by Meg Xuemei X
So I stood my ground.
Then I found the rest of my team and a Mysthian guard joined me.
We formed a wall before the door to the tunnel.
Wave after wave of the king’s sentinels surged at us from all openings.
“Hold,” I ordered, “and hold.” I roared, “Charge!”
My black lighting struck, and my blade lashed out to claim the lives of my mate’s enemies.
Chapter 36
PRINCESS ROSE
Seth’s body heat couldn’t reduce the cutting coldness in my bones.
I knew I was fading when I heard the call from a distant shore in the veil of darkness. I heard the doting yet regal voice of my empress mother, whom I’d never met.
My connection to Earth was ready to break.
It comforted me that I was in Seth’s arms.
“Hang in there, love. Don’t leave me.” Seth kept calling to me, our bond the only thread that made me linger.
My consciousness snapped back to the present and sharpened as Seth handed me over to Ephraim. “You go with them,” he told his friend. “You keep her safe for me.”
I realized that he wouldn’t come with me. He would stay behind to defend me and my people and die doing just that.
I would never see him again. Even in death, I wouldn’t find him. Angels and faeries were supposed to go to different planes, as we were from different worlds. Our souls, set apart by light years, would never meet again. It would be an eternal separation.
I’d just found him. I had just gotten to know him.
I clung to him with desperation and refused to let him go.
“Let go, love,” he said. “I’ll find you.”
Loving me was the truth. The rest was a lie. He wouldn’t find me. They would kill him. No matter how supreme he was, he alone couldn’t defeat an army. Not when he didn’t have the Forbidden Glory at his disposal.
Many of his soldiers had died for him and me. He soon would join them.
My guards pried my fingers off him. I didn’t have any strength left to fight them off.
Then Seth’s scent and warmth and solidity abandoned me.
I cursed and begged, “Please, no, please…don’t leave…him.”
An explosion and blast of light and shrieking and raining glass erupted around me. It hurt so much to be in the middle of the havoc and chaos. It hurt so much to be broken like I was.
Ephraim sprang me away from Seth. I heard myself scream his name.
Mate. My mate.
The last thing I saw was fire and smoke and endless, mighty wings surging at Seth, and black lightning striking amidst the apocalypse.
The door shut in my face, completely cleaving Seth and me.
Someone told me that I was safe and we were in the tunnel.
Ephraim carried me and ran, tearing me further away from Seth.
I’d left my male to face a nightmare alone.
My heart shattered to pieces.
A bond forged when two souls first entwine is impossible to sever, a voice, carrying potent, ancient magic, whispered. I shivered. No force of the universe or any individual can break them apart.
Yet they had broken Seth and me apart. Soon he would fall under blades, all because of me.
I had been his curse since the day he met me.
No wonder he had called me eroma, the thorn in his side and the bane of his existence.
Not all hope is lost, Rose Jekaterina Faylinn, the voice whispered again, gently brushing my mind before vanishing into the mist and the unknown.
Even when all hope is lost, even when the world burns to ashes, I vowed as the bitter darkness completely took me and the mortal world slipped from my grasp. I’ll come back for you.
I’ll find you.
And I’ll be with you.
My mate for life.
THE STORY CONTINUES IN THE FINAL INSTALLMENT
THE EMPRESS OF MYSTH 4:
ANGEL’S STORM MAGIC
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About the Author
Meg Xuemei X is a USA Today bestselling author. She writes steamy paranormal and sci-fi romance. She finds it dreamingly delightful to be around drop-dead gorgeous alpha males who are forever tormented by her feisty heroines, formidable alien angels, wild shifters, haughty fey, dark vampires, and cunning witches.
She's visited the universe of The Empress of Mysth, The First Witch, and Dark Chemistry. Next she'll boldly go to the badland of The Wickedest Witch. At this moment, in her southern California abode, she's packing as many forbidden weapons as she can carry. Her favorite one is a magical whip.
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