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My throat grew tight until I couldn’t breathe a second before it ripped open with a howl so damn feral it saturated the link, alerting the pack.
My eyes burned, my canines dropped, my claws came out as my shadows poured out of me. They searched every part of the room as Kai and Brax stormed in.
“What happened?” Kai demanded, handing over Enzi to Brax.
“He’s gone. Zale is gone,” I snarled, shoving past them and heading down the corridor.
I was going to find him, and I didn’t care who I had to tear through, interrogate, or kill to do it.
I reached out my magic, my shadows, the black and purple pouring over every part of the corridors as it searched for him, but there was nothing there. I couldn’t feel him.
“Find my son,” I ordered down the pack link in a deep voice that I didn’t know I had.
It had the weight it needed because the pack listened immediately.
Every single one of them sent their obedience to the link, their determination as raw as my own as Derik made his way to me with urgent strides.
Kai shifted into his wolf with a growl before racing through the rooms, breaking doors, sniffing and howling as he searched everything for a scent.
My white hair whipped around me as my magic grew darker, harsher. My heart was crumbling, panic was chewing at it, and I couldn’t stop it.
I needed Zale, I needed him back. I had known something was going to happen, I had known it didn’t feel right. It was my fault he was gone. I had to get him back.
Enzi started wailing then in Brax’s hands, and he shushed her, his own eyes going white.
“Mate. They are connected,” he said, and I looked back over my shoulder to them.
“She can sense her brother?” I asked, and he nodded.
“Feel her. You might be able to sense more. Touch her shadows with yours, gently.
Don’t overwhelm her. She’s human,” he warned, and I nodded, trying to calm down enough to risk it.
I was about to touch her when Derik ran over to us, his eyes filled with tears. Kai came up, his wolf form taking up the entire corridor.
“Your brother, Lorelai. Your brother is gone from the dungeons. He broke out, knocked out the guard. Adrenna helped him. They have Zale,” Derik breathed through a shaky voice, and I clenched my jaw.
Witch or not, I was going after them. I turned to my daughter, fussing and wriggling in Brax’s hold. Her hand was out, and I gripped it, running my finger over the soft pad of her palm.
“Tell me where he is, sweetheart,” I whispered to her, then brushed my shadows against her, letting them seep inside to find hers.
As soon as they touched, I sucked in a breath, an image popping into my head.
It was the same one that had been haunting me since I had touched the border.
Silas, standing in my village surrounded by dead bodies, blood, and carnage everywhere as he smirked at me.
But this time was worse because I could feel the emptiness inside me knowing my mates were dead. Tears fell from my eyes as my chest tightened, trying to hold my heart together.
Silas looked directly at me as I stood in the snow, the darkness of night still making him a shadow in the burning flames of my village.
His smirk pulled up, and he stepped out of the shadows, his hand resting on the shoulders of a little boy. With white eyes.
“No,” I breathed, choking on the pure fear that gripped me. “Zale,” I gasped out, holding my stomach, but the boy said nothing, blood dripping down his chin, his canines out.
He licked his fingers before looking back up at Silas. “Her too?” he asked the monster, and Silas smirked, nodding once.
“Her too.”
And then Zale ran at me, bursting into a wolf, shadows pouring from his body as he fell on me.
I ripped myself away from the vision, falling back as Derik caught me.
“Lorelai? What happened?” Derik asked, but I shook my head, trying to get rid of the images before taking a deep breath.
I didn’t have time to shut down or freak out. I had to get Zale away from them; I couldn’t let him become that.
“Take a minute, Spitfire. The future is not set. It’s based on decisions that could be made.”
I snapped my head to Brax. “I am not letting my son be the one manipulated into those decisions. I’m getting him back now.
“I don’t care if the wolves are ready or not, or about the rules of attacking first.
They have messed with the wrong hybrid,” I snarled before closing my eyes and stepping back.
I wasn’t sure what I was doing, but I had felt Cain’s link with Tabby before when he took me there, and I had been connected with border magic for long enough to know how to use it.
So I did.
I tugged on my end of the magic, letting everything fall away from the world around me.
I blocked out the sounds, the feelings, the links and focused on the magic, on my shadows that I knew would reach for Zale’s.
I used the hint of Enzi’s that I still felt, then pushed it out, looking for him.
My eyes flung open at the same time I connected with him.
He was looking up at my brother. He was confused; he recognized my brother’s voice, so he didn’t know if he was in the wrong hands or not, but he didn’t like how he felt.
I soothed his racing heart inside him, my shadows stretching to keep connected. It was farther than I’d ever stretched them, farther than I’d ever dared, but the magic helped.
His shadows latched on mine, and I tried not to make him upset, using his eyes to see everything around where they were.
It was a forest, but that was what made up most of our realm, so that was unsurprising. Then I saw cliffs above the forest line, the outline in the shadows.
“Good boy, baby vamp. Didn’t think you had the guts to do it, to be honest. Stealing your own nephew? That’s cold.” Adrenna giggled in her high-pitched voice from next to my brother, and Zale’s heart rate spiked.
I soothed it back down. I didn’t know what his eyes looked like with me in there, and I didn’t want to draw their attention to him.
“This thing is not my nephew. He is an abomination. Just like his mother.”
I tried not to let that one hurt, but it stung like a bitch. I shoved away the pain, focusing back in on Zale. I just needed to know where they were, and then I was coming for him.
“A powerful one. The sister too. I thought Silas wanted both?”
“He did, but Lorelai took one out before I could get to her, so this will have to do.”
“Well, I guess we should be thankful you managed that then.” She laughed like she knew Silas was not going to be happy about that.
I hope he tortured my brother for it.
“It was close. My mother saw me go in the room and tried to intercept, but I dealt with her,” Lucas said darkly, and I had to hold my breath to keep calm.
“Mom.”
I sent out the word to Cain since he was the only other magic I could connect to, and I had to hope he figured it out because I wasn’t leaving Zale until I knew where they were taking him.
“You are the perfect little soldier, aren’t you? Silas mentioned that,” she said, then sighed. “It’s a shame he also mentioned that your usefulness only extended to this part of the plan.”
Before my brother could do anything more than widen his eyes, Adrenna slit his throat, snatching Zale from him.
I sucked in a breath as I saw my brother drop to the ground through Zale’s eyes.
Adrenna wrapped Lucas in her black magic, and I forced Zale’s eyes closed so he didn’t have to see what happened when that stuff attacked.
She chuckled, then wrapped Zale tighter, huffing as she kept walking.
I let Zale open his eyes then and checked the surroundings, but it was just dark sky.
I think I picked up the sound of rushing water, but I couldn’t be sure.
“Let’s go meet Daddy Silas, shall we?” She hummed to Zale, looking down at him.
As soon as she did, she frowned, and I felt her stare burn into me.
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