“Amelia…”
“Goodbye Luc. Have a nice eternity with…with someone else’s Chosen One,” I said interrupting the threatening way he snarled my name, before I dropped the phone on the counter, along with my keycard and walked out the door to the sound of him calling my name before he then cursed it to the Gods.
Cursed it to the Gods that had long ago cursed me with broken fate.
Then I left this…
Heartbreak Hotel.
Lucius
Chapter 9
Oblivion
The very moment she fought my control over her Void and realised what it was I was doing, was the same moment when I finally discovered the limits to my power. It was as if the cord had been severed completely and I woke up with a roar of rage unlike any other!
It was like waking up in some kind of Hellish oblivion that was trying to drown me in pain and blind me with the darkness of her Void. Getting inside her mind had been a battle in itself. But staying there as long as I had was the reason I actually took one step and found myself falling to my knees. My strength was trying to fail me as I had never once felt so drained of power before in my eternal life. It was when I realised two things, both of which sent me hurtling into panic and rage. One was how strong Amelia was against me and secondly, in reference to the first, it just proved how strong this fucking witch was!
And now Amelia, my Chosen One, was out there and vulnerable in the world, stupidly leaving herself wide open! Gods, I was fucking furious with her, even more so than I was with myself for letting this happen! Gods, but she should fucking know better!
A thought that forced me to find my footing so I could stagger to where my phone lay on the table next to the bed I had slept in. Doing so with rest as the very last thing on my mind. No, I had only needed to do so in order to slip into her Void and take control. Usually, with most beings, I could do this whilst still awake but with Amelia this was not the case. I had needed to focus my mind solely on getting into hers, casting everything else out and doing so in the hope that all it would need was a quick view of her surroundings.
But the pain she had showed me she was in, was like being accused all over again. For if she believed herself to be the only one in pain, then she was utterly and foolishly mistaken.
Gods, but I could barely think and actually found myself holding my phone for a full thirty seconds before I knew what to do with it!
“Fuck!” I snarled before getting my ass into action, starting with barking orders at those I knew would get shit done!
“What do you need?” The gruff, deep voice asked at the other end.
“I need to know where in the US Kingston Plaza is and what hotel faces a sign for it, and I need this two minutes ago!” I snapped quickly.
“Gotcha,” Dante said before cutting the call and at the same time I was out of the door and heading to Dom’s office. This was where I knew he would be, seeing as he had his own people to organise and had many looking into the leads he thought he had…leads which I knew he hadn’t. Because no one knew Amelia like me, not even her parents, but there had been little point highlighting this fact, not when it would merely antagonize the situation between us. For Dom may have had no choice but to accept my claim, but that didn’t mean things between us wouldn’t remain tense for a while.
Which was why the moment every fucking lead ran cold, I’d had no choice but to enter her Void. The part of a mind that enabled me to control a person and it was one that I had refrained from entering in a very long time.
However, years ago, I would do this by simply whispering the scenes I wanted her to see, not needing even half the amount of energy to do so. For in the early days, I had done this to ensure that she would dream of me. That I would remain a permanent figure in her mind. It may have been a cruelty, teasing her with thoughts that she believed she could never have, but at the time it was a necessary evil. For I needed to continue to be a constant in her life and this was the safest way I could think to do that. At least until I could finally become a constant in the physical sense.
But during the time I had been absent from her dreams, it seemed as though she had grown in her strength in shutting me out. I could quite honestly say that I had never struggled to control anyone before as I did only minutes ago, for even her mother’s mind had been easier to access in her dreams all that time ago. Making me question if this gift had been passed down from her mother?
Even with the witch, there was nothing there but an impenetrable wall facing me. There had been nothing for me to access, telling me it was a spell that was hiding the Voids of both herself and that of her growing army. But with Amelia, there were holes in her defenses, ones only there as she slept.
Now the getting in had been the easy part. No, it had been remaining there that had been the real battle facing me and giving me no other option but to fight for the right. But then, whilst I was there, I knew all I needed was a single clue. Just one. Which had me hoping for a hotel logo on top of stationery, a welcome pack or Hell, a chocolate on her pillow would have been enough, just so long as it had the name of the place she was staying on it. But then when that came up empty, I knew I had to push her to the window so I could see for myself if there was a sign or anything. And that was where I had hit my jackpot.
Which was why I walked right inside his office without knocking and demanded,
“I need a helicopter here and ready to go as soon as possible.” Dom heard this and he was out of his chair in a heartbeat. Keira, who looked as if she was being torn apart emotionally, also now stood from the sofa she had been dozing on.
“You have found her?!” she asked quickly, at the same time her husband growled,
“Where?” Which was the only question that mattered to him. This was naturally because he feared for her safety nearly as much as I did, something we had both discussed at length. Especially after seeing for ourselves that the witch was obviously still not done with her.
“I am waiting on the details, but she is near a place called Kingston Plaza.”
“How do you know this?” Keira asked me with a questioning frown, but I didn’t have time for a lecture on moral code so told her,
“I have my ways.”
“It matters not, only that we get our daughter back,” Dom said having my back as we had come to an understanding, he and I. Our priority was solely to get Amelia back. Now, as to our own personal issues, well they would have to take a backseat.
“You need to make her listen, you need to make her understand…maybe I would be better…”
“No!” I snapped before Keira could try and convince me that she was better at handling this.
“You’ve already spoken to her and it achieved nothing,” I reminded her, unable to keep the annoyance that knowledge brought me after the conversation they’d had with her finally came to light.
“But…”
“No buts, Keira, Luc is right and as her Chosen, then it is his decision.” At this Keira wasn’t the only one to look at him as if he had been taken over by another entity. Hell, even I was questioning who the Hell he was!
“Oh, don’t fucking look at me like that, I may not like this fucking reality, Luc, but I think we both know where fighting against the Fates has gotten me in the past,” Dom snapped making me reply,