Chapter 155
ved slightly, but no words came out.
“I’ll go get Freya,” Jamie murmured, fighting our daughter’s tight grip on his shoulder as he managed to settle Margot in my lap. “I’ll be right back.”
Now that she was no longer latched onto her father, Margot gripped my robe, latching on so hard I thought she might tear the silk. “Don’t go, Mama. Don’t let them take you away!”
“I won’t. I’m not going anywhere, Margot,” I whispered to her, holding her firmly. Margot was covered in sweat, almost feverish, she was so upset. I prayed there was- something Freya could do. The last thing we needed was for her to be sick again. Jamie returned shortly thereafter, looking frustrated. As he approached us, he shook his head, running a hand through his hair. “Freya’s not here,” he announced, his tone quiet but still distressed. “She’s gone to the Temple of the Moon Goddess.”
“Oh, well… that’s inconvenient,” I said. I wasn’t sure what else there was to say, but
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having the healer in the castle right now would’ve been more convenient. With no one there to assess her physical condition, I had to try something else to calm her down. I hummed to Margot, then sang our little song, but she would not be consoled, screaming and crying and clinging to me.
Jamie raked a hand through his hair again, frustration mounting in each of his movements. “It’s no good. We’ll just need to take Margot to where Freya is, at the temple.” He gently but firmly unclasped Margot’s hands from my robe and swept her up in his arms.
“No! I can’t leave her! They’re going to take Mamal” Margot screamed, lunging for me again.
“It’s okay.” I said, rising quickly and taking her hand. “Nothing bad’s going to happen. It’s okay. I’ll come with you.” She seemed so convinced that I was about to meet my demise. There had to be something we could do to put her at ease. I went back to the room to quickly get dressed, and then, with Margot nestled in Jamie’s arms, the three of us rushed out of the castle and through the expansive castle grounds to the unassuming yet well–appointed Temple of the Moon Goddess.
Just as it came into sight, however, there was a stirring in the woods. The sound of leaves rusting sent a chill down my spine, and the hairs on the back of my n*eck stood on end.
We were not alone….
“What the hell?!” Jamie shouted as the forms of dozens of sinister, large, dark wolves stepped from between the trees.
Three cloaked human figures stepped through the ring of wolves.
“Give us the girl,” the one in the center, a woman with a brash, loud voice, demanded.
I thought I recognized his voice, but I was too distressed to place it. There wasn’t time to give it much thought..
I tried shifting into my wolf form, but for some reason, perhaps the poison I’d apparently been given, I hadn’t been able to shift for years, and now was no exception.
“She’s sick,” I called back. “Let us go!” My voice was more commanding than I had ever heard it before.
Jamie growled low in his throat, backing up my words.
“I’m afraid we can’t do that,” the voice, a woman, replied, her tone dismissing my request immediately.
Then the wolves began closing in, snarling and yipping as they got closer to us.
Jamie started to hand Margot to me, but a wolf jumped and grabbed his arm with its teeth, tearing the flesh and leaving blood dripping down as Jamie shook him.
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off.
One of the figures darted forward and ripped Margot from his arms while he tried to fend off two wolves at once.
I screamed and threw myself on the cloaked person, clawing at their face, pounding on their back. “Let her go! Give her back to me, right now!” I shouted, frantic.
A wolf snatched me off by the back of my dress, teeth sinking into my flesh, and I fell to the ground, hitting my head on something hard.
My vision began to fade in and out. Jamie was fighting four wolves at once now. He threw them off, then shifted. I recognized his magnificent form. I prayed he’d found a way to call for help using the mind–link, but my head hurt so badly, everything was mixed up, and I couldn’t even think straight.
Only one word could form on my l*ps. “Margot…” I croaked, reaching towards the darkness as the cloaked figures ran off, Margot screaming in one of their arms. Jamie tried to break free of the wolves to follow them, but they fought him en masse, and four wolves had multiplied into at least eleven.
I sobbed, struggling to rise, but the world swam, and I thumped back down to the ground.
Snarling, tearing, then whining and whimpering filled the air.
“Jamie… Margot…” I moaned.
Blackness crawled into the edges of my vision, and I felt myself falling unconscious.
“No… Jamie… Margot…” I struggled to keep my eyes open.
I didn’t know I’d lost consciousness until I heard a familiar voice.
“It’s all coming apart, isn’t it, b*tch? You thought you could have your happy little. world back. But now, now it’s over for you.”
I peeled my eyes open and looked up in horror.
Hera, in a heavy cloak, was looming over me.