Ivy: "It's the only way. Please trust me, my love." I begged Riot, who was still arguing with me despite shifting, to take me to the sky like I had asked him to. "I need you to start burning her from the ground up, distract her with your fire, weaken her skin for me, baby. I know you are scared. I am, too. But I know this is what I must do." I yelled through the whooshing of the wind beneath his massive wings. Relaxing once, his fire hit Ilya's skin as she coiled around herself, preparing to strike us down. I took a deep breath, chanting for the charm where I had locked my mates away to release them, then fall back to the same earth I conjured it from. My mind whirled, knowing that if this went south the way Sebastian swore it would, they would need each other to survive the breaking