Free Running in Fear: Ghost Warrior by Trinity Blacio Page B

from their eyes as if they too felt her pain.
    “We do Lissa, we feel everything you do. Even though we are not yet bonded, there is a special connection to you, that all of us feel. Your emotions are so strong, how can we not hurt for you?” Pierre whispered kissing her lips softly. “I’m sorry Lissa, if I could take your pain away I would.”
    Even through her tearful eyes Lissa saw the torment in Pierre’s gaze. Vines moved up over his legs and stomach as she slid into his arms holding onto him tight. Her plants joined all of them in a way that shocked all of them.
    “Pierre, Nikola, Castor, what is going on?” She tried to sit up, but the vines hugged her tighter as they moved over Castor and Nikola, now binding all of them together. Red flowers opened up on the vines, thorn like stems poked, and broke her skin, and theirs drawing small amounts of their blood, and exchanging it with a clear liquid from the plant.
    Nikola didn’t move as he studied the vine-like plant, and then he smiled, his gaze lifted to hers. “It will be okay. It’s their way of binding us together, so if anything should happen to you, we would be able to find you through the plants. Well damn!” Nikola grunted, and his head fell back, as so did Castor’s. Pierre’s hold on her grew tighter as he too grunted, and that is when she felt it under her. All three men had just come.
    In spite of everything, Lissa tried to hide the small smile that formed on her lips, facing into Pierre’s chest.
    “I’m glad you find this so amusing. Are you okay?” Pierre grinned down at her, kissing her nose.
    Lissa sighed and laid her head back down on his chest, as the vines slowly moved off of them. “I’m numb Pierre, my emotions are all over the place, and I don’t even trust myself anymore. I feel like I’m half a person, that I’m not good…”
    Pierre kissed her lips hard, shutting her last words, and making her forget everything but him. He pulled back, and tipped her chin up looking down at her. “Don’t ever say anything like that Lissa. We all have our faults, but you are ours, and to us you are perfect.”
    Nikola stood next to Castor and held out his hand to help her up. Lissa put her small hand into his bigger one and he pulled her up into his arms.
    “Pierre is right, don’t ever think you are less than we are, Lissa, because you are not. You are the woman that holds the key to our happiness, the one who will carry our children someday, and the woman who keeps our souls safe inside here.” He placed his hand over her heart.
    “Every time we go into battle, we leave ourselves vulnerable, and you are the only one who will be able to bring us back. We’re hoping you’ll be able to help Adonis. That you’ll be able to bring him back, when we can’t.” Pierre and Castor joined Nikola putting their hand on her heart.
    Once more, tears fell down her face, and landed on their hands. “How can I bring him back? Tell me what to do Nikola? I want my family whole.”
    “Then I guess we should get working at this, before he does more damage than he already has.” Remi said behind them.
    Lissa stepped back and watched as Marsha, Jaycee, Suzanne and her mates formed a circle around her. Even her mates joined the circle leaving her alone. Marsha smiled at her, and stepped up to her taking her hand.
    “When Adonis and Pierre were given their lives back, they were given the gift to separate themselves from their souls when they went into battle. That way if something happened to them, you, their female mate could bring them back, they could heal. Adonis has placed his soul inside of you, or should I say, it has moved inside of you. As soon as the beast took control of Adonis, his soul fled inside of you.” Marsha walked around her sprinkling herbs around her.
    “You are one with nature, Lissa, look inside you, and see Adonis. Call him to you. Don’t be afraid, because you are the one person he cannot hurt. You are his life, as the