Chapter 206

KAI

“Why would you do that?” I screamed at her.

There was only one explanation of how I was unharmed when she was not. She used Nata’s magic on me when I did not even realize it. She saved me instead of herself. I had never been more furious with her than I was in this moment.

Macario and Tilly needed me to move away from her, but I could not do it. I could not let her go.

“We have to let them take care of her. She needs them. Come on,” Xander said. I could hear the same anguish in his voice that I felt.

I placed a kiss to her lips before setting her back on the ground and standing up. He pulled me a little further away to where Zane was. We watched as they assessed her. They spoke lowly to one another, but none of us could hear it.

‘She used Nata’s magic to protect me,’ I told Xander.

I collapsed to the ground under the weight of it all. It was me that should be there and not her. She always took every fucking risk, putting everyone else before herself, when she should have pro