Tag: fated mates

CHAPTER 7 Kayla “Dad!” Kayla raced into the house. Inside of her living room, uneasiness settled between her clavicles and forced a knot to form in her throat. Something was wrong, but looking around her childhood home, she couldn’t tell what it was. Everything looked the same. Same oversized mustard couch with the one well-loved…

CHAPTER 8 Kayla Teleporting was not for the weak. It took a stomach made of steel, which she most certainly did not have. As evident by the fact that her mostly digested dinner was now on the cobblestone beneath her feet. She tried to get her stomach to settle. “You will be well.” A strong…

CHAPTER 9 Kayla Garrick stood in Marnie’s doorway while they all watched. Her intestines tied into knots as she watched him. Garrick put one hesitant foot in the doorway as though he was expecting to spontaneously combust. Truth be told, she half expected Marnie to have a trapdoor underneath the welcome mat ready to suck…

CHAPTER 10 Garrick The shattering of wood and a yell like someone’s soul had been caught in the splinters of the mage’s steps rocketed from the front of the house. The mage, Marnie, snapped back into the eating room. Fear coated her scent. It had been similar to what he’d smelled from Kayla in the…

CHAPTER 11 Kayla What was taking them so long? Minutes seemed to stretch into hours as Kayla stared at the exposed wooden planked ceiling of Marnie’s dark, damp, stone walled basement, waiting for her and Garrick to return. At first, the basement seemed to amplify what happened upstairs. Their footsteps were like thunder when they’d…

CHAPTER 12 Kayla “Her sleep is laboring again,” a voice murmured above her head. “We should wake her.” Sleep? Her father just turned down the lights. “Back away from my daughter,” her father ordered. “Donovan, he means well,” Marnie said, her voice soft. Oh no, she dropped into a dream within a dream because the…

CHAPTER 13 Kayla Kayla dry-heaved when her father set them down, but the invisible force of Marnie’s magic tightened around her stomach, making it impossible to bend over. “Let me out of thi—” Garrick began but was cut off. Marnie’s magic split from around his arms and traveled up his neck and over his mouth,…

CHAPTER 14 Kayla Golden light shot from Pellan’s fingertips, then into Garrick. Half a second later, Garrick was on his knees. Then, a pain, sharp like the tip of a knife, shot through her head. The world went black for a second and when she came to, the pain worsened. It was as though Pellan…

CHAPTER 15 Kayla Flames licked her skin. Foremages, she was going to burn the place down with them inside it. The wall of flames raced past them, readying to corner them in. Panic made her throat tight and her feet still. “This way,” Garrick encouraged her past the paintings blackening to ash. He weaved them…