Shaking it off, he continued. “Looks like the plan was to take us both. He said they have a sorcerer that will make Christina their savior, and they only intended to take me for revenge. He tried to attack Christina, but she literally blasted him with a blinding flash of light that set him flying from her, a good few feet. That about covers it.”
“It sounds a common story, well, at least on their part. However, no other charge used magic against them. In almost all cases, the charge was protected once back-up arrived. Sadly, not all back-up arrived in time,” one of the guys in the room who had been on the phone when I arrived filled us all in. “We lost a few today to their pack, an unprecedented event. We took out a hell of a lot more, but who knows what their plans are, attacks on top of attacks. And, the guy in the suit you spoke of here, he got away. We tracked him as far as we could, but eventually lost the scent, as if it disappeared by some sort of magic.”
“Shit,” Lex grumbled. “Guess we need to count our lucky stars, Christina.”
I nodded, still processing all that had been said.
“So, where does that leave us now?” Lex asked, his voice tight, his apprehension tightening my own.
For a minute, I didn’t think the pizza would stay down, especially when Lex pushed his half-eaten piece at me again.
“Well, with the other pack, we’re still clueless as to what is next and when this will all end. They have to be off licking their wounds after all their losses today. But, with talk of a sorcerer, who knows for how long? As far as you two,” the man said, and grinned, “well, the Royals want to meet her, and they still don’t even know that she used magic to protect herself today. Just the fact that the two of you being together as you have been has produced some kind of resurgence of the magic that should have remained weak and dormant within her...it has made them want to evaluate and try to train her.”
“Really?” I squeaked. The idea of meeting these Royals, family, got to me as much as being trained to use magic, something I wouldn’t have dreamed actually existed outside of books just a few days ago. Of course, I hadn’t believed a love like I now felt for Lex existed either, at least not for me.
“Really,” he continued. “And, as news in your favor, they want Lex at your side, as they believe that your connection, your feelings for each other, have to have something to do with all of it.”
I turned to smile at him. All of the residual fall-out from the bad crap that had happened to us in the past hours drained from me as my smile grew to the point of making my cheeks ache.
“They aren’t going to separate us,” I said, tears welling up in my eyes, in a way that I welcomed this time.
As I hugged Lex, I saw Vivian smiling at me. My heart leapt with knowing that a family member, no matter how distant, even if one of the created, was happy for me.
“You said you are family?” I asked her over Lex’s shoulder.
As he pulled back to look at Vivian, too, she answered. “Yes, I am. I am actually one of the Royals, one of your distant relatives with magic, who was granted my ability to turn into a werewolf a few hundred years back. I’m one of the few of them that like to still get my hands dirty, but this time, I just couldn’t wait to meet you.”
She reached out her hand to grab and squeeze mine. A plethora of sparks flew from us as she grasped my hand tight, and wouldn’t let me pull away.
“What the…” Riker and Lex bellowed in unison.
As I watched the sparks die down to a swirl of power, the light that emanated from our point of connection started to swirl around our bodies. The light created wind that lifted my hair. A sound like thunder cracked in the room, and I ducked, then smiled, realizing that she’d done that.
“Duck, everyone,” she giggled, and then to me said, “just let it go. Help me push it away from us.”
I did as she asked, though I wasn’t one hundred percent sure how. I pushed like I had when suit guy had threatened me. With another claps of thunder, the noise rolled, even as the light moved from us, formed a literal tornado in the room. Everyone held steady as it moved from us, gathering up all the crap in the room with it as it went, before breaking through the sliding glass door, shattering the glass into tiny shards that finally fell like rain to the balcony once the tornado moved on.