Chapter 0850 "But the corruption will spread," Elias says, kneeling down on Gabriel's other side and reaching across him to squeeze my shoulder. "It's not worth it, Ariel - what I watched Gabriel go through? I can't watch you do it too."

"Corruption?" Ben asks, his voice suddenly frantic. "What are you talking about?”

"I've come this far," I say with a sigh, shaking my head at him. "No time like the present. And if it starts to corrupt, I can always just... break the bond."

I sigh, looking down at Gabriel, hoping desperately that it's true.

"Ariel, please," Elias begs.

But it's too late.

I say a little prayer to my grandmother for protection, and close my eyes, and give my wolf a little nod. She stands at the edge of my soul and lifts her nose high, proud and regal, her pretty rose-gold fur blowing in some phantom wind.

And then we accept the bond, which snaps into place between my soul and Gabriel's.

His wolf shifts in his place sunk deep in the oil, eager, hungry. My wolf steps back, afraid and ready to run. I tense, both in my body and in my soul, ready to break the bond to reject him to flee...

But Gabriel's wolf collapses back into the oil, unable to stir.

eyes fluttering open, searching for me. His mouth moves, making shapes, perhaps trying to say my name. And guilt rushes through me as I feel, anew, his pain - his physical pain, and

terrible - the corruption just clangs through him.

reaching out and stroking a

a little, turning his head towards my hand,

happening?" Ben

can corrupt

and

has subsided. I look up and smirk to see him looking down at me with his arms crossed and an eyebrow raised. "You got what you wanted, so? What's your magic

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pull on his magic It comes flooding towards me, as Jackson's does when I pull on it - the magic of a man well used to using it. And to my relief no corruption comes with

functions as a shield, as a block to other magics, a

five years ago, it

as a personal

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himself so that magical influence can't

I realize that...it's

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