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CHAPTER 15
Suess
THERE WERE BRIGHT RED BEAMS of light that came from the ground and reached toward the sky. The circle of light was blinding to stare at, but I could hear her voice loud and clear.
“Dearest Seuss, it’s nice to see you again.”
I growled as I paced the circle looking for a way in. I could feel wolves approaching from different angles. Eight of them. I shifted to speak to her.
“You have some nerve coming back here.”
“Do I?” she chided.
“You should have died with all the others.” I was growing restless. I could feel Justice and she wasn’t well. What had this fucking mage done to her?
“I told you then and I’ll tell you now. I didn’t know …”
I turned, feeling the arrival of the wolves. Anna, Beth, Tina, Ree, Ms. Kento, Lisa, Ms. Cordell, and … Mandy? I hadn’t seen her since … suddenly I remembered her. She was the sister. The quiet one. She hadn’t been around since I’d imprisoned the mage. I leapt toward her and more beams came from the ground creating a larger circle.
Cut off before I could reach the beams, Maddox pummeled me to the ground and rolled away from the light. I growled at him, but he held steady.
“Those beams will burn you alive if you touch them, Seuss.” Maddox rolled off me and stood.
Yes. He’d probably just saved my life, but that didn’t make me feel better.
“What in the hell is going on?” I watched the layers of beams as they circled one another. There were nine force fields keeping me from the woman that I loved. Each woman was inside a different layer like a protective fold around this goddamn mage.
“Sandy!” I yelled.
“You could make this stop at any moment, Seuss.”
“What’s going on?” My brothers and father suddenly appeared. Alec stepped forward trying to gauge the situation.
“It’s that crazy mage, Sandy. She’s got Justice and she’s killing her.” I let the power dancing along my fingertips grow into a powerful ball of energy before I threw it at the force field.
“Nooooooooooo!” Maddox yelled at me.
The ball bounced off the field and blew all of us backward onto the ground. “What in the fuck are they?!”
“Guardians.” My father stood up and dusted off his hands. “They are protectors. Question is, are they protecting Sandy or Justice?”
I didn’t think I wanted to know the answer. “What do you want from me, Sandy?”
“I want you to save her. I want you to believe me. You can’t have her without me.” I heard her sniffle and that caught my attention.
“What’s wrong, Sandy?” I tried to see through but couldn’t.
“She’s … dying …”
I roared. “Let me through!”
“You’ll kill me. If I die … she dies.”
“What?” I looked at my father hoping that he had answers.
“Guardians are blood bound. If she’s used her blood at all to heal Justice, the moment that she dies, so does Justice.”
“What is it that you want me to believe?” I asked. I felt doom closing in around me. Should I let my mother’s killer walk freely to save my mate?
