Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates novel Chapter 127

Colby

The second Lia’s fingers brushed the relic, she went rigid.

“Uh-” Rain’s voice cut through the thick silence. “What the hell is happening?” I didn’t answer right away. I was too busy watching her.

Her chest rose and fell, shallow and slow. Her eyes, wide and unblinking, stared at something none of us could see. The relic pulsed faintly in her grip, the jagged edges cutting into her palm, but she didn’t seem to notice.

Rain’s panic escalated. “Colby!” “Calm down.”

“Calm down? Are you seeing her? She’s-she’s frozen! Lia!” He reached for her, but I caught his wrist before he could touch her.

“Wait.”

Rain’s gaze snapped to me, his frustration barely contained. “Wait? For what? For her to stop breathing?!”

“She’s breathing.” I kept my voice steady, even though I didn’t love this either. “Look at her-she’s not in pain; she’s not convulsing. This isn’t an attack”

“Then what is it?”

I hesitated. “A vision, maybe.”

Rain’s mouth opened and then shut. He swallowed, forcing himself to breathe. “A vision.” “Yeah.” I nodded toward her. “Look at her eyes. She’s seeing something.”

Rain still looked ready to bolt, but he hesitated, rubbing the back of his neck “And if she doesn’t snap out of it?”

“She will.”

“You say that like you know.”

I met his gaze. “I don’t. But panicking won’t help.”

Rain muttered a curse under his breath but didn’t argue. He just hovered close, shifting his weight like he was barely holding himself back

Lia still hadn’t moved.

The relic pulsed again, a slow, eerie glow.

And then-she gasped, her whole body jerking like something had slammed into her chest. Rain lunged forward. “Lia-“

She sucked in another breath. “Colby.” Her voice was hoarse.

I stepped closer, steadying her with a hand on her arm. “I’m here.”

She swallowed hard. “I saw-” Her knees buckled.

Rain caught her before I could, his grip firm as he helped her stay upright. “Whoa, hey, easy.” “Something is waking up.”

Rain’s grip tightened on her arms. “What’s waking up?” She lifted her head, her expression grim.

“Dragons.”

Rain let out a nervous laugh. “Well, damn. Guess you are psychic.”

Lia shot him a withering look, still shaking from whatever she’d just seen. “Rain, shut up,” I said flatly.

He held up his hands. “What? I’m just saying-” “Shut up and wait.”

Rain huffed but clamped his mouth shut, shifting his weight impatiently.

Lia’s fingers clenched around the relic like she was trying to ground herself. Her breathing was still uneven, but she wasn’t panicking. Yet.

I kept my grip steady on her arm. “What did you see?”

She swallowed hard, eyes flickering between us before finally settling on me. “It’s waking up,” she whispered. Rain tensed beside me. “The dragon?”

She nodded, her grip tightening around the relic. “And we’re running out of time.” Well shit.

“Hey,” I said gently, shifting closer to her. “We’re in this together, Lia. You don’t have to carry all of it on your own.” She smiled. “I know.”

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Lia

My mates, god bless them, didn’t know how to help me but to be honest I wasn’t sure how they could help me with any of this because it was really complicated. When I took a whole of that relic, I saw these flashes of images in my head.

It was fucking scary.

I saw that there was going to be a lot of danger and destruction. Then I saw someone that had to be me fighting dragons, but my mates were by my side. To be honest, a lot of the images were hard to make out. They were flashing through my mind so fast that I could barely wrap my mind around them.

Yet the one thing I knew to be true was that there was going to be some kind destruction from the dragons, especially after the older and stronger ones started to wake up.

We had time, but time was of the essence. Somehow, I was going to have to try to figure out just what was going on and how to stop it.

But we needed help. The supernatural races needed to come together to fight against the dragons. If we didn’t then the chances were high that we were going to die.

I was eager to get back up to the surface. When we got there, we were going to have to figure out what to do and I wasn’t looking forward to it.

My mates were doing their best to calm me down, but there was only so much they could do. They hadn’t seen what I saw when I held that dragonstone. It shook me to my very core, making me wonder if I was doing the right thing.

If I was even going in the right direction!

“I need to talk to the elder,” I told my mates when we got to the surface.

The next step was to drive back to the town-unless they had left. Part of me did wonder if they were going to betray us in the long run. I honestly wouldn’t put it past them to pull one over on us.

Look at what happened before. They couldn’t trust us and we couldn’t trust them but we had to to trust each other. That was the fucked up part about all of this.

I shook my head and looked out the window, enjoying the wind through my hair. My hope was that I would be able to get some answers when I was able to speak with the elders of the coven. Maybe for the first time in a long time I would be able to figure out just what was going on with me and what my role was in all of this.