Twisted Bond by Katlyn DeRouen

Author:Katlyn DeRouen [DeRouen, Katlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gilded Rose Press
Published: 2023-10-17T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One

SABINA

Sabina felt a sudden heaviness in her hands.

With slow movements, she looked down, breath in her throat. Where there once was nothing, she now held a circular shield.

Sabina dropped the object, and it disintegrated into the floor, completely gone.

Cammie’s hands shook. “What happened?” she blurted. She whipped around to Sabina. “How did you get that? How did I even—” Looking down at her hands with horror, Cammie stopped speaking.

“You are your father’s daughters,” Solenne uttered with pride. She laid still, but the smile was clear on her face as was the pain in the twinge of her eyes. “You healed the wound. What you could.... The interior damage is too great. But cosmetically...you healed.” Solenne turned to Sabina. “And as for you...you channeled a weapon from that same light.”

“Impossible,” James breathed. “No one of our kind can summon gifts like this. Healing from nothing? Not even a remedy? And you...” His frightened, astonished eyes lingered on Sabina for a moment too long. “You summoned a weapon from nothing, out of emotion. As powerful as we are, we can only conjure from what’s physically there. But this...”

“...is the prophecy unfolding before our eyes,” Solenne finished softly, the glee in her eyes undiminished.

“But there’s supposed to be three,” James countered. “Where’s the third?”

Solenne coughed again, but this time, no blood rushed to the surface. “I told you who she was. How are you not so quick to believe after everything I’ve shown you?”

Cosmic horror catapulted across Cammie’s face. “You can’t be telling me that Hannah is one of you guys? That we are.... Amarian? It doesn’t make any sense.”

Sudden yelling from outside jolted their attention.

Sabina slowly stood. “What’s going on out there?”

James moved and went closer to the window, sparing a glace back to the three women. “The fight’s getting worse. More guys joined to help Caelan, but I don’t know who they are.” He faced the window again, his fist clenching at his side.

Sabina walked to where James was standing, an incredulous smile on her lips. “It’s Hannah’s crew, the one she’s been talking to us about forever. I met them earlier. They’re good guys...albeit a little scary at first, but they mean well.”

She could make out the faint outline of guys fighting in the dark. The one who was quick to judge her at first—Will—dodged a snarling wolf full of teeth, doing a quick spin in the air before landing on the wolf’s back, plunging a dagger into their skin. The sharp howling whine ricocheted through the house, and Will smiled, wiping his weapon clean on his shirt before charging at the next one.

“Are you ready, Sabina?” James asked, a smile tugging at his lips.

She was almost knocked off her feet. “Ready for what? If you want to go help them, by all means...” She gestured at the chaos outside with a grim frown.

“We,” James corrected. “We are going to help them.”

“We?” Sabina sputtered. “What in the world are you talking about?”

“What you did could have been a trick of the eye, but if this is really a gift you have.

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