Bianca De Lumière : High Suspense Urban Fantasy Romance (The Re'em Prophecy Book 1) by Lisette Prendé

Author:Lisette Prendé [Prendé, Lisette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Full Time Unicorn Press
Published: 2020-08-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

The grass was blackened where Fae’s fireballs had landed. A light haze of smoke hung in the air. I found Fae leaning against the side of the small wooden shed.

“Fae? Are you okay?”

She looked at me, tears rolling down her face.

“Fae, what is it?”

“I’m so sorry, Bee. It’s all my fault,” she sobbed. “Mrs. Slater waited until my back was turned then ran out the backdoor. She locked me in!”

“Oh Fae, it’s—”

“And now Sunder’s hurt and they got away!” She buried her face in her hands.

I crouched down and sat next to her. “Fae, that wasn’t your fault at all. To be honest, you saved my life.”

“I did?”

I nodded. “I couldn’t focus on both of them at once. You intervened at just the right moment.”

“Thank god you’re okay, Bee.” She smiled.

“And don’t worry about Sunder,” I added, my jaw tight. “He’ll be just fine.”

Fae stumbled and pitched forward. I caught her in my arms. “Fae?” Her face looked pale and she didn’t respond. “Sunder! Help!”

Sunder appeared around the corner of the shed in a second. His tattered shirt was bloodied but the bullet wound was now a faded red mark. His eyes were wide with concern. He looked at Fae and then nodded in understanding. “Bring her inside.”

“What’s happening to her?” I yelled, as he carried her into the house. “Has she been bitten? Please don’t tell me she’s turning!”

He laid her on an old faded couch in the living room. “No,” he said. Relief rushed through me like a wave. “She’s in auric shock,” Sunder said, as he moved into the kitchen.

“She’s what?”

“She’s used too much of her glow at once,” he said, opening the fridge and pulling out a bottle of SunnyD. “It probably didn’t help that she hadn’t used it in so long.” He pulled a mug from a shelf and filled it with juice, then opened the pantry door, rifling through the contents. “It’s like running a marathon without training for it.”

I nodded in understanding. I couldn’t imagine even attempting one without at least six months of dedicated training.

“Is she going to be okay? What are you making?”

“Aha!” He pulled a bag of white sugar from the top shelf of the pantry. “In the realm, there is a fruit known as the golden apple. It is unlike any apple in the human world. It’s incredibly sweet and very bitter, and it is used to relieve creatures of the realm from illness and fatigue.”

“But this…” I pointed to the sweet juice concoction. “This is just SunnyD and sugar. I don’t even think there’s any fruit in it.”

He smiled. “Indeed. But we are trying to trick her body into thinking it’s receiving the elixir of the golden apple. Just enough to keep her functioning until we can get her to Cendrine.”

“Will it work?”

Sunder shrugged. “It has before. If nothing else, the sugar will revive her.”

He held the cup up to Fae’s mouth while I lifted her head.

“Fae,” I said softly. “You need to drink.”

She didn’t respond, but her mouth opened.

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