Point of No Return by Tara Fox Hall Page A

him a hug. “I owe
you for this.”
    “No, you don’t,” he replied, hugging me. “If
you had not been with Terian when Leri attacked him, he’d be dead.
I know also how you saved him from being killed at Theo’s hands.
It’s I who owe you still.”
    “He’s my friend,” I answered uncomfortably,
roasting from his heat.
    “Thank you for that, too,” he replied, then
let me go.
    “What should we do with her?” Devlin said,
eyeing Tasha’s prone form. “Lash would really like her—”
    “Send her home,” I said, grimacing at that
unsavory fate. “Her father can punish her worse than we could.
Maybe he’ll marry her off.”
    “You don’t want vengeance?” Danial said,
astonished. “After all she did?”
    “This was Samuel’s doing, not hers. She could
never have done it by herself.” I turned to him. “All I care about
is that Theo is free.”
    Danial looked at me, then quickly looked
away.
    “Bring her to me,” Titus grated out.
    Devlin picked Tasha up, and brought her over.
Titus held his hand over her heart, and said something. His hand
glowed, and she writhed as if in pain. Then the glow sank into her
skin, and she stopped moving. “She’ll never again do any magic, or
even be able to handle a spell of any kind,” Titus said, still
angry. “She deserves worse, but this will do.”
    “Someone want to clue me in here?” Danial
said. “I have no idea what just happened.”
    “Theo was under a love spell,” Terian
supplied. “I wasn’t strong enough to break it, so Sar called Titus.
Devlin came with him. Titus broke it.”
    Danial’s eyes narrowed. “I know you,” Danial
said, rounding on Devlin, who was licking his lips. “What did Sar
have to promise you this time, Dev? It had to be a lot, to get your
help with Theo, knowing how you feel about him.”
    “Nothing she hadn’t already promised me
before,” Devlin said arrogantly.
    Danial moved to speak again, but Titus
interrupted. “I would have done this in any case, Danial. I was
once under a love spell myself. Devlin speaks the truth.”
    “Thank you, then,” Danial said, clasping
Titus’s hand. “Can I repay you?”
    “The poison you let me take is good enough,”
Titus grinned. “Easily worth tonight’s trouble.”
    Danial looked uncomfortable, but just nodded,
and let go of Titus’s hand.
    “What now?” I said, gazing at Theo
lovingly.
    “My son and I will teleport you and Theo
home,” Titus rumbled. “It’s almost dawn. You’ll sleep at least
eight hours once you fall asleep. You and Theo will wake at the
same time, as before.”
    I went to sit beside Theo’s prone form.
“Where is he now?” I said, glancing at Titus. “Waiting in the
dream?”
    “No. He’s sleeping deeply, a sleep he can’t
wake from unless you join him in the dream.”
    “Why?” I asked slowly. “Is that a side effect
of being released from the love spell?”
    Titus shook his head. “No. That I did to give
you time.”
    “Time for what?”
    “Time for me,” Devlin said, encircling me in
his arms. “Titus, you need to return me to Hayden before you take
Theo and Sar. I need every bit of night that is left. Afterwards, I
need you to get back to Canada and finish up what you were
doing.”
    “Very well,” Titus said, turning to Devlin.
“We should go now, then.”
    Devlin cupped my face in his hands. “Tell me
you love me, Sar.”
    The touch of his cool hands on my face
startled me. I blinked, then leaned into them contentedly. “You
first,” I teased.
    “I love you,” he said simply, his golden eyes
searching mine.
    I hugged him tight. “I do love you,” I said
softly. “And I thank you for this.”
    “Remember your promise,” he said, his eyes
tinged red. “For I will remember it.”
    I pulled back from him and nodded.
    Dev kissed me again with everything he had.
When he felt me melt into his embrace, he pulled back and sank his
fangs into the side of my neck. I let out a gasp, trying to pull
back from him.