Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
We needed to eliminate both of those, and taking on that magic was the only advantage we had.
I was sick of seeing our wolves die, and I didn’t want the vampires taking any of us again. They were experts in torture, and thinking that I might be stuck there again if it didn’t work made my heart race.
“Are we ready then?” I breathed out.
Cain nodded once, his eyes going to Beenie, who was in the shadows, watching with wide eyes.
“What’d she see?” I asked in the link.
“That’s the problem. She can’t see this one. The outcome hasn’t come to her, in nightmares or visions. She hates being blind.”
I didn’t respond. That was either a good thing or a bad thing, and the only way I was going to find out which was by pushing through.
Brax came forward so I could kiss Enzi on the head. Then Derik with Zale. Mom and Galen stood close, his body slightly in front of her, protecting.
I smiled at them all, then turned to Tabby, who was whispering something in the flames of the torches.
“Ready,” she blew out a deep breath too, then turned to us. “I’ll say the spell. You two keep your magic flowing. It’ll pass through the beast and then Adrenna, then filter through Cain and me, and absorb back into you, Luna,” she explained. I nodded, as did Cain.
“Will it hurt?” I shivered.
She gave me a patronizing smile, as if I should already know the answer to that.
I did; I was just hoping for something better.
I turned to Adrenna.
“Once you and the beast are human, and we’ve made sure he is not hunting you still, we’ll take off your shackles.”
She nodded. “Fine.”
“You’re still agreeable?”
“Let’s get this done. I want to see him again,” she said quietly, and if I didn’t feel the need for him and see the way their souls reached for each other, then I was pretty sure I would’ve canceled the whole thing. Instead, I turned to Cain and Tabby.
Tabby started the spell.
At first, nothing happened. Her Latin words floated in the wind with no reaction.
And then it hit.
The beast groaned; Adrenna cried out.
They both squirmed and writhed in pain as Cain grunted, holding firm as he held his mom’s hand. I held theirs, and when it got back to me, it was like a hot poker through my heart.
I clenched my teeth, holding them closed against the scream that tried to escape.
A barrier of magic shot up, enclosing the circle of torches and all of us inside.
The magic pulsed through me. I felt every part of it sewing itself into mine.
My magic and shadows that already existed inside investigated the foreign magic, poking and prodding it as it filled into me.
My head fell back as my eyes went to the sky. They flew open as power, raw and potent, found itself.
The border magic recognized it as its own, and my body exploded in pain.
I almost collapsed, but Cain and Tabby held my hands tightly so I couldn’t go anywhere. I fought through the pain, accepting it as easily as I could.
Tabby’s voice carried everywhere, filling the silence with the spell. The beast roared, whimpered, howled. Adrenna screamed, then cursed before falling to her knees.
She went silent, her eyes wide as she held in the pain.
Cain was straight-faced, taking every bit of pain a lot better than the rest of us.
I shut the links down tightly, ignoring my Alphas trying to take on some of the pain.
I needed to do this, and I didn’t know if letting them in would affect the spell. So I kept them out of my head and in my heart.
Tabby’s hand slackened in my grip, and my eyes snapped to her.
“Mom!” Cain yelled over the wind picking up, the flame from the torches spreading around the circle outline.
Tabby’s eyes were closed, her voice still muttering the spell.
“Teach me the spell; let me say it!” he growled. Tabby shook her head and kept talking.
Her body shuddered with every breath she drew in, her face paling.
I looked at Cain, wide-eyed as a stone dropped in my stomach.
“Tabby, stop the spell!” I called over the roar of the flames and wind.
She shook her head again. She gave my hand a squeeze as if that was meant to be reassuring.
It wasn’t.
Tabitha sniffled a second before blood started leaking from her nose. Fuck.
“No! Mom!” Cain yelled at her, trying to yank his hand free. Tabby squeezed it harder, refusing to let him go. Her eyes met his, then dragged to mine.
They were glowing pale yellow. Not the vibrant gold they were meant to be.
I shook my head at her. “Don’t. Not if this is the price,” I said, tears stinging in my eyes.
She didn’t let either of us go.
The wind and fire still roared.
The pain still existed.
The spell still continued.
And my magic still combined with the other half of itself.
Until Tabby finally stopped chanting.
The beast collapsed, silent.
Adrenna collapsed, and then Tabby.
Cain caught her as I rushed over to her. He pulled her hair off her damp face, while I tore a piece of hem from my shirt and dabbed at the blood under her nose.
I held her hand in mine, tears streaking down my cheeks at the look on her face.
She was so pale, her lips too.
The wind and night were still. Silent.
The flames were embers now, and the pack was hovering.
A bitter sadness swelled up in me from them, especially from Cain. His pain was the worst.
I let it all in, helped take it on as my own pain crushed me.
“Tabby?” I whispered.
She smirked up at me from where her head lay on Cain’s lap.
“It’s alright, child. All magic requires a sacrifice,” she said softly back. I shook my head.
“Not this kind of sacrifice,” I cried.
“You knew before we started,” Cain bit back.
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