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

could tell that
the beige blanket was soaked in blood.
    Matthew looked up, his face grim. “There were
two of them. Both of them grabbed the leg and started pulling.”
    I knelt beside Colton and put a hand on his
head. “It’s ok. I’ll have you fixed up in no time.” I uncovered the
leg and had to take a few deep breaths. Most of the thigh bone was
exposed as well as half of the shin bone. The muscle and skin were
simply hanging on by fibers. “Shit. Ok. Matthew, don’t let him
move.” I ran a light green wave over him without much hope that it
would work. I was right. He had lost too much blood to help repair
the damage himself.
    I looked into Jasper’s sky blue eyes. “I have
to try. I can’t just leave him like this.”
    He nodded. “I know.”
    I picked the second darkest green wave and
spread it over Colton’s leg. I pushed my own energy into him,
giving him the strength he needed to heal the worst of his
injuries. He whined and tried to move under Matthew’s weight. I
switched waves and finished the healing with the safe green. I
watched the muscles reform around the bone, the tissues and fat
covered those, and finally the skin closed. I ran my hand over the
red fur.
    “There you are.”
    Matthew got off of the fox who promptly
jumped up and shook himself. Colton shifted and nodded to me.
    “Thank you.”
    I smiled up at him and started to stand. A
wave of dizziness hit me, black spots filled my vision and I was
forced to sit down. Jasper was kneeling in front of me in a
flash.
    “Are you alright?”
    I felt him take my hands. “Yeah. You know I
always get dizzy after I give someone energy.”
    “I know. I just didn’t think you had given
him that much.”
    I took a deep breath and tried to keep the
world from spinning. “I didn’t.”
    “Can you take it back?” Colton’s voice came
from my left. He had knelt beside me.
    I shook my head and waited a few minutes. I
opened one eye to test my vision and looked directly into Jasper’s
worried face. I smiled. “I’m fine.”
    He glanced down and I nodded. “Him, too.” I
could still feel the little glow of energy sitting in my womb.
    Jasper pulled me up.
    “Ok. Let’s go talk to Rainen.” I led the way
to where the three Majs were sitting. By Jasper’s descriptions,
Harold and Gina were sitting on either side of Rainen. They stood
as I approached. I wanted to laugh. The only form I had ever seen
Rainen in was her wolf form. As a wolf, she was the size of my
horse. As a person, she was an inch shorter than my five feet four
inches. Harold and Gina on the other hand, were extremely tall, the
former standing at least six and a half feet and the latter at a
good six feet even.
    Rainen’s hair was black as the night and fell
in tight ringlets down to the middle of her back. It was tied
loosely at the nape of her neck with a leather string. She looked
to be about forty. Her midnight blue eyes met mine.
    “Rainen.”
    “Hayden.”
    “I see you managed to get yourself in a bit
of a jam.”
    She sneered at me. “Turning my people against
me will be your undoing.”
    I let the surprise I felt show on my face.
“Your people? Those weren’t your people. Those were humans.”
    “I’m a few years older than you are my dear.
I didn’t live to be this old by being gullible.”
    I grunted. “Untie their hands.” My pack
looked at me with doubt and surprise.
    “Are you sure?” Tara glanced back to Rainen
and her guards.
    “They’re not our prisoners. We came here to
free them.”
    Rainen’s eyes narrowed. “Free us from your
own pack?”
    I felt my impatience trying to surface. I was
tired, exhausted even. It had been a long day and an even longer
night, not to mention that I was now low on energy and needed to
sleep to restore it back to its normal levels. I pulled my dagger
from my belt, stalked behind them and cut the ropes that bound
their arms behind their backs.
    “Go check them. They’re humans. They won’t
have marks behind their