” Midas argued. “She could sarcasm in her sleep.”

“The balance of power has shifted,” Ambrose said, his voice clear as a frakking bell. “She is fine.”

That snapped my eyes open, and I focused on the blur in front of me. “Midas?”

“I feel like I ate too much barbeque at a pack cookout.” He traced the curve of my cheek with his fingertip. “Except instead of stretching my stomach tight, I’m stuffed all over.”

“Same.” I gripped his wrist. “But are you okay?”

“The tether is severed.” He winced, as if even that light touch hurt. “For that, I can be okay.”

“Faegate,” I corrected him for the joy of watching him fight off a smile. “Like Stargate but fae-er.”

“A faegate?” A single huff escaped him, but he locked it down fast. “I see.”

“You need to ground the energy.” Remy lifted my hand, and it vibrated in hers. “You’re all jittery.”

Unlike Ambrose, I didn’t digest power. It wasn’t food to keep me going. It was fuel for performing magic. I had no immediate need for it, no particular use for it, and Midas was in worse shape. He had no outlet, no release valve to ease the pressure. His only magic expenditure was his natural talent of shapeshifting.

“Any idea how to do that?” I sat upright and took Midas’s hand, which shook even harder. “Quickly?”

Forehead pinched, she frowned at me. “How do you usually burn off the excess he pumps into you?”

“I almost die,” I confessed, cheeks growing warm. “Then he heals me.”

“Or she jumps on bombs,” Midas added dryly, “and he shields her from her poor life choices.”

The urge to thump him on the end of his nose surfaced, but I exercised restraint as a mature adult and let the insult pass unchallenged. And if I was mentally plotting revenge later, then we all needed our hobbies, didn’t we?

“You could fling yourself down the stairs.” Remy walked to the edge of this level. “That would do it.”

“We can’t see the bottom.” A growl rose in Midas. “It might kill her.”

“Hey,” she complained. “I didn’t say she ought to do it, I just said that would do it.”

A light dawned in Midas’s eyes, and he smoldered at me. “Would any physical exertion work?”

A smidge breathless, I leaned in. “What did you have in mind?”

“Ugh.” Remy hid behind her hands. “Please don’t emotionally scar me.”

“We turn the spiral into our very own Stairmaster.” He bounced on his toes, ready to run. “It might take a while to burn off the magic, but we have to empty our tanks for the next tether—I mean, faegate—right?”

“That’s less fun than what I had in mind, but it might work.” I located my shadow. “Ambrose?”

“I have not done cardio for cardio’s sake,” he mused. “This might prove entertaining.”

Exercise was not my idea of entertainment, but plenty of folks thought otherwise. “Do you think it will work?”

“Perhaps.” A dark curl in his featureless face indicated a smile.

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