“Is that the best you can do, old man?” Mandrake’s voice came from both cobras’ heads and it suddenly struck Valentine that the clan Lord, as powerful as his wyvern form was, could lose the challenge. Something was wrong, very wrong and Valentine knew it. But what? How can Mandrake be more powerful? Although reluctant to leave Seth, the other man hadn’t moved a muscle and Valentine was now convinced that Seth was channeling his power to Hades. Channeling power. If Seth and Hades were mates, then they’d be classed as a single entity. But Mandrake had no mate. Belladonna. It has to be. Although Valentine was reluctant to leave his friend, no one was paying any attention to him as all focus was on the battling behemoths. Dematerializing, Valentine floated toward Mandrake’s gathering of sup