Shadow Kissed (Magic Side: Wolf Bound 4) - Page 106

Clearly, he was going to be okay.

People rushed in all directions around us, helping the wounded as well as the hybrids, who’d all returned to human form and were wandering about in horror and confusion.

Jaxson gripped my hand as distressed cries rose around us. I could feel his heart break, and he wanted to go to his people. But we had work to do.

Tearing her face away from her wounded son, Laurel looked to me. “You did well. I think you saved a lot of people.”

She looked as exhausted as I felt, and I shook my head. “I bought us time is all. His magic is going to keep pouring out of the Dreamlands unless we can restore the Moon’s spells and seal the rift.”

She nodded, tired lines showing on her face, and turned to her husband. “Pete, do you have the talisman?”

He pulled two potions out of his satchel. “Yes, but you’re in no shape to keep fighting. Drink these.”

We each took one, and a subtle dread of what it might be weighed on my shoulders. I was about to go face down the Dark God himself, and yet, that potion—drinking it was a truly terrifying prospect.

I popped the top, clinked potions with Laurel, and kicked it back.

I regretted everything I’d ever put in my mouth the moment I tasted it. The sticky black substance made my stomach churn, and I was certain it would have been better to have been born without a tongue.

“This is particularly bad, Pete,” my aunt choked.

“What was that?” I whimpered.

He grinned wide. “Homemade restorative—think Red Bull for magic. I make them extra bad so that I’m not tempted to drink them myself and stay up late.”

Even as he spoke, I felt new energy begin to flow through my veins.

He handed the talisman to Laurel. “Be careful, my love.”

She kissed him. “Take care of our son. Make sure he doesn’t turn into a wolf.”

“I’ll do what I can.”

Laurel sent the sorcerers and sorceresses who had helped us back to the barricade. “Get some restoratives from Pete and prepare to move the wall. We need to seal off the area immediately around the rift. Lock him down.”

They rushed away, and she turned to Jaxson and me. “Should we get this over with?”

“We’ll take my truck,” Jaxson said.

We headed back across the flickering barrier, and Sam bolted over. “You guys aren’t going without me.”

I grinned. “Wouldn’t dream of it.”

As Regina and Pete took control of the chaos, we loaded into Jaxson’s truck, and then, with a set of bodyguards in the SUV behind us, we roared into Dockside.

The place was in shambles. Buildings had been looted and were burning. Lost and confused people wandered aimlessly.

Jaxson’s anguish was so strong that I was sure even Laurel could read its signature.

He pointed toward the skyline in the northeast. “There’s a glow on the horizon, over in the direction of Eclipse. That bastard better not have opened a fucking rift in the middle of my restaurant.”

Luckily, it wasn’t there.

As we rumbled across the Diagonal, Jaxson hit the brakes, then began to back up.

In the middle of the street, two blocks up, a black hole burned in the sky, from which the sparkling fog poured out. Light shone from its edges, but there was nothing in the center.

“Found it.” He flipped us around, and we drove forward cautiously. The closer we got, the greater the destruction: overturned and burning cars, broken windows, and everywhere, scared and confused people.

Laurel called the Order to report what we’d done and the location of the rift.

We pulled to a stop half a block away and got out.

The rift floated about a foot off the ground. As if riding the mist, the energy of the Dark God infused everything around us. My spell had cleared the air…but not for long.

“Are you sure you have to go through?” Laurel asked me as the team of bodyguards formed a perimeter around us and the rift.

I nodded. “We need to recharge the last of the orbs, or he’ll break through again.”

She took my hand. “Please be careful. I can’t lose you. Not again.”

Sorrow sank into my gut, and I gave her a hug to hide my grief. “I can’t lose you, either. Or Casey, or Uncle Pete. I swear I’ll be back.”

If she were a wolf, she’d have known that I didn’t believe my own words. But Laurel just squeezed me tighter. “I’m not closing the rift until you come out, you hear?”

“Do it at the first sign of trouble. I have a talisman from the Moon. We can use it to escape, if need be, but I’m not sure where it’ll send us. If the Dark God shows his face, shut it instantly.”

I turned away quickly so she couldn’t see my tears and stepped up in front of the rift. It radiated with his signature, vibrating through us into the ground—a slow hum, a song of death and destruction.

I took Jaxson’s and Sam’s hands and gave each a smile. “Here we go. Let’s end this.”

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