"I said I'm scared, Tabby. Really scared. I dreamed during my nap that Kyrian and I were killed by Desiderius."
Tabitha hung up the phone, terrified. She'd never heard so much fear in Amanda's voice. Worse, she knew her sister's powers-if Amanda had foreseen her own death...
Without hesitation, Tabitha called Acheron.
"Hey, Ash," she said, noting the way Valerius's attention turned from his pizza to her. "I have a problem. Amanda just called and said that she had dreamed her own death and last night I ran across something really spooky. It-"
Ash appeared before her. "What?" he asked.
Tabitha froze for a second as she realized what Ash had just done. He really was scary at times.
She hung up the phone again and repeated everything, including details about the ghost they'd seen the night before.
Ash got a faraway look in his eyes, tilting his head as if listening to someone.
"Can you see her death?" she asked him.
Ash stood there, his heart thumping wildly as he tried to clear the mist that surrounded Amanda and Kyrian's future.
He saw nothing.
He heard nothing.
Dammit. It was why he did his best never to let anyone too close to him. Anytime he allowed himself to care about someone or they were a part of his own future, he was blind to their destinies.
There was nothing but blackness where Kyrian and Amanda were concerned and he hated that most of all.
"Talk to me, Ash."
He looked back at Tabitha and heard and felt the fear and panic in her mind. Her thoughts that rambled as she sought a comfort he couldn't give.
Even her future was forbidden to him now.
"Her destiny was to be happy," he said quietly. But the key word to that statement was was. Free will could, and often did, alter fate.
What had changed?
Something must have and Amanda had glimpsed it in her sleep.
He held enough belief in Amanda's powers not to doubt her in the least If she foresaw their deaths, then it was a likely outcome unless he could find the cause and change it before it was too late.
Ash closed his eyes as he let himself feel the minds of the humans. He searched for what could possibly change Amanda's fate, but he found nothing.
Nothing.
Dammit!
Valerius was behind him now. Ash stepped aside so that his back wasn't exposed to the Roman.
"Tell me exactly what happened last night," Ash said to Tabitha.
Tabitha related the whole scene with the ghost while Valerius filled in a few details.
"Urian!" Ash called, summoning his Spathi contact.
Tabitha frowned. Ash was acting very strange and she could sense his worry. "Who's Urian?"
Before she finished the question another tall, insanely handsome man appeared in her kitchen. Dressed in black leather pants and a black shirt, he had white-blond hair and blue eyes.