“Huh?”
“Aren’t you supposed to like chant bom chicka wa wa or something?”
“You are an idiot.It is?—”
“Bidh an draoidheachd an taobh a-staigh ag èirigh leis a ‘ghealach agus bidh mi a’ soirbheachadh mar a ‘ghrian.”
The words fell out of me without even trying.It was like the moment I stood beneath the moonlight, something else took over me.
My skin was hot but cold.My heart beat fast but slow.
Everything around me ceased but lived.
“Is she supposed to be doing that?”I could hear Norman’s voice, worried.
“I’m not sure.”
I looked up at the moon and the magic inside of me swirled like a hurricane, heavier than I’d ever felt.
The light was blinding and I closed my eyes, repeating the words that were somehow etched in my soul.
“The magic within will rise with the moon and flourish me like the sun,” I said the words to myself, but they came out in some ancient form of Gaelic.I’d never spoken Gaelic in my life, but here...
It was like I was truly someone else.
The light hit me.Hard.Like a hammer.
“Channel it, Violet!”Wanda called, but her voice was white noise.
Norman called out, too, but I could not discern his voice.
Memories filled me.
My mother’s eyes, full of tears as she told me she loved me.
The moment I crossed the line from my realm to the human realm.
Dropping my book at Blackthorn and seeing those dark, inviting incubus eyes for the first time.
The feel of his cock, knot full and filling me until my heart felt like it’d explode out of my chest.
My lastArdaim.Where the Dark Fae had tried to stop me.To drain me.
There was no Dark Fae here, now.
There was only a Kraken, a siren, and a Fae princess.
Nothing and no one could stop me now.Now I waspowerful.
His fangs in my neck, claiming me.Marking me as his forever.
Desmond in his incubus form, glaring at us.Desmond in his human form, telling me off.
Bane and I on the beach, kissing under the sun.
Every memory flourished with new light as the truth.Asfate.
This is how it was always supposed to happen.
