Point of No Return by Tara Fox Hall

I put this spell on Theo,”
Devlin said icily. “I didn’t. If I wanted Theo out of the way, I’d
have had Lash kill him, like he’s wanted to for years. I wouldn’t
have bothered with a spell.”
    “Lash mentioned he was in Russia, that night
he came to see you at my home,” I countered. “When was he there,
Devlin?”
    “He was in Moscow a few years ago,” Devlin
said to me smoothly. “A werelion had been killed there, and he went
to make sure it wasn’t Theo. When he verified it was not, he came
home.”
    “Why send your best man?” Terian asked.
    Devlin rounded on him, snarling. “Because the
person who killed the werelion was Samuel, Terian. He killed him at
his estate. Lash was the only one who was good enough to get in and
out without being detected.”
    “If Devlin did this to Theo, he did it
without my help,” Titus rumbled. “Leri is not skilled enough in
love magic to have done this spell. Logically, he is innocent. That
leaves the next most likely suspect: Samuel himself.”
    I sank down to the floor, sitting in a heap.
“All this time, it was Samuel.”
    Devlin crouched down, and helped me back to
my feet, settling me in a chair. “Why do you say that?”
    “Samuel hated Theo, thought he’d interfered
with me as Danial’s Oathed One. He promised Danial he’d look for
him, and wouldn’t kill him. I thought that meant he was helping us.
Instead, he found a way to keep us apart without breaking his word
to Danial.”
    “Even if Theo found his way back to America
and met Danial and you again, that spell ensured Theo would move
on,” Devlin mused. “Ingenious.”
    “Perseus knew already that you were splitting
up before any of us did,” Terian added. “It makes sense now that
Samuel told him.”
    “I’m not pleased to have ridden to your
rescue, Sar, only to be accused—” Devlin said, glaring at me.
    “Ease off her!” Terian said, blackness
flowing out of him. “She loves you, and she wants to trust you, but
she’s afraid to. She remembers what you did to her, all of it, not
just that day you made love to her, if you can call the first time
she was with you by that moniker.”
    Devlin stared at Terian. “Who are you to tell
me what she feels?”
    “I saw her memories, looking for signs of the
love spell I suspected was on Theo. I saw a lot of you in them,
Devlin, and felt her emotions through every encounter.”
    I flushed. Devlin gazed at Terian, a small
amount of respect in his eyes. “Forget what you saw and felt,” he
said finally. “Sar and I will build our own relationship without
any help from you or magical means.”
    “I’m sorry for suspecting you,” I said
awkwardly. “It made sense at the time.”
    “You were being logical,” Devlin said with a
wave of his hand. “Now that we determined what’s going on and who
is behind it, what do we need to break this spell?”
    “I can break the spell, Devlin,” Titus said,
his warning tone that of stone grating on stone. “But you should
make sure you want me to.”
    “Explain,” Devlin commanded.
    “This isn’t a simple spell he’s under,” Titus
continued. “To make matters worse, he’s got two layers now, with
her addition of another on top of the previous one that was
waning.”
    “Why did it wane?” Terian said. “Everlasting
Love is supposed to be, well, everlasting.”
    “Distance,” Titus explained. “That was the
only thing that saved him. That and his character, I suppose. A
lesser man would have been unable to leave her at all.”
    “Why did she do it?” I asked. “Why force
someone to love you?”
    “As long as there has been magic, there have
been love spells,” Titus growled. “Everyone craves it, and few feel
safe in it, even when they have it.”
    “Why caution me?” Devlin said to Titus.
    “Because once it’s broken, Theo is going to
come looking for Sar. He is not going to be able to stay away from
her, not for anything. No matter where you take her, Devlin,