Requiem (Blackwater Pack Book 5) by Hannah McBride

Author:Hannah McBride [McBride, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

8

LULU

Normally hanging out with some of my favorite humans on the face of the earth breathed life into me.

But not tonight.

After a meeting where nothing was really accomplished except leaving me feeling even shittier than before, I was ready to call it a damn night. Sometimes a girl needed to embrace her inner regency heroine, and right now all I wanted was to take to my bed.

Maybe a week of sleep would give me clarity as to how I’d managed to spectacularly fuck things up.

“Does that make any sense?”

Addie’s question yanked me from the stupor I’d been in, and I forced myself to refocus. Where were we again?

Oh, right.

Discussing the elemental who had slipped past my wards—wards that I’d set up to protect this land and these people.

And all it took was one power spirit elemental to remind me of how pathetically outmatched I was. I sank deeper into the couch in the family living room, the large space had a ton of seating and was designed for comfort.

Clearing my throat, I channeled all my efforts into staying present for this conversation, even though it felt like chewing glass.

Looking into Addie’s bright green eyes, I tried not to wince at the protective arm Nikolai had wrapped around his mate. Or the way she so effortlessly leaned against him to absorb his strength. What would it be like to have that unerring support and love?

Dimitri shifted against me, his skin brushing mine and setting off a cascade of goosebumps and longing. Biting the inside of my cheek, I tried to shift away, but he seemed as drawn to me as Nikolai was to Addie.

“Lu?” he murmured, his tone soft enough for only me to hear as his gaze collided with mine.

Shit. My brain had wandered off again, and I repeated Addie’s question in my head: Does that make any sense?

“Not really,” I finally answered, the admission tasting like ash on my tongue. “But we don’t know a lot about spirit elementals. I mean, all I’ve heard are the horror stories about how awful they are.”

How awful I was. Because there was no denying that half of my magic was rooted in chaos and death.

“I thought there weren’t many of those,” Skye said gently, almost like she knew I was close to breaking. “Didn’t you say most were killed a long time ago?”

“That’s what I was told,” I replied, realizing how pathetic it was that the only thing I knew about half of my biology was monster stories my coven had told me. “But who really knows?” I could still see the disgust and horror etched on my mother’s face the few times she’d spoken of my father. Of how he’d used his magic to seduce and exile her from her family until the coven stepped in and saved her.

Unease churned in my gut as I remembered there was someone else here I could ask. “I think it’s time I started pressing Jack more about his family. He made it seem like

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