Destiny (The Chosen One Trilogy:Book Three) Read Free

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wielder’s amulet gave me away. So far as anyone knew, I was the
only one capable of doing both healing and sorcery.
    He grunted. “You don’t look like much.”
    “Yeah. I get that a lot.” Whatever it was the
people of Quelondain had imagined the Chosen One was supposed to
look like, I didn’t seem to fit the bill. We were circling so that
Roger and his opponent were behind me. I glanced back quickly and
was glad to see the jaguar situated on top of the black wolf, its
jaws clamped around the other’s neck. That left my opponent
standing far from anyone else. I sheathed my swords. “I don’t
suppose I could convince you to just run away and not come
back?”
    He grinned. “Not likely. When I get you back
to Braw, I’ll get a hero’s welcome.”
    It was my turn to grunt. I had been Braw’s
prisoner once before and I wasn’t willing to let it happen again. I
let the silver waves flow in front of my face and quickly grabbed
the light colored one. “Just so you know, I’m sorry about this.” I
threw the wave at him and the bolt of energy sent him flying
backwards. I crouched down and tried to swallow the lump in my
throat. I hadn’t lied with my apology. I hated killing.
    “Hayden!” Jasper’s worried voice made its way
to me from in the direction in which I had previously been
hiding.
    “I’m here, Hun.” I stood so he could see
me.
    He wiped his dagger on his pant leg, sheathed
it, and stalked over to me. His arms crushed me to his chest. “I
told you to stay.”
    I held him tightly and took a few deep
breaths. “I’m ok. Roger was under two of them. He killed one. I got
the other.” I took a step back and looked him over. “Are you
ok?”
    He nodded. “Colton got a nasty bite on his
leg and Luke took a knife in his side, but other than that,
everything went well.” He smiled. “You’ll never guess who the three
Majs are.”
    “I’ll take a long shot and say one of them is
Rainen. As for the other two, I have no idea.” We started walking
to where the rest of our pack was standing around. “Are they
hurt?”
    “No. Nothing serious. Just some bumps to the
head.”
    “So who are the other two?”
    “The blond man’s name is Harold. The brunette
is Gina. They’re a mated pair. They’re also Rainen’s personal body
guards.”
    “What about the guy in the clearing?”
    “I’m not sure. They’re not talking.”
    I found my brother-in-law sitting with his
back against a tree, his eyes closed. Tara was kneeling by his
side, trying to stop the bleeding with her hand. I squatted beside
them.
    “Well, now. Why would you let someone stick a
knife in you? Don’t you know it hurts?” Luke’s dark brown eyes
opened just a slit and he managed a half grin at my joke. I let the
green waves run over his body and picked the light green one, or as
most healers liked to call it, the safe one. This wave simply used
a being’s own energy and concentrated it to the area that needed to
be healed. Luke sucked in his breath and let it out in a hiss
through his teeth as the wound healed itself. He inhaled deeply a
few times.
    “Thank you.” He leaned forward and kissed my
forehead.
    I smiled and patted his cheek. “No problem.
Just don’t do it again. Mel would kill me if I didn’t get you
home.” I looked up and took Jasper’s hand.
    “Colton is worse than I thought.” His eyes
were narrowed as he pulled me up. He hesitated. “I don’t…”
    I raised an eyebrow at him. “You don’t
what?”
    “You might have to use the other wave.”
    “Jasper! If it’s that bad, then why the hell
are we standing around talking? Where is he?”
    My mate led the way without saying another
word. Colton lay under a bush not far from where Rainen and the
other two Majs were sitting with their hands still tied behind
them. Matthew was straddled across the fox’s chest trying to keep
him from moving. Alex and Ben were pushing on his right hind leg
which was wrapped in a blanket. Even in the dark I