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Only, just like in the ruin, it didn’t respond. Probably because the fuckers in the helicopter launched a net. It settled over him and Rebecca and quelled his ability.
“Fuck!” he swore.
“What’s wrong?” she asked.
“They came prepared.” This time Cetus had made sure he couldn’t simply vanish from their clutches. The netting had somehow been woven with bits of meteorite. He couldn’t leave.
Couldn’t do anything as men dropped to the ground and ran for them.
Could only hold Rebecca tight and murmur, “Sorry.” Looked like they wouldn’t be celebrating naked later on.
If ever.
Tranquilizer darts hit them, their content potent enough to take even his ass down.
He woke in shackles in the back of a moving van, but even worse, he wasn’t alone.
A frightened Rebecca sat tethered across from him and, as if to taunt their impotence, within a glass case strapped between them, the fucking orb.
CHAPTER 16
I am such an idiot.Rebecca couldn’t help the feeling, seeing her current dilemma. In her defense, hearing Sage’s ominous words in the library had sent Rebecca into a panic. “What do you mean Scorpio will die without me?”
The woman had ducked her head and whispered, “I see an ominous future if you’re not by his side. Death. Destruction. A world in flames.”
“But how am I supposed to help? I’m not a warrior. I cringe when I kill a bug.”
At that, Sage had shrugged. “I don’t see the why, just the result.” She put a hand on her belly. “There will be no hope for any of us if Scorpio doesn’t retrieve the relic.”
“Well, maybe you should have stressed thatbeforethey left,” huffed Rebecca, slightly miffed. “It’s too late now. Even if I hopped the fastest jet, I wouldn’t make it in time.”
“Not true. There is one left who can take you.”
It took her a moment to blurt out, “Do you mean Aquarius?”
“No, he’s needed here, but another has just returned from a sabbatical. Capricorn can take you.”
“Assuming he agrees.”
“He already has. I spoke to him before finding you. He’s waiting in the portal room. Hurry. There is little time to stop what is to come.”
With that warning, Rebecca had bolted from the library. She put her feet on the stairs but didn’t have to do anything, as the tower took over, zooming her to the bottom, where a burly fellow, his face covered in a shaggy beard, stood waiting by a pile of luggage.
“You must be Rebecca. I’m Capricorn. I heard you need to go through the portal in Maine to meet up with the crew.”
“I’m sorry. I don’t mean to impose,” she’d stated.
“When Sage speaks, we listen.” His lips quirked. “Although, at times, I think she uses that to her advantage. The things she had me buy while I was away…” He indicated a bulging knapsack.
“I don’t see how I can help, though,” Rebecca had grumbled as she walked quickly to match his long stride.
“We often don’t know what we’re capable of until put to the test,” his words of wisdom.
“Yeah, well, I don’t see how I’ll be able to do much, seeing as how the last time Scorpio starbeamed us, I passed out for a bit.”
“Starbeaming is hard on unmodified bodies. Portal travel, however, is much gentler. You should be fine.”
He entered a room that had her gaping. Scorpio had mentioned the portal room when they’d passed it on the way to the stardust room, but he’d not said anything about the size of it. Massive. As her gaze moved around, she noted thirteen free-standing arches formed a crescent-moon shape on the back end. Embedded in the floor before them, on a stone dais, all but one of them carved with a zodiac symbol. The thirteenth was blank.