Warriors of Poseidon 06 - Atlantis Betrayed

break you. He’ll kill me anyway. Just get out now. Save yourself.”
    Christophe looked at the box, and he looked back at Gideon. And then he smiled. “I’ll climb in your damn box as many times as you like. Or I’ll show you how to work this pretty gem.” He held up the Siren. “I won’t do both, and I won’t do either until you let her go.”
    Gideon threw Fiona on the bed. “I don’t care about her. Just show me how to use the jewel. The full power, as you willingly promised, Atlantean.”
    “The full power, Fae,” Christophe said. He held the Siren up in the air, calling on Poseidon for aid. He pushed his battered, aching mind to focus harder than it ever had before and pull more power than he had ever channeled.
    “Full power,” he shouted. “For Atlantis!”
    He pushed. With everything he had and everything he was, he pushed power through the aquamarine and focused every ounce of his own magic and the magic of the gem to do exactly what it had been created to do, but with a little tweak of his own. Christophe did what he had willingly promised to do.
    He used the full power of the Siren to enthrall a Fae prince.

Chapter 39
    The air swirled with shadows, and suddenly Fiona leapt from the bed and raced across the room to stand between Gideon and Christophe. From the air itself, the shadows wavered and re-formed into the image of Justice’s sword, which she held in arms trembling with its weight.
    “Come near him and I’ll kill you myself,” she told the Fae, her voice quiet and deadly. “He is mine and I won’t give him up so easily.”
    Christophe stared at the sword, wondering if the blow to his head had damaged his mind. “How did you—”
    “I took a chance and shadowed it, hoping the magic door to Fae Wonderland would recognize me as part Fae and let me in carrying it,” Fiona said. “Remember when I talked to Justice? I borrowed it and hid it under my coat.”
    “I can’t believe he let you touch his precious sword.”
    “I can’t believe we’re talking about this now,” she snapped.
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    She was right. He called to power every element he could touch, and sent fire and water and earth and air soaring through his body, through his magic, toward the Fae. Right now, he needed to verify that he really had enthralled Gideon.
    Atlantean power met Fae power and question met answer. Christophe had succeeded in wielding the Siren correctly. Gideon na Feransel, prince of the Unseelie Court, was firmly in Christophe’s power.
    “Maybe I should make him dance,” Christophe muttered.
    “Maybe you should get on with it, so I can put this sword down.”
    Christophe marveled at her courage and strength and was so humbled by her love that again, just for an instant, he felt that he could never deserve her. Then he looked at the hated box and back at Fiona, and he realized that they deserved each other.
    “We’re better together than apart,” he said. “Isn’t that what love truly means?”
    She almost dropped the sword. “I’m a little busy here for philosophical discussions. Come on, we have to get out of here before he hits us with some kind of Fae super whammy.”
    Christophe carefully took the sword, placed it on the edge of the bed, and then pulled his protesting love into his arms and kissed her thoroughly.
    “There will be no whammy, super or otherwise. I have enthralled him with the gem he sought so hard to control.”
    He watched the realization dawn on her face. “Willingly spoken. But all you promised was to show him the full power. Which you did, by ramming it down his throat.”
    “Exactly.”
    “Have I told you how much I love you?”
    “You can spend an eternity telling me,” he said seriously. “It will never be enough.”
    “Will you do me a favor?”
    “Anything.”
    She pointed to the box. “Destroy that damn thing.”
    “Gladly.” He sent ball after ball of pure blue energy smashing into the hated box until it exploded into tiny shards of wood. Fiona and he watched from behind his energy shield as it burned and, after ensnaring the Fae in a web of glittering strands of power, he turned to his woman and kissed her senseless.
    Declan burst into the room. “Hey, cut out the mushy stuff. Let’s get out of here. I feel waterlogged.”
    Fiona rushed over to hug her brother, who hugged her back for a minute then squirmed out of her embrace.
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