Hold me! I project, my mental voice fraying at the edges, tearing through the static of the magical attack. Kade, hold me to the earth!
Kade doesn't hesitate. He pushes his Alpha energy into the mate bond. It is a roaring, unyielding drumbeat of golden genesis energy. I grab it, routing it through my own nervous system, using his biological rhythm to anchor myself against the chaotic, parasitic pull of the siphons.
I feel the siphons trying to drain the ley-lines. I feel the dark magic trying to burn the physical nodes.
And I push back.
I don't use technology. I don't use magic. I use my own mortal, broken, entirely human nervous system, fortified by the absolute, unyielding love of my mate, as a grounding rod. I take the full force of the magical overload, absorbing the chaotic freque
