Chapter 35
I begin to laugh,though it sounds a bit like a sob. I sound like I’ve lost it, which maybe I have.
Lia’s eyes find mine. “You think this is funny?” She steps on one of my legs, causing me to scream all over again.
From the other end of the bond, Memnon’s warmth has iced over, and I feel his cold-blooded wrath.
There are no more words between us. It’s more primal than that. All that’s left is pain, rage, and vengeance, and it swirls together until I’m not sure what’s mine and what’s his.
BOOM!
The door to the room blows clear off its hinges, flying across the space and crashing into the pile of boxes.
Filling up the open doorway is my mate.
Memnon’s eyes are glowing like hot coals, and his hair has lifted from his shoulders, rippling like he’s swimming underwater.
I want to sob at the sight of him. As it is, my heart leaps, and Goddess, the things I’ll forgive this man for simply because he showed up.
His eyes immediately find mine, and even distant as they get when his power takes over, I swear they burn brighter.
“Selene.” He growls my name possessively.
His gaze scans my broken body, and that rage that whispered down our bond now consumes him. Memnon’s power burgeons around him, sparks of it lighting up the indigo plumes like it’s all a miniature storm cloud.
A split second later, his power is there, slipping down my throat and into me, reaching for my injuries and attempting to heal them from a distance. But because healing usually requires pressing hands to flesh, his magic doesn’t do much besides setting my broken bones. The action causes me to scream through my teeth.
I’m sorry, love. His voice has an otherworldly edge to it as his magic rides him. Memnon begins striding toward me, likely to finish healing me.
“Don’t come any closer,” Lia warns.
Memnon pauses, his gaze flicking to the woman.
As soon as he sees her, he stills. “Juliana.”
Juliana?
I glance up at who I thought was Lia. Seven hells.
It all comes together fast. Lia must be a nickname. As in Ju-lia-na.
This isn’t just some random witch gone rogue. This is a sorceress and one of the heirs of Ensanguine Enterprises.
Juliana Fortuna.