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Rain pov. The tension is thick in the air as we watch Morgan and Magnus circle each other. I can feel Morgan's magic snap around me, a feeling that's become like a second skin the two days we spend in bed together. If it's not swirling around me, it's forcing its way under my skin and it's a heady feeling. Her arousal heavy on my tongue, her sense of protection engraved in my bones. I'm hers in every sense of the word. She made sure of it, and I can't run now, not if I tried, not that I want to. She's calm, her sentinel soothing the worry that bubble in my gut as I watch her, terrified that she'll get hurt but also confident that she'll do what she must to keep us all safe.
"When did this happen?" Luca asks, fluttering down next to me but keeping his distance as my mate takes her eyes off Magnus only to glare at Luca. I wonder if this protectiveness will end or if it's a permanent fixture. I know Remi is itching to bite off Magnus's head and if he so much as scratches at my girl that's going to be the last thing he does.
"After she woke up." I mutter, wondering who's going to make the first move. My question is answered when Magnus swirls a ball of fire in his left hand and chucks it Morgan, who dodges it, using a blast of water to suffocate it before it sets the place on fire.
"You want to kill me, not burn the place down, old man." Magnus pulls a face, much to Mogan's satisfaction.
"I don't want to kill you, Morgan." He groans and she cocks her head to the side. I feel the anger and hatred she has towards him through our bond, her magic snapping around me but not causing me any damage.
"Can't say that the sentiment is shared. You'll either get out of my way or you'll die. Not that you'd be missed." Isa releases a distressed noise in the back of her throat and when I finally look over at her I can see the stress of this last two weeks on the Fairie's face. Her wings are still tucked into her back and at this point I have a feeling only Morgan can undo what she has done. Like she did for Luca.
"Morgan, this isn't the way to go about things." Agness sighs, the woman not moving from her seat, probably scared Morgan might send her into a permanent shift.
"You might want to take a page from your own book." Morgan mutters, glaring at the soft-spoken woman. I blink and then Magnus is thrown against the wall, Morgan's force keeping him there as he struggles to breathe. "Are you going to fight or are you going to throw cheap shots?" The corners of pupils start glowing yellow and I can see the fear in Magnus's eyes. Benjamin gulps, taking several steps back so he's on the other side of the room and River makes her way to me, standing behind me and I find it funny that she's using me as a shield. Morgan would never hurt her, but she won't tell River that either.
"What are you doing?" Magnus wheezes out and Morgan shrugs her shoulders.
"I'm not doing anything. This is all Casey." She smirks and I can see the blood that's left in Magnus's face completely drain.
"You have a sentinel?" Morgan nods, a frown settling between her eyes now. "That's not... not possible. You're a hybrid."
"I'm a Fledgling. What did you think was happening here?" Morgan asks, her confusion clear through our bond.
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"I thought you... You're bonded with your sentinel?" Magnus drops to the ground like a sack of potatoes but he's quickly on his feet. "How are you bonded? I thought your magic was going haywire." He admits, staring at Morgan like he can't believe she's real. "What the fuck are you taking about?" She asks and I step forward and pull her into my chest, running my hands up and down her bare arms.
"When we were in the room. You were exhibiting elemental magic, but it wasn't in control. Your whole body was on fire, then the water and the ice, the wind. You levitated. You... What was happening?" He walks over, stopping about seven feet in front of her. "I was bonding with Casey. I don't know what was happening. I was in pain and then it was gone. She fixed me. She fixed the parts you broke when you took my Imprint from me." His eyes wide and then he's looking between me and Morgan like he's in agony.
"He's your Imprint?" She nods and he makes an anguished noise that comes from somewhere deep inside of you. "I didn't know. I'm sorry. If I knew I would have never..." He shakes his head and look down at Morgan.
"What's an Imprint?" She grins, tuning in my arm and runs a delicate finger over my mark causing me to shiver and her magic to flare around me.
"It's like a mate but so much deeper." She mutters, going soft in my arms when I cup her cheek and bring her up to kiss me. It's insane, how much I need her. Burn for her, even in these moments. "I needed you, to function properly but when they took our memories they broke me. Our marks fixed what they did but the scars are still there." Her eyes glaze over, and I nuzzle my head in her neck, kissing my own mark, nearly groaning out loud when her desire for me floods our bond. "I truly didn't know. I thought it was his bond to you already being formed when I broke it." Magnus pipes up again. "If I knew, I would have convinced your mother otherwise." His eyes are pleading.
"So, me having an Imprint suddenly changes things?" She asks and he nods. "Why?"Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!
"Because, Morgan... having your Imprint ripped away from you is more agonizing than death. I shielded you from that pain, even if I didn't know what type of bond I was breaking. No one was there to shield me from that pain, and it nearly killed me. The only thing that kept me going was you and I couldn't even be there for you in the way I wanted to. She wouldn't let me." Morgan tenses, her eyes darting all over Magnus's face before her eyes widen.
"You said yes because..." He nods.
"Your mother was my Imprint."