I wanted to cry, scream, and throw up. We were running through the snow to the battle, to our Coven-mates, but I saw nothing. My entire soul was locked on this revelation. Everest was my soulmate. Everything suddenly made so much more sense. In hindsight, it was painfully obvious. In the back of my mind, I registered the sharp chill of the snow hitting my skin and the sounds of the war happening up ahead.

Everest is my soulmate.

I had so many questions.

Bright light flashed in front of me, snapping me out of my mental spiral. Lily was in front of me shining thick streams of golden sunshine from her palms into the battle up ahead. Vampires burst to dust and ash like fireworks left and right. Cooper knocked a dozen vampires out. With one flick of his wrist, they were all asleep.

I looked ahead and my heart sank. Willow had dragons of all colors flying around and shooting flames, which were really being sent by Emersyn. It was incredible. I saw rainbow mist light up the tree line. Tennessee was a monster zooming through the battle.

Sweyn was up there, I saw her white hair and heard her hideous cackle. Saber and Everest were fighting by her side.

Green flames shot up in front of me, causing me to make a sharp right turn. Sam charged for me, her long blonde hair flying behind her like a cape. My soulmate’s betrothed. She tackled me into the snow. I tried to push her off, but she had that vampire strength I couldn’t overpower. She wasn’t hurting me, instead she pressed her palms to my right shoulder and neck and screamed.

Oh no, she knows what this mark means—warmth covered my upper body all the way up to my jaw. I stopped fighting her and looked down. Sam had somehow used magic to cover me up. I looked up to her with wide eyes.

She snarled and dove for the other side of my throat. I gasped.

‘I’m not gonna hurt you, Frankie. Stop fighting me or it WILL hurt.’

I froze with my hands on my shoulders as her voice echoed in my mind.

‘Sweyn CANNOT see that soulmate mark on your shoulder. Everest’s cover cannot be blown yet,’ she yelled through my mind. ‘You have to get out of here. Take The Coven and GO. You can’t win this tonight, not like this.’

Then I remembered Sam’s voice warning us something was coming in the Land of the Lore.

‘The Unseelie and demons are coming. She made me call for them. The fallen angels are coming, and there’s SIX of them now.’ Her voice wasn’t screaming anymore, like she was new to this trick and still learning how to control it. ‘On the count of three, I need you to blast me with as much magic as you can, then run for the arches.’