Never Never (The Grimm Files Book 5) by Selene Charles

Author:Selene Charles [Charles, Selene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SeleneCharlesPublishing
Published: 2021-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

Elle

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“Arielle, go!” the Hag yelled, shoving a hand into my chest. We’d just been practicing another spell, sweat poured down my brows. Exhaustion rode me hard.

“What?” I shook my head. “Go where?”

“They need you, go now!”

I cried out in shock as I was suddenly and violently thrown backwards, sucked into a powerful cyclone. I gasped, trying to breathe through the whirling winds, feeling like I might die from the lack of oxygen. I clutched at my throat. Had she betrayed me after all?

Was this my end?

And then… I was out of the dreaming. Blinking my eyes in stunned silence as the world I hadn’t seen in so long came jarringly into focus.

Each sense coming on one at a time. First sounds. Screams and the crackling of flames. Next smell. The stench of charred flesh and burning grass. Then sight.

I was in deep water, and floating beside me with his eyes closed was Crowley. But he was not awake. Air bubbles escaped his lips, and I could not hear the telltale steady beating of his heart.

He was also not the Crowley I knew.

Only his scent and the build of his body was familiar. His face had been transformed. There was little flesh left and the river was dyed red with his blood.

Swimming toward him, I cupped his cheek in my hand and kissed him. Gifting him breath from my own body.

Instantly, his chest inhaled and he blinked.

His hands found my wrists and he held me gently to him, curving his cheek into my palm.

Bubbles floated from his lips and I heard my name spill out in a watery sigh. I nodded.

I knew I would not remain long, already I could feel the pull of the dreaming tugging at me. The Hag would not let me out of that place until she’d crammed all her knowledge into my head. I knew there was a greater purpose, but seeing him like this, I was struggling to remember what it was. I should be here with them.

Whatever this prophecy was, whether true or not, the consequences of the faithful were deadly serious.

Wrapping my arms around his middle, I began to swim us up, but I could see threads of green fire dancing above the water line. Faery flame. No wonder he looked as he did. My heart clenched at the thought of the pain they must have been in.

Even I could feel the sting of that deadly flame and I knew they’d shielded my body from the worst of it.

I swam us to a section that was clear, and only then broke the surface. It was scary realizing how deep into the dreaming I really had been, I’d not even had an inkling of the war they’d been going through.

He gasped. “Elle,” he groaned and I could feel the tremors racing through him. He planted his head on my shoulder, large body trembling with both relief and fatigue. I wrapped my arms around him feeling the slickness of blood on my palms, taking a second to hug him.

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