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The next second, heat, light, and Elvey had all left me.
Endless darkness surrounded me. It swept over me and closed in me, its unbearable weight choking me. Air departed from my lungs. The worst coldness sank into my bones, threatening to turn them to ice and shatter me to pieces.
I bent over while my last breath turned to a scream. “Elvey!”
He didn’t answer. He’d abandoned me.
He couldn’t just leave me here, alone and choking to death.
But he’d done just that.
The Fae mage could be cruel and heartless when he chose to be. He’d told the demon captain so.
The darkness became the foul smoke. It wanted to possess me and turn me into a mindless, rabid beast. And then it would send me to go after my mates and hurt them.
You’ll not have me!I hissed.I won’t let you near them.
A flicker of light and fire rose from my belly.
Don’t let it snuff out.
I pictured it expanding. I commanded it to grow.
It leaped up a little higher.
The tiny light kept the foul smoke at bay for the moment, yet the darkness still penetrated me, and icy coldness traveled in my veins as if it owned me.
I was a dragon. I wouldn’t allow it! But I wasn’t powerful enough to drive the darkness and smoke away.
I heard groans of pain. The next I smelled a familiar scent and realized my mates were here. Fear for them drenched me. I clenched my teeth and pulled my light with great effort. It lit like candlelight, illuminating what was in front of me.
Iron chains pierced Rai, Blaze, and Iokul and spread-eagled them in the air.
“No!” I screamed in rage and terror.
They stared at me without recognizing me. The torture and darkness had shattered their minds. They only struggled once in a while, and the heavy chains clanged and clanged.
I lunged toward them, but the alien darkness pushed me back, pinning me against the cold, damp wall.
As I watched life slipping away from my mates’ once-stunning eyes above their masks that were also tainted by blood, something broke in me.
I wouldn’t allow them to die. I wouldn’t allow anyone to hurt them again.
Light from the heavens and hell burst in me.
It ripped out of me like a ring of fire.
The White Light with dragon fire penetrated the darkness, purging it, until the room was full of blinding light. At the same time, my light melted the chains binding my mates, turning the iron to dust.
“Remember it,” Elvey’s voice whispered in my ear. “Remember where to draw your power. If you fail, your mates’ fate will be worse than that. Tianna loves cruel games more than anything, and she’s absolutely psychotic and pitiless.”
I wanted to hit him for conjuring up the image of my mates being tormented, but then he could be right. If I didn’t get my shit together, I wouldn’t just lose my mates.
I would condemn them to the worst fate, because my evil aunt knew where to hurt me the most.
I turned to him. “I’ll remember you as well, Elvey,” I said, my voice inhumanly harsh. “I won’t forget shattering your chains.”
He no longer held me, the coldness and distance between us a regretful thing.
