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Chapter Eleven
The wind swished through my hair as I stuck my head out of the sleigh. We were cruising over the woodland, everyone searching for any places that resembled a hideout, or movement that could be Krampus. Leven was on the other side of the compartment, doing the same, and yet I couldn’t stop thinking about him taking me right here in the sled—with Jax watching! My pussy still throbbed in the best possible way.
I glanced over my shoulder to catch Leven checking me out before returning his attention to the forest. Jax focused straight ahead, and Tatum kept flying along the mountain range. With everything going on, I kept wondering if Tatum knew what we’d been doing earlier. I could only guess he’d be pissed that we hadn’t been paying attention to the mission. I should have felt guilty as hell that I hadn’t been more attentive. But I swore, being sprayed by the Good Stuff had played with my head, and I couldn’t help myself around Leven. Another reason I hung over the edge of the sleigh. To clear my head of the pixie dust Viagra.
I needed to focus.
Find Britta.
Survive.
And with each passing second, dread flooded back, smothering the calm sensation I’d enjoyed momentarily.
Staring back down, I surveyed the area blanketed in snow.Hang on, Britta. We’re coming.
I couldn’t remember how long we’d been traveling, and I wondered if Tatum was exhausted. Maybe he needed a break. I stretched my back when I caught movement farther below. We were a fair distance up, so it was difficult to make it out clearly.
“Hey, I see something,” I called out over my shoulder, pointing to a location where the trees were thinner. I squinted for a better look as Leven pressed up alongside me, peering into the direction.
He gasped, and I found a moose lingering near a rock wall. “Wait, is that a cave?”
“Take us down!” Leven shouted and moved over to stand behind Jax, talking about where to land while I couldn’t stop staring at a potential hideout.
Are you in there, Britta?My chest squeezed as I pictured her chained to the wall. I blinked away the tears. Now wasn’t the time to fall apart—it was time to get ready to fight.
We careened to the right, dipping as Leven took my elbow and pulled me to his side on the bench behind the driver’s seat. His arm looped around my back, and our sides were plastered together. “When we get there, you stay in the sleigh,” he instructed. “We’ll search inside the cave. I need you safe.”
When the sleigh started diving, I yelped instead. We lurched backward against the driver’s seat, the wind driving my hair into my face.
“Fuck!” Jax yelled.
“What the hell?” Leven was on his feet and turned to Jax. “What’s happening to Tatum?”
I gripped the edge of the sled, and twisted around to find a spluttering of black dust encasing Tatum as he drew the sled through the air. My throat dried at seeing his legs flaying about, his body contorting and convulsing.
“What’s he doing?” My heart bled to see him grunting and in clear agony.
Jax pulled on the reins, but it didn’t help.
The air kept buffering into us as I held on to stop from tumbling forward from the momentum.
“Don’t fucking know,” Jax barked. “The moment we took a sharp decline to land, black dust exploded from the front of the sleigh and sprayed him.”
I stared at Tatum. The particles were now gone, but he kept shuddering. “We have to help him,” I pleaded. “Can you fly to him?”
“We only fly when connected to a sleigh’s magical harness.” Leven was already morphing and shifting, his body enlarging, his legs extending, his neck lengthening, and I looked away, convinced he was in pain. Within seconds, he stood in the back with me as a full-blown reindeer, snorting. He was massive.
But the ground was flying toward us too fast.
I screamed and held on to the back of Jax’s seat while he heaved on the reins.
“Tatum, damn you!” he bellowed.
We were diving to our deaths. I’d always thought when I faced my end, my life would flash before my eyes, but it didn’t. I just screamed and prayed to survive so I wouldn’t leave my sister alone.
Leven leaped past me in his animal form, his hooves bouncing off the nose of the sleigh, and sailed forward.
I held my breath.
