Alexa O'Brien Huntress Books 9-12 Box Set: A Reverse Harem Urban Fantasy Series by Trina M. Lee

Author:Trina M. Lee [Lee, Trina M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Trina M. Lee
Published: 2019-05-18T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

“He cursed me?” I repeated. The words sounded foreign. Wrong. “Did you see this coming when you touched me? A heads up would’ve been nice.”

I leveled an accusatory glare at Gabriel. A gift like his would wear away at one’s mind. No part of me envied his ability to see snapshots of someone else’s future. Regardless, if he’d seen this coming and failed to warn me, he was going to truly die. No more second chances.

“No, I never saw anything to do with Shya.” Twisting his hands together, he shuffled his feet and shook his head. It was so easy to forget he was still an awkward teenager just coming into adulthood. Especially after the poised control and knowledge he’d exhibited tonight.

“Oh? So what did you see then?” I shot a glance to the sky. Sunrise was little more than an hour away. We’d been in Shya’s illusion for hours. It felt like several nights.

“I’m not sharing that information anymore,” he said, voice soft and vulnerable but also a lie. There was nothing vulnerable about Gabriel anymore. “It’s better to not know what’s coming.”

The weight of Arys’s gaze pulled my eyes to his. He’d known for a century what he would do to me. It had chipped a hole in his otherwise impenetrable shield. That was the very reason that I hadn’t told him about Gabriel’s vision of him attacking my sister. I couldn’t lay that weight upon him. I could only try to stop it.

There was no sense pushing the subject. I really didn’t want to know whatever he might have seen. I had bigger issues, the weird triangular mark in the center of my palm being one of them.

It didn’t hurt. When I rubbed a thumb across it there was no sensation, just a numb spot. “Can you tell me more about this?”

Gabriel held a hand over the mark, his brow furrowed in concentration. “It’s tied to your wolf somehow. That’s all I can get out of it. I wish there was more I could tell you.”

My wolf? I replayed Shya’s final words to me. Desperate and devious, he’d lashed out at the part of me that still belonged to the light. But just what exactly had he done?

Looking morose, Willow took his turn examining the triangle. Each point extended into an S-shaped squiggle. It resembled an old scar. Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly hate Shya more, Willow mused, perplexed, “Moon magic. He used the moon to tie a curse to your wolf. I’m not sure what his intent is. We’ll find out during the next full moon. There’s always a loophole with a curse though, a way to break it. Maybe once it’s triggered, we’ll be able to figure that out.”

“You can’t do anything to break it now?” Shaz hovered close, his fist clenched in his platinum hair.

Willow shook his head. He seemed reluctant to meet my eyes. “It doesn’t work that way. Shya created it. The curse has his energy signature. Only he can undo it.

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