Wolf Destinies (Rocky Mountain Pack Book 4) by Lucia Ashta

Author:Lucia Ashta [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

BRUNO

Once Naya and Meiling arrived at the Huddle, Albacus and Mordecai didn’t delay in asking the two women if they had reached a decision. Now that the brothers had composed a definitive plan on how to merge the two sisters’ energy fields, they were uncharacteristically eager to get started—no long-winded, convoluted back-and-forth arguments about this, that, or the other.

It figured. The one time Bruno wanted them to draw things out, they were steamrolling toward the inevitable.

Naya had refused to meet Bruno’s piercing gaze as she’d announced to the entire Rocky Mountain Pack and their guests that she was going to do the merge. If there was a way for her to spare others from the suffering Cassia inflicted, she said it was her duty to do her part.

Cheers, applause, hell-yeahs, and go-Nayas rang out across the communal center. Bruno and Maverick remained tight-lipped. Clove openly scowled, narrowing her eyes at Naya as if she felt like knocking some sense into her, and would be doing so at the earliest opportunity.

Only there would be no chance to attempt to change Naya’s mind.

Not anymore.

Not that it’d make a difference. There was nothing left for Bruno to say that he hadn’t tried already.

Once Naya and Meiling had confirmed their willingness to take part in the mages’ plan, the half-dead wizards had quickly ushered them outside, with the assistance of their small fairy assistant, this one named Nessa, who was nearly as persistent as the previous one, Fianna.

They stood outside in a wide clearing near the Huddle, between worn paths that surrounded them on all sides, leading out to the residential areas of the pack holdings. Naya and Meiling were deep in hushed conversation with the wizards, surrounded by hundreds of shifters, all straining to pick up on what they were saying, Bruno especially.

“We think we’ll be able to separate your energy fields later,” Albacus was telling the young women.

“But you aren’t sure?” Naya asked.

Mordecai chuckled, and the sound was far from reassuring. “My dear child, we aren’t certain of much. Didn’t we make that clear already? We didn’t keep anything from you. The decision was yours alone to make.”

“We’re heading into uncharted territory,” Albacus added. “Over the centuries, mages have attempted something like this.”

“But not this.”

“No, nothing exactly like this,” Albacus said. “The existence of immortals has hardly been discussed in the annals of magic, and even then—”

“Largely as a hypothetical,” Mordecai inserted.

“If you can’t separate our energy bodies later…” Meiling said, patting her thighs in what Bruno had noticed was a habitual behavior for her—looking for the reassurance of her blades strapped to her body, but those were lost somewhere in the dense brush at the bottom of Shèng Shān Mountain. “What will that mean for us? Will Naya and I be able to lead separate lives after this?”

The many shifters surrounding the huddled wizards and sisters seemed to lean forward imperceptibly as they all waited for the answer.

“If we can’t separate you after we perform this spell intended to unite you,” Albacus said.

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