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Even Gill stopped repeating his positive mantra’s when a big boom exploded. Fire hissed and spat out of the entrance. Smoke poured off the tree.
Hot, bitter tears poured down my cheeks.
Then I heard something else—sounds like a cough and a grunt.
I snapped to attention and swiveled away from Gill.
Someone emerged from the mass of smoke and fire and fell to the ground.
Before I could think clearly, my feet were carrying me forward. Something deep inside the pit of my stomach told me it might be my merman.
“Nyssa.” Gill’s footsteps thumped after me.
“Fin? Nemo?” I shouted.
Another grunt sounded.
A breeze swept through the clearing, fanning away some of the smoke.
And there he was, lying on the ground, breathing hard. Soot-smeared skin. Pink skin, inflamed and blistered from the heat that had scorched his shell. Two tridents rested beside him on the ground.
“Captain,” said Gill.
He dragged Fin some hundred feet farther away from the blaze and rested him against a tree.
I grabbed the two weapons and hurried after them.
Wheezed breaths pushed in and out of Fin’s lungs. “Water,” he moaned.
I kneeled in front of him and ran my hands along his grimy face. “I’m so sorry I let you go. I can’t believe you’re alive.” I pressed my lips to his forehead. My heart was bouncing with joy.
Fin’s shaky hands reached out for me and pressed me to his firm torso. “Don’t be.” Our chests melted together as he kissed me like it was our last moment on Haven together…and it almost had been.
“That’s enough of that,” growled Gill, pulling me onto his lap, supporting my back with his arm.“My turn.”
His kiss was demanding and rough, taking all of me, and I let him. I felt like jumping over the moon, knowing he had feelings for me, too.
But my delight was short-lived, sliced in two by someone shouting, “There they are. Kill them!”
I glanced up to find four mersoldiers racing for us. With all that had happened, I’d forgotten the commander had left a few mermen behind to finish us off if we escaped.
Gill picked up his trident but rocked on his feet, unsteady from using his energy for the shield.
I clutched Fin, who hadn’t moved and now shivered in my grasp.
Shellfish. We were sitting sardines, waiting to be eaten by a much bigger predatory fish.
Gill’s trident defended a stabbing blow directed at him. He swung, blocking another blow. One soldier’s next attack struck him with such force, it sent him reeling back. But he didn’t give up and jabbed at them. They laughed, taunting him.
“Give us the princess, and let us fuck her,” one snarled, earning a whack to the wrist.
I winced as I heard the bones in his hand smash.
“You’ll pay for that, soldier,” one of the others growled.
All three of them lunged at Gill. He wobbled as he attempted to block their strikes, but he wasn’t fast enough. With a sweep of their weapons to the back of his legs, they took him to the ground. Three tridents aimed at his throat.
“No,” I shouted, standing up. “Leave them. Take me.”
