The most horrible earsplitting rend the air as her life force let her. I saw the dark curl of smoke as it left her body and descended into the earth as she dropped to the ground.
It was over and suddenly I got the shakes, before my knees could buckle beneath me Donovan was there to catch me.
"I've got you love."
He kept running with me in his arms, his personal Garda forming a protective line on either side of us while the rest of his army carried on in battle. When we reached his horse which had to be the biggest horse I'd ever seen in my life, he set me down in the saddle and climbed on behind me wrapping me securely in his arms.
My heart was thundering away with the horse's hooves as he raced towards home; it seemed strange to be reacting so strongly after the fighting was all said and done.
When we reached the castle he took us straight to his room and into what looked like a closet. With his eyes I heard the soft chime of his cadence as he spoke with his mind, then suddenly placing his hand against the marble wall I felt that same surge I'd felt only days before when we'd travelled here.
Within minutes we were back in the garden outside his home back on earth and I could breathe again. It felt as though we were in constant motion as he entered the cool marble walls of home holding me clutched safely against his chest. My breathing calmed, the children settled and I fell into darkness.
Chapter Twenty
I've never been so fucking scared in my life, in fact I've never known fear before, it's almost foreign to me, but seeing her in battle, I don't ever want to go through anything like that again.
"Father."
"Not now Nicola, I'm very displeased with you right now, you had no right."
"But father, mother needed...."
"SILENCE, do not speak to me of what my wife needs, you will do well to remember that though you may be the future empress, I am not only your father, but the ruler of our people, that means I rule over you as well you have much to learn, your headstrong ways could've harmed your mother."
She wept at my harsh words; I felt the tear in my heart for making one so young feel such sorrow but she had to learn to temper her actions. I will never accept anyone no matter who it may be, putting Tamara in danger. I accept that I am most angry with myself, I should never have taken her to the battlefield no matter what. She is and will always be the most important part of my life. Had she died my people would've been without their leading family for I swear I would've followed her into the grave rather than live without her.
Look at her, she's lying here so still, so lifeless, all because I had taken her into hell.
"Mother wake up, father is going mad."
I heard my son speak to me as if from afar and in the back ground a sad lamentation, but what made my heart race with renewed fear was the feeling I picked up from my mate. Total despair and heartache, I tried to climb out of the darkness to reach him but the lethargy was too strong, I couldn't make myself awaken.
'Donovan.' I screamed in my head trying to draw him out of the place he'd gone to but he seemed too caught up in his own misery. What had happened? I searched my memory for the recollection; had I been injured? I searched my body for the pain but there was none. None but the pain in my heart at the sorrow in his.
PUSSY What the hell is wrong with you freaks?
ME You can hear me?"
PUSSY Um yeah, and what the heck is the hold up, I thought we were supposed to be having hot warrior monkey sex with steel and swords and sweat and
shit, what's this fainting shit you done scared the poor man half to death?
ME I can't wake up and I can't reach him.
PUSSY Damn, just when it was about to get good too, you're such a cock blocker.
ME Is that all you can think about?
PUSSY I'm a pussy, the fuck you want me to think about, quantum physics?
I had to laugh at that one, pussy sure is a mess.
She's laughing, I can hear her, but I thought....."Tamara?"
"Donovan, oh thank heavens, where'd you go?"
"I thought you were hurt, you went into the dark and I couldn't reach you love."
"I'm not hurt, just tired I think."
She finally came fully awake and I looked into her beautiful eyes. "You scared a hundred years off my life, don't do that again."
"I won't."
I laughed with her because suddenly I was extremely happy, she'd faced the worst she would ever have to in my home and survived and she wasn't even at her full strength as yet.
"I'm so proud of you my princess."
"That wasn't me, that was all Nicola."
"That little Miss is on punishment until she's twenty."
"Not fair father, mother tell him, you had fun didn't you?"
"Donovan were you mean to our baby?"
"Your baby scared the hell out of me."