Her muscles ached from the rigorous training she’d been through over the past few weeks in preparation for the inevitable invasion and the volatile blood connection. But it wasn’t her sore body that caused uneasiness to stir her soul on this stormy night. She glanced out the bedroom window and watched thick clouds roll over the mountain peaks. Distant thunder echoed off the rock walls. With her powers growing in strength and intensity, the sound hurt her sensitive ears. A faint, familiar scent assaulted her senses. As she inhaled, her stomach soured and lurched. The tiny hairs on the back of her neck tingled with foreboding and she knew it with every fiber of her being. Grayson had found her. Her breath came in a ragged burst as panic invaded her body. She gripped the bed sheets and noted how her fingers trembled with fear. Dari reached for Mikel, to wake him but he was already stirring. “He’s here!” she blurted out. Without haste, Mikel climbed from the bed. “I know. Come.
