Eternal Echoes, Emblem of Eternity Trilogy Book 2 by Angela Corbett Read Free Book Online

nothing had ever happened.
    I glared at Alex, before glancing back at the bracelet. It looked exactly the same as before. “Some warning about that would have been nice.”
    He ignored the comment. “It’s activated. That will help the situation, for now.”
    I lifted my head, widening my eyes. “For now? What does that mean?” How many more magical experiments was I going to be subjected to?
    “It means we’re worried, but not enough to take more intrusive steps yet.”
    I laughed out loud. “More intrusive?” I waved my hand over the bracelet and then gestured to my back. “You can both already find me through our soul mate bonds—”
    “—Provided no one has severed it like a few months ago,” Alex said, cutting me off. “The bracelet makes you safer.”
    I shifted my weight to my other leg so I could see Emil better. I usually had an easier time reasoning with him. He trusted me to take care of myself, and gave me more leeway. It might have something to do with him watching me control Caleb’s Daevos Clan. The same Clan that had tried to take me, and kill Alex and Emil. Alex had been knocked out at the time, so he wasn’t nearly as impressed by powers he hadn’t witnessed. I’d saved Emil’s life though, so he seemed to think I was a bit more self-sufficient than Alex did. Or it could be that Emil was still working for the Daevos and wanted me to end up in a dangerous situation. That was always an option—one Alex seemed to believe some of the time—but considering the things Emil had told me and the flashbacks I’d had, I didn’t think Emil was evil.
    Emil had been rather quiet throughout the discussion. “You’re okay with this?” I asked.
    He licked his lips, dragging the bottom lip back with his tongue and biting it slightly as he nodded once.
    I threw my arms in the air. “You’re usually the sane one!”
    Emil’s mouth quirked.
    “So you’re fine with my emergency bracelet contact going straight to Alex?”
    Emil watched me steadily. “This is better than the other options he came up with.”
    I eyed Emil warily, purposely ignoring Alex. “What other options?”
    “Locking you in your bedroom and never letting you out again.”
    My eyes flashed to Alex in time to see him roll his eyes. “You’re making it sound like I want her in jail.”
    Emil raised one eyebrow. “I believe that’s how it was proposed.”
    Sheesh. It’s a good thing I had Emil on my side. If locking me in my room was the first option Alex had wanted to take, I didn’t want to know what the steps after that would have been.
    Emil shifted in his chair. “We don’t know who’s aware of your powers, Evie. That’s dangerous.”
    I agreed with Emil, and was worried about leaks within the Amaranthine, but considering Alex was ready to go all Silence of the Lambs on me, I decided I needed to make a case for why the next dangerous situation shouldn’t get me locked in a pit—or bedroom. “Alex only told the Amaranthine leaders, and even that was an edited version,” I said, looking at Alex. His face remained impassive, but I thought I saw a slight tic at his temple. “No one else knows.”
    Emil ran a hand through his hair, taking my attention off Alex. “We don’t know who was leaking information to Caleb within the Amaranthine. There are too many unanswered questions to be sure about that,” he said. “Neither one of us is willing to take the risk of something happening to you again.”
    I laughed. “Maybe your memory is screwy, but I was the one who saved both of you from Caleb and his Clan, not the other way around. Clearly, I’m not the one in need of protection.”
    Alex shook his head. “We don’t know enough about your powers to count on them working again like they did in the cave with Caleb. Have you used them since?”
    No. Truthfully, I was a bit scared to try. If they did work, I probably had more power than anyone ever should, and no idea what my limitations were, or what the