Darron held Tabitha tight, not wanting to let go. He would never let her go. He called forth the bond.
A bolt of lightning shot from his chest and pierced Tabitha's heart. Her heavy eyes snapped open and she gazed at the energy passing between them. Darron's body rattled violently when the power reached through time and anchored his soul to hers. The glow expanded until the room was filled, then it exploded into thousands of shimmering, radiant flakes of light. The flakes landed on their skin and were absorbed. His body hummed with new life.
Who would have thought at their first meeting, when she stabbed him in the arm trying to protect the Seer and he broke her nose, that Darron and Tabitha would become a bonded couple for all eternity?
Through all his lifetimes, Darron had never thought of bonding. But now that he'd found his mother, the Seer, and brought her to his sister, the Awakener, maybe, just maybe, he could have a normal life.
The visions his mother was having though did not bode well for humanity. The baby his sister was carrying would be known as the Time Eraser. The moment she was born, there was a good chance she would simply erase time for all eternity, plunging the universe into nothingness.
There was one chance they had to stop this from happening, but it would mean betraying his sister and handing the infant over to Marcus, the Time Keeper, a madman intent on killing Darron and his family in every lifetime they'd had. He was also the man Tabitha had been given to by her father. Marcus would be even less willing to help them after discovering his promised one had bonded with another.
The bonding of Darron and Tabitha would strengthen each of their powers, and they would need this for the upcoming bloodbond ritual; her power as a Soul Hunter and Influencer, and his as a Soul Hunter and...Death.