Dusk Unveiled by Carrie Ann Ryan

Author:Carrie Ann Ryan [Ryan, Carrie Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carrie Ann Ryan

Chapter

Twelve

Jaxton

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Though it wasn’t a mating bond between us, I still felt something pulsating between Laurel and me. I wasn’t sure what it was, but it was something. They had said that the spells she had used connected us in some way, and I guessed they were right. I just hadn’t expected it to be like that.

I could sense her. Feel her.

I knew that if she left, it would feel like someone were ripping my heart out. Was that what a mating bond felt like? I wasn’t sure I even wanted to know.

“You should be sitting down,” Laurel declared from beside me, and I looked over at her from the front of the bookshop.

I blinked and shook my head. “You’re the one who should be sitting down. You used your energy to protect me. While I might be fine, you’re in pain.”

She shrugged. “I’ll be okay. The coven helped.”

“At the end, not at the beginning,” Rowen snapped from beside us, and I blinked at the ferocity in her tone.

“I’m fine, both of you.”

I wasn’t sure I believed Laurel.

“If you were fine, we wouldn’t constantly be cleaning blood off your face from your nosebleeds.”

My gaze shot to hers, and I nearly growled. “How many nosebleeds have you had?”

“Enough,” Rowen snapped again.

My mate raised her chin. “I needed to find you. Don’t get on my case. I needed to find you. And so, I did.”

“You did. Yet you could have died doing so. You have to stop doing things like that for others, Laurel. You should’ve asked for help or done something else. You didn’t need to hurt yourself for me.”

She narrowed her eyes at me. If looks could have killed, I’d be lying on the floor in a puddle. “I will do anything I have to, to ensure you are safe. You keep saying the same about me. So, here we are. Trying to protect one another. And that’s what we’ll do. Try to protect one another.”

“I’m sorry,” I whispered.

“I’m sorry, too.”

Rowen looked between us and sighed. “Both of you should be resting. The healing spells and the other ones we used to find you, Jaxton, really should make you feel as if nothing happened, but it did. The necromancer and a hawk almost killed you.”

“You don’t have to remind me. I was there.”

I had nearly died. I vividly remembered seeing my cousin’s face as he smiled at me with a look I had never seen before and the way his talons had felt when they dug into my flesh.

“Laurel should be resting, though,” I added.

“She should, but she’s Laurel, so she’s not going to.”

“I’m standing right here. I’m going to help clean up the mess from the spells, and then I’m going to clean my sword. All while ensuring that Jaxton doesn’t do too much.”

“You just heard Rowen. I’m fine. You’re the one who used too much magic for the spell.”

“Rowen didn’t say that. You’re projecting.”

“Well, if the two of you are going to continue fighting without telling each other how you feel, I’m just going to head over here and work at my shop.

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