Fae's Power by M. Lynn & M. Lynn

Author:M. Lynn & M. Lynn [Craven, Melissa A & Lynn, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twin Rivers Press

Chapter Sixteen

Riona

“How could we let this happen?”

Riona watched Griffin pace back and forth across the palace library. “Seven.”

He stopped and turned to her. “What?”

“That was the seventh time you said that. The answer won’t change, Griff. We failed to get the book.”

Red crept past the collar of his shirt and into his face. “You think I care about the book right now?”

“You should. We know now Callum took the twins to Myrkur, to Egan. Everything is different now. Egan doesn’t need us. He doesn’t need to keep your people alive.”

Griffin collapsed into a chair. “Shauna and Nessa. How could I have forgotten about them? Since the moment I realized Brea and Loch forgot the twins, it’s like I have this all-consuming guilt. And fear.”

Pain seared through Riona, and she clutched her head with a quiet cry. The agony pulsed through her. She dropped to her knees. Egan. He must know she’d failed. “Callum,” she panted. “He’s reached Egan.” That was the only explanation for the sheer anguish of his wrath.

Griffin scrambled from his chair and dropped to his knees in front of her. “Riona?”

The pain didn’t go away like it had each time before. “It’s him. The magic that ties me to him.” Her wings shook as they folded around her.

And then another set of hands were on her, a comforting touch. Griffin pulled her to him, holding her as Egan’s magic sought to remind her she didn’t belong to herself or to Griffin.

Her body quaked in his arms as she burrowed closer, hiding her face in his chest. Her wings stretched to their full size and wrapped around them both like a cocoon. Riona hated relying on anyone else, she hated that Griffin had to hold her together.

But she didn’t hate him. Maybe she never had. From the moment they met, Griffin had an honor about him.

“We’ve made a habit of saving each other, haven’t we?” He rested his chin on top of her head. “How is the pain?”

Being in Griffin’s arms, she’d barely noticed the pain ebbing away. “It’s almost gone.”

They stayed there beneath the shield of her wings as her heartbeat returned to normal and Egan’s magic left her. For now.

Griffin’s warmth soothed her, and she wasn’t ready for the moment to end.

“We have to go back to Myrkur.” Griffin’s voice was no more than a whisper.

She leaned her head back to meet his gaze, wanting to contradict him, but he was right. “You need access to your full magic, or…”

“Or I’m going to die.” He heaved a weary sigh.

It was a realization Riona had come to over the last week or so. Every time Griffin fell ill, it was a deeper sickness, more serious, and it lasted longer each time. Eventually, he wouldn’t wake up.

He gripped her chin, his thumb moving over her lips. “There was a time you’d have welcomed my death.”

She nodded because it was true. And since then, she’d followed a fae who was brave and selfless. One who didn’t look at her tattoos and wings in disgust.

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