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He shook his head slowly.
“But I can’t do that! I don’t have magic, and I certainly can’t send myself into someone else’s dream. Astral projection? That’s just crazy. Nope. There is absolutely no way I did that.”
“But you did.”
Kyryl felt an unfamiliar surge of frustration swept through him, but he tried not to show it. No matter how much she denied it, it was still true. He might have created the location in his dream state, but she was the one who had sought him out.
Everything in him wanted to go to her. He wanted to pull her into his arms and assure her that everything would be fine now that they had found one another, but he had to make her believe him first. Otherwise, he would scare her, and that was the last thing he wanted to do.
“You’re saying you are real and not just a figment of my imagination?”
“I am. Somehow, you found a way to reach out to me through time and space. I was on Earth when you entered my dream state the first time.”
She sputtered in disbelief. “But that’s crazy! How could I do that when I’m on Evo?”
He smiled. “So, you are Charm Barra, owner of Wonderland.”
She nodded, then cocked her head to the side. “Wait! How do you know who I am?”
“Because I am Kyryl Lux, your mate and the one who is destined to love you above all else.”
“Now, I know this is a dream,” she said, laughing again. “This has to be because of that silly wish I made down by the…oh shit.”
“What wish?”
“We had a Festival of Lights here on Evo, and we wrote down wishes on these paper lanterns. But that still doesn’t make sense. Dozens of people made wishes that night. How could mine be the only one that came true?”
“What did you wish for?”
She looked at him for a long moment in silence. “For a mate,” she said softly. “I made a wish to find my mate.”
His lips curved into a satisfied grin. “Your wish came true.”
“But how?” she asked, sounding completely stunned.
Taking the opportunity, he moved a little closer to her. He tried to ignore the sight of her bare body, but it was impossible since she was too damn beautiful.
“Can you tell me what happened when you made the wish?”
Remembering her wound, he gently lifted her arm out of the water to look down at the mark. His skin tingled where it made contact with hers, and his body immediately reacted. His cock began to swell and thicken, but he forced himself to focus on their conversation instead of the need surging through his bloodstream.
“Was it before or after you were injured?”
“It was after.”
As she told him about the Festival of Lights, things started to make sense. The Vyper brothers had created the lake using a combination of Ilius and Dragon Warrior magic. That in itself wasn’t that extraordinary, but Charm had somehow activated the magical wish she’d made when she had bled on the piece of paper.
Blood magic was not only powerful…it could also be unpredictable.
“Whatever brought you to me, I am grateful. I have searched for you for centuries, Charm Barra,” he said, stroking her cheek. “Perhaps it wasn’t the wish alone that connected us, but a combination of the blood magic at the lake, my magic, and fate.”
“I noticed your glowing eyes. Are you a Dragon Warrior? No, wait. You don’t have fangs.”
“I am Ilius. I believe you know my sister, Alestra, and my cousins, Jade, Zarik, Kayn, and Rycor Vyper.”
Her eyes went wide, and she gasped. “But…but that makes you a prince!”
He laughed lightly. “Why does that freak you out more than being able to astral project across the universe?”