Love Beyond Time

by Rebecca Royce

  She closed her eyes, barely recognizing the power flowing

  around her.

  It was as if her power was not hers alone. She was

  floating in sunshine and she was hot like the sun but for

  some reason she could take the heat. It didn't bother her.

  You're of the sun, Isabelle. She heard Kal's voice in

  her head. It won't ever hurt you.

  In the past, the journey had always made her dizzy

  and nauseous but this time it was like walking down the

  street. It seemed she had been doing it her whole life. She

  landed softly on the ground and looked around. She was in

  a cave and it was hot around her. Abraxas hung from his

  wrists from the top of the cave. He swung back and forth

  like a pendulum. Back and forth, she thought, how could

  anyone survive like that?

  Evidently Sebastian's favorite torture position, Kal

  muttered in her brain and Isabelle realized that they were

  all in her head with her, courtesy of Charma. She wasn't

  alone. She had travelled through time but with Kal's love

  she was never going to be alone.

  Keep yourselves restrained to the present, please,

  Isabelle muttered, laughing. I'm having enough trouble

  concentrating with all of you in there. I don't want you

  messing around in my head.

  Don't worry. None of us want to see what you and

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  Kal do when you're alone, Leonardo muttered back.

  Isabelle could hear laughter in her mind. Marina's, it was

  infectious.

  "Is someone there?" Abraxas called out to the room.

  Isabelle remembered that he wouldn't be able to see her and

  was hugely impressed by how powerful he must be to even

  be aware of her presence in the cave with him. It was

  funny—history had branded him a failure because he had

  lost the children but he was a truly powerful Outsider the

  likes of whom they might never see again.

  "Hello." Isabelle smiled. "My name is Isabelle. I'm

  one of the children you saved. I've traveled back in time to

  speak with you."

  "It's not safe here for you, Isabelle." Abraxas swung

  his head towards the sound of her voice. "How is it that you

  accomplished this?"

  "I've had lots of help," Isabelle responded quickly.

  "And it is a measure of how important this truly is that I

  would risk leaving the others to come and speak with you.

  Veli felt it was imperative."

  "Veli? Is he okay? I've worried so much about what

  has become of him," Abraxas groaned. "I've burdened him

  with so much."

  "I knew him a very short time and I'm sad to say

  he's no longer with us but he never stopped looking for any

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  of us and he raised the ones he had to be wonderful, strong,

  powerful people. You would be proud of him." Isabelle

  hoped she had handled that correctly.

  "Tell me why you crossed time to speak with me

  when all I have done is fail my people over and over

  again." Abraxas closed his eyes for a brief moment. "What

  could I possibly do that you could possibly want?"

  "Your journals," Isabelle responded. "We can't

  locate two of them with some of the Great One's

  prophecies. We need to see them. We need to know where

  they are hidden so we know if the Darkness has them or if

  they just haven't been found."

  "Veli couldn't locate them? How strange. I left them

  where I was sure he would find them. They are incased

  within the gravestone of his wife Anahera."

  Why would he think Veli would break apart his

  wife's gravestone? Marina sounded incredulous.

  "His wife's gravestone?" Isabelle responded,

  ignoring Marina. "Where is that located?"

  "In the hills where our village once was," Abraxas'

  voice sounded strained. "Have you never been there?"

  Abraxas sounded shocked.

  "We were all raised quite far from here." Isabelle

  looked behind her as a shiver raced through her body. "I've

  never been to the village."

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  I have, Leonardo added. I can find the grave.

  "You didn't fail us." Isabelle wanted to help the

  great man who was chained to a ceiling, as her love had

  briefly been. He had given so much to all of them. "I wasn't

  raised with the others but I was safe and loved. I can't speak

  for everyone but I am beginning to believe that whatever

  else we may have endured, everyone was safe from the

  Darkness. Your spell worked as it was supposed to. It hid

  us. Perhaps Veli couldn't have handled all of us."

  "Thank you, Isabelle. Please leave before the

  Darkness returns. Have you perhaps found my daughter

  yet?" Hope filled Abraxas' tone.

  "No." Isabelle shook her head. "But I can promise

  you we won't stop looking, ever."

  With that thought, Isabelle threw herself back

  through time into the circle of her new found family. She

  landed in Kal's arms, immediately filled by the love in Kal's

  eyes.

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  Chapter Nineteen

  It had been two days since they had returned from

  the basement where Kal had been tortured and Isabelle had

  reached Abraxas through time. Kal was beginning to feel a

  little stir crazy.

  Isabelle had led Charma and Marina on a frantic

  healing frenzy, insisting that he stay in bed and let his burns

  heal. She hadn't let him touch her in two days either. He

  thought he might really go mad.

  Leonardo had left on a journey to retrieve Abraxas'

  manuscripts, needing a break from the place where Veli

  had died as much as anything else. He had been grumbling

  about having to deface a gravestone as he had stomped out

  the door.

  Charma had begun to busy herself improving the

  mansion with Dot. It seemed that they were all going to be

  staying put in the mansion now that the Darkness had

  struck and Charma had expressed an interest in making it

  finally feel like a home. Rooms they had never used were

  being opened up and decorated.

  For her part, Dot had finally admitted to knowing

  what was going on. She had always appreciated Charma's

  efforts to take away her memories, and some of them

  certainly were gone, but there had been too many strange

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  things over the years to not know what was happening. She

  missed Veli, desperately, which was kind of weird, and had

  channeled all of her energy into painting the walls.

  Kal was just grateful they weren't making him

  participate in the decorating.

  Marina had taken it upon herself to use some of her

  newly shown skills to start locating their missing brethren.

  Evidently she felt that she could adapt the method she had

  used to find him into a universal locater. So
far she had not

  had any success but she was determined and was not going

  to give up. She was particularly interested in locating

  Drew. Kal would always think of him as the wolf. Kal had

  never changed into a wolf, and didn't think he ever would.

  He could do it, but it didn't feel like one of his legitimate

  powers. He would have to force it.

  They had not heard anything from the Darkness or

  his two strange compatriots, who may or may not have

  known what was really going on.

  Kal had been dying to better secure the mansion and

  was determined that he was getting out of bed today, with

  or without Isabelle's blessing although he would greatly

  prefer her to be on board because then he could do the other

  thing that he was desperate to do.

  As if hearing his thoughts, which he couldn't be

  sure she hadn't, she appeared at his bedside.

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  "Feeling anxious?" Isabelle asked coyly. Her smile

  lit up his whole world.

  "Very." He pulled her down on the bed with him.

  "But you could help me feel better." Kal immediately

  began kissing her everywhere that wasn't covered in

  clothes. The chanting began in his ears. "Hear that? The

  chanters think I'm ready for action, kiddo."

  "Well, how can we argue with the chanters?"

  Isabelle teased him, pulling at his shirt until he threw it off

  of himself. She was desperate to get her hands on him too.

  She started tracing her hands up and down his well muscled

  backside and kissing him hard on the mouth.

  "I love you, Isabelle," he whispered in her ear. "I

  know that we've been through a lot in a little amount of

  time but I know what we have is forever."

  "It better be or I'll take your powers back and fry

  you up myself." Isabelle reached up to pull his mouth down

  on top of hers again. She wanted less talking and more

  action and he was happy to comply. "I think the moon

  would be on my side."

  He lost no time removing clothes and grabbing her

  breasts with both his hands. He took her nipple in his

  mouth and began to suck on it, hard. She cried out, almost

  coming off the bed.

  She responded in kind, reaching down to draw him

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  into her hand. He sucked in his breath, throbbing beneath

  her fingertips. "If you keep that up, this is ending sooner

  than I would like." Kal gritted his teeth.

  "I want it fast, Kal. I can't wait for you any more

  than you can wait for me."

  Needing no further enticement he entered her hard

  and fast. She cried out in absolute pleasure.

  "Please, baby, faster," she groaned. "I need it and I

  can't wait."

  He drove into her harder and faster until they were

  both lost in absolute ecstasy. Release hit them together as

  they called out each other's names.

  Sometime later, when she could breathe, Isabelle

  lay on top of Kal, tracing his well defined abs with her

  fingers.

  "What are you thinking about?" She twirled a piece

  of his hair in her fingers.

  He just smiled.

  "I could take the thought from your mind but I'm

  being polite and refraining from it."

  "Doing that again but this time slowly until you are

  begging for release," Kal admitted easily. Isabelle laughed,

  kissing him above his heart.

  "You really do heal quickly," Isabelle admitted.

  "I know." Kal laughed right back. "What are you

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  thinking about?"

  "I'm thinking about how I was more alone than I

  could have imagined and now thanks to fate and

  prophecies, here I am with the love of my life on a deserted

  island off the coast of, all places, Maine and facing danger

  potentially for the rest of my life. But I never felt safer than

  I do right now in your arms," Isabelle admitted.

  "You will always be safe with me, kiddo. I

  guarantee it." Kal rubbed her hair.

  "I know." She smiled into his mouth.

  * * * *

  Later that day, Isabelle snuck out of the house. Kal

  was sleeping soundly, having finally agreed to take a nap.

  The island was quiet. It was fall but it was a warm day and

  Isabelle was feeling content. She looked up at the sky,

  feeling the sun's warmth on her face. She was a creature of

  the sun, Kal had told her, and she believed him.

  Isabelle felt Kal's hands on her shoulders a moment

  before they actually touched her. She loved that they could

  now communicate with each other like that. She wasn't sure

  how that happened but she wasn't going to question it. They

  still had a lot to learn.

  Thank you, she thought, pushing her thoughts

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  upwards to her parents—all four of them. Thank you for life

  and thank you for teaching me how to live it. We won't fail

  you.

  We promise, Kal concurred, speaking in her mind.

  And you know I'm always right. Isabelle smiled.

  To be Continued in

  Love Beyond Sanity,

  Book Two of The Outsiders

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  About the Author

  As a teenager, Rebecca would hide in her room to

  read her favorite romance novels when she was supposed to

  be doing her homework. She hopes, these days, that her

  parents think it was worth it.

  She is the mother of three adorable boys, and she is

  fortunate to be married to her best friend. They live in

  northern New Jersey and try not to freeze too badly during

  the winter months.

  She is in love with science fiction, fantasy, and the

  paranormal and tries to use all of these elements in her

  writing. She's been told she's a little bloodthirsty so she

  hopes that when you read her work you'll enjoy the action

  packed ride that always ends in romance. She loves to write

  series because she loves to see characters develop over

  time, and it always makes her happy to see her favorite

  characters make guest appearances in other books.

  In her world anything is possible, anything can

  happen, and you should suspect that it will.

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  Also by Rebecca Royce

  Available from Silver Publishing:

  Light Me Up

  THE OUTSIDERS

  Love Beyond Time

  Love Beyond Sanity (coming soon)

  Love Beyond Loyalty (coming soon)

  Available from All Romance ebooks:

  Yes, Captain

  Behind the Scenes

  Simon's Fate

  One Night with a Wolf

  THE WESTERVELT WOLVES

 
Her Wolf

  Summer's Wolf

  Wolf Reborn

  Wolf's Valentine

  Wolf's Magic

  Alpha Wolf

  Angel's Wolf

  THE SEXY SUPERHEROES

  Screwing the Superhero

  Banging the Superhero

  THE CONDITIONED

  Eye Contact

  WOLF SAGA OF SAFE HAVEN

  First Dimension