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“You’ve never needed magic before, sweetheart, you don’t need it now. Just let it go and let your shadows help,” she said, but I shook my head.
I couldn’t. If I let Adrenna pull it from me, she’d get stronger, the border would fall quicker.
“I can’t. The longer I hold on to it, the more chance my alphas have.”
“And what about your chance?” Mom asked, raising a brow at me like I should’ve expected that answer.
I still shook my head and clenched my jaw again. I would hold on. I had to. If all I could do was stop her from getting the last bit of border magic to bring it down completely, then that’s what I was going to do.
For as long as I could.
37. The Secret
LORELAI
My scream pierced the walls of the mansion as the contractions came back with a fierceness I wasn’t ready for.
I clutched to the magic so tightly inside me, my will over it keeping it helping me, but it wasn’t enough to beat Mother Nature.
“Sweetie, you need to call the alphas back,” Mom whispered, placing a wet cloth over my face, dabbing and wiping away the sweat, but I shook my head, breathing hard.
“No, I can’t. She’s still there. She’s still taking the magic.”
“That’s not important right now. She will be doing that whether they are here with you or not, and I’m afraid the herbs have done what they can. You need the alphas,”
she said.
I winced, curling into her, groaning into her as she held and rocked me. I didn’t want to fail, I didn’t want them to leave early and have it ruin everything, but I needed them to be with me.
Could I be that selfish? Ask them to abandon a psychotic witch to take the border down just because I didn’t want to birth without them?
Cain knocked and came in the room then, his eyes glancing toward me. They went wide as Beenie avoided watching me at all.
“Vaughn is healed enough, we’ll go take over at the border,” Cain said sternly, and I frowned.
“You can stop her?” I asked, and he shrugged.
“We’re going to try. She won’t expect my magic, and I think I can get her away from the border long enough to get you through this,” he said.
I closed my eyes, opening the link long enough to feel my alphas. I didn’t want to distract them with the pain ricocheting through my stomach, but I had to call them back.
As soon as the link was open, I felt the chaos. The border was halfway down.
Adrenna had her claws in it, using her black sand to fight back every single attack.
The alphas were attacking, ripping her from the border just for her to float back to it. I felt her claws in the border like they were in me and cried out, her magic tainting the stuff in me.
“Come back,” I said in the link, my head voice just as breathy and strained.
Brax’s shadows stopped fighting, and he stared at the other two. “We leave and that border comes down,” he said.
“It’s coming down whether you are here or not, Alphas. Go and enjoy the last few moments of peace I will grant you. I want you to know true happiness before I rip it from you.” Adrenna chuckled, and I shuddered.
“Cain and Beenie are coming to cover the pack,” I said, tears falling as the ache came again, and I knew it was going to get worse.
It did, tightening and tightening until I had to block them out again to get through it.
Cain grabbed my hand then. I clutched it and peered up at him.
“She may be able to manipulate that border magic, Luna, but remember that you can too. It’s about will and who can convince it to do theirs.
“Just because she is trying to siphon it doesn’t mean it will stay with her. Pull on your side, don’t just hold what you’ve got. Take more, take as much as you need.
“It knows you and your attentions. You have the advantage, and the balance will listen,” he said.
I felt my magic, that glowing purple border magic that felt heavy inside me, and touched it with my shadows.
I didn’t fight it, I caressed it. It molded to me. I sucked in a breath and looked up at Cain.
He nodded once. “We’ll do what we can. Good luck, Luna,” he said, then kissed my forehead and left the room with Beenie.
Vaughn came in then, carrying more water and herbs that Mom had sent Ryleigh to get. He looked tired but healed, and my chest lightened.
“Vaughn,” I breathed, and he nodded.
“I’m sorry I let her take me. I had no idea that magic could exist,” he murmured, and I shook my head.
“No, it’s not your fault, it’s hers.”
“All the same, I am going to make it up to you all. I’m heading to the border with Cain and Beenie,” he said. “I’ll fight for the wolves.”
“No, I just got you back!” Ryleigh cried, grabbing his arm, but he smiled, kissing her tenderly before holding her cheek.
“I must fix what I broke. I’ll come back, I promise,” he said, and Ryleigh’s tears fell, but she just nodded.
I wanted to argue, to say that he didn’t have to prove anything, but he was already running off after Cain. And another pain was piercing me.
I clenched my jaw and my eyes shut, leaning into Mom until it passed, then felt my magic again. It was more agreeable now, my shadows less hostile. Like just thinking of it as less poisonous was all it needed.
Maybe it did.
I wrapped my shadows around the magic inside me and tugged it like a rope, gasping when more of it filled me. My eyes flung open, and Galen rushed over. He knelt down by the bed.
“Your eyes are glowing, Luna.”
He smirked, and I saw the purple reflection in his eyes. I smiled and pulled harder.
More magic came with it. And with it, the pain lessened.
I opened the link and found my alphas. They were running.
“You okay, mate?” Kai asked, and I smiled, pushing some of the magic through him.
He laughed. “That’s my little human,” he said, the pride in him warming me.
“We’re on our way, beautiful. Concentrate on that magic, she’ll feel you taking it soon,” Derik said, and I nodded, slowing down the amount I was pulling in at my end.
“If I am taking from it and she is taking from it, won’t it run out? The border will come down?” I asked, and all of my alphas were silent.
“Not necessarily. Your will is to keep the border. It will keep the magic in the border strong against her siphon, especially while it is answering to you. She will feel resistance the more she takes, and she’ll get nasty, Spitfire. Be careful,” Brax warned.
I swallowed. “Run fast,” I said, locking them out as my stomach tightened again, the pain still harsh as I curled in and pulled at my magic, trying to help dull it.
I knew it was almost time. There was too much pressure there, too much ache.
I wanted to push, but I had to hold back, and since my body was letting me forget it for a few seconds at a time, I fell back into the magic, whispering to it like it did to me.
I told it to keep the border up, to filter through me and back into the border, and it was.
Until Adrenna found me in the magic. I heard her piercing scream in my ear and gasped, holding my head as it screeched through my brain.
“Lorelai?” Mom asked, holding me tighter against her.
“Adrenna caught her taking the magic,” Galen whispered, putting a drink to my lips.
I trusted him enough to take a sip. It was minty and cold, but when I swallowed it down, it made my head clear. I nodded in thanks, not trusting my voice.
The wind outside picked up, the door slamming against the wall as it swung.
Ryleigh rushed to shut and lock it up as I went deep inside me, gripping my magic and pulling it away from Adrenna, who was feral on the other end.
She was strong, gripping it just as hard. I wrestled her like a tug-of-war, the pressure on my body making the pain so damn strong.
Tears rolled down my cheeks as I arched off the bed, and the urge to push grew strong, making my legs shake.
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