Emanate: Insight Series ((Insight) Web of Hearts and Souls) Read Online Free Page B

even searched for her. I have time.”
    “No, you don’t. The time is now. You tell her now.”
    In a flash, I pushed him against his Jeep and had his shirt balled in my fist. “There is a risen dead man in my guest room, a Phoenix and shadowed soul in my living room. Explain to me how we can ascend if none of our affairs are in order. How can we ascend if we are not at peace?”
    “That dead man is going to let out your secret. You know he will.” He unclasped my hand and stood straight.  “When you ascend, you will have the power to take out Donalt—problem solved.”
    Justus. A man that served with my father, with Willow’s, who’d died long ago, had risen with the last trial. Not looking a day over the age of twenty, and just as Brady stated, well aware of every lore I’ve kept from Willow. 
    Problem solved, my ass.
    If only it were that simple. If only I didn’t know about another reality. If I didn’t know about every spell that was weaved together to bring down seven Master Escorts that were basically Gods. If only I weren’t indebted to people like Phoenix, Aden, Skylynn, and every other soul that was pulled into this war against evil Gods.
    Brady didn’t get that. He saw this as black and white. Chara first. Defend home first. But the thing is, with all these memories fresh in my mind , I wasn’t exactly sure where my true home was. I wasn’t exactly sure who deserved my undying loyalty—because I wanted to appease them all.
    “Has Dad gotten into your head again?” I bit out. “Is that where this is coming from?”
    “No. This is me, Landen. I let this go on for far too long. I haven’t told a soul about you and your best friend Drake. Keep pushing me, and I will. You’re not in debt to him. His queen has been found. It’s time for you to take control of your celestial heritage.”  He let out a curse. “I don’t know what’s going on in your head, man, why you would even hesitate to protect Chara. You know the borders are weak. August told us that right now you may very well be facing both Saturn and Neptune. That’s not good, brother. Saturn will make you focus on what really matters: home, shedding ways that no longer serve you, and Neptune will give you illusions to make everything confusing. This is home. Shed this past I see in your eyes, and drop the illusion that you are indebted to any course beyond what that mark on your chest is telling you to take.”
    “Until you know what I know, until you know every single detail of this twisted fate—stay out of it.”
    “Tell me, then. Tell me why you are running from your own promises—promises you made when you created this dimension.”
    “You couldn’t comprehend it.”
    “Why? Because I’m not a king like Drake or a Phoenix? Because I’m nothing more than a Rampart Warrior from divine royal blood? You can hide behind any curse you want, but we both know what you’re afraid of. You have the strongest warriors in existence at your command, and you have chosen to play out this part for her. I don’t care what you know—I know you’re acting like a coward . And we don’t deserve to be in second, third, or fourth place on your to-do list. You have to rise to protect us. That is the only way you are going to take down the beast Donalt has become.”
    I jerked my Jeep door open. “Tell you what, Brady. Go home. Look in Felicity’s eyes. Ask yourself how sure you are that you’re right. Tell yourself that you have no doubt—that Allie will not lose the foundation she was born into simply because her father was too much like his father, too worried about me and my own to consider the two of them. You think I’m a coward. You’re the coward. You need another man to make a move before you can push through with your life.”
    His glare was glacial. “The difference between me and you, Landen, is that I’m not afraid of my future. I trust my heart.”
    I only offered a scowl as I peeled away. He was a fool. Any man that