Mandy M. Roth - Magic Under Fire (Over a Dozen Tales of Urban Fantasy) by Mandy M. Roth

Author:Mandy M. Roth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

EMMA FELT as if she’d been plugged into a nuclear reactor and was feeding on all its energy at once. Her skin felt cold even as her mind burned with fury. This woman had tried to kill her. Kill her mate. She’d betrayed her own kind, and for what? More control? More power?

“Please, love. Let her go,” Keir said again.

Emma tried again to stop what she was doing to Amile, but she couldn’t find an off switch. Hell, the on switch had been flicked by accident. “I don’t know how. I can’t stop.” The force of magic roared through her body. Keir stepped between her and her prey. “Don’t get in the way, Keir.”

“I can’t let you do this, Emma. This isn’t you.”

Tears leaked down her face, an involuntary response to the power coursing through her veins. “Help me,” Emma said. This time, not a prayer to someone unknown, but a plea for her mother to step in. “Help me stop.”

“Bring your wolf, daughter.”

“I don’t understand.”

“You are half me, Emmaline, but you are also half your father’s child. Let go of the magic and welcome the wolf.”

Emma remembered Keir’s shift into his animal form. She thought about how his bones had bent and cracked and reshaped. How fur had sprouted thick along his golden skin. How his amber eyes had blinked up at her. She thought about the smell of his musk, earthy and natural.

Her body jerked as she dropped to the ground, writhing as her insides broke apart and reformed. When she could stand, she stood on four legs and gave her fur a shake. She felt Keir’s love then. His thoughts joined with hers in a soothing song of harmony. They were one. Mated. This was how it was meant to be. The anger fled as his love filled her up. In moments, she was back in human form again.

Aerina was standing over Amile, keeping watch on the treacherous warrior woman.

“Your friend,” Emma said. “We have to help him.” She ran toward the fallen men, ignoring the protests as she slid next to Toland, Keir on her heels.

“He won’t survive,” Jaylinn said. “He’s lost too much blood, and his pulse is thready.”

Emma had taken an anatomy class in high school and tried to remember the parts of the lungs and the heart, but other than a general idea of how they worked, she couldn’t remember specifics. Where his brother had pulled out the blade, Emma stuck her fingers in the hole.

“What are you doing?” someone said.

“She’s going to kill him,” another voice added.

“Let her work,” Keir said. “She is Tol’s best chance.”

More protesting ensued, but Emma ignored it as she carefully examined the wound. If there were holes, she thought, they needed to be plugged.

“Heal, damn it.”

Aerina’s voice entered her mind. Push your magic into his damaged skin and will it to health.

“Heal,” Emma said, this time with less frustration. The knitting bone tickled her finger as the expanding lung pushed out against the tip. She yanked her

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