Chapter 107

Cassie

I could feel the power first and I had tried to ignore it. I put it down to the strain on my body recently. Seeing Julian so broken was like a physical pain through my body.

When I had first seen him I had thought he was dead and that's why I had cried out. It's why I had rushed from my hiding place and gone to him. I knew Ian would have some very stern words to say to me when we were alone but for now he was just staring at me with his mouth open.

"Maybe I can save the new king." I said as the warmth of the magic flowed through me. It was growing stronger by the second , burning the inside of my skin and making me grit my teeth. If I didn't let it out soon then-

"What's going on?" Even through his pain Julian looked worried about me. "What's wrong with her?" He looked wildly between the two of us. "What's going on Cassie."

"She has the magic of healing. Sometimes." Ian answered.

"Wolves don't have those kind of gifts." He muttered. And then his eyes went wide. "You're not a full wolf are you? Your father said something-" he cried out as I smashed my hand down on one of his dislocated shoulder. The noise that left his lips was loud and Ian moved so quickly that I couldn't follow it to clamp his hand over his mouth and muffle the sound.

"Goddess. Warn me next time. The guards will hear and-"

I ignored Ian. Concentrating on pooling all that burning heat through my hand and into my broken mate. It was all that seemed to matter to me. I just wanted to make him whole again.

The warmth spread through his shoulder and I followed it with my mind. Watching as it knit his bones and muscles together.

It was exhausting and painful but I knew I could do it. I could mend him and -

"Stop." Julian moaned at the same time Ian yanked me back.

"What the hell?"

"You can't do that Cassie." Ian's arms tightened around me.

"Like hell I can't. I have to. Then we can get these shackles off of him and take him." My eyes met Julian as he shook his head.

"You can't Cassie. If I'm suddenly healed then it will be too suspicious. They will know someone was in here and-" Julian glanced at Ian who shrugged. Almost like he was saying that Julian should explain it. "If anyone has any inkling you have these powers then they will know it's you. At the moment they think you have left. And that you are on the run and in hiding again. They don't know about the babies. Megan made a joke about them being dead and I didn't say anything to contradict her.  You can't heal me. And I can't leave this cell. We have to make sure the children are safe." Julian's eyes met mine. "You and the children are the most important things in the world to me right now." Slowly he turned his eyes to Ian. "Getting them out is what's important. Find her real family, I have a feeling they are powerful and that's why she is seen as such a threat. Give me your word you will get my family out and protect them. You must leave me here." Julian stepped back away from my hands and they fell to my side.

"Leave."

I reeled back from the venom in his tone. It sounded so much like the old Julian. The Julian I had married but one look into his face and I knew it was an act. The spell had been broken. We could sense our mate bond now. He didn't hate me. He was just being hateful to try and save my life.

"I'm not really the kind of woman to take orders and obey." I caught his face between my hands and forced him to look at me.

Behind me Ian chuckled. "Isn't that the truth."

I didn't need to turn around to know he had rolled his eyes.

"Let me help you a little bit at least. We can't leave yet so let me help you." I whispered.

"You have to get the children-" He began to say and I cut him off with a low growl that seemed to echo off the stone walls.

"And I will but that doesn't mean I will abandon you. I won't leave you in pain." Tears slipped from my eyes. I had felt real pain when I had given birth. More agony than I could ever hope to explain and I could see that pain in my mates eyes. I hated that he was living like it.

"Cassie." Even through the mist of pain and terror that was shadowing his eyes, a flicker of light started to form.

I edged closer. "Tell me how to help you without bringing suspicion down on us." Another step and my full heavy breasts brushed against his chest.

"A kiss." Julian groaned. "A kiss would give me the strength to endure another day."

I didn't even think about it. Reaching up I pressed my lips to his. A gentle kiss that was more tender than anything else and then like a wildfire it grew crazed. I wanted to claw at him. Climb up him like a tree and wrap my whole body around his broken one as we plundered each other mouths.

Ian groaned. "Now is not the time for you two to start getting freaky."

I slowed my kiss and smiled. I would have liked to have told him not to be disgusting but the need I felt for my mate was overwhelming and Ian knew how furiously me and Julian wanted each other when we got together.

"It's just a kiss-" Julian began to chuckle when he froze. "They are coming." Wildly he motioned for Ian to grab me. "Get her out of here. Get her-"

Suddenly I could hear footsteps coming towards us as well. More than one set. More than even five. Had we been caught? Had the senses us or heard us or-

Ian caught me around the waist and lifted me away from my mate. Man handling me towards the small space.

"I'm not leaving him , they will hurt him." I began to struggle against his grip on me.

My mate and his most trusted friend shared a look. And a silent message when between them and then Julian pressed his fingers into my throat and blackness took over.