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Chapter Nine
Kade
Kade wantedto rip something apart with his bare hands. He wanted to shift and run down every single fucking wolf in Cascadia until he found Olivia. He wanted to uproot every tree and turn over every boulder and tear apart every building until she was safe again.
“Kade,” said Daniel’s voice behind him. “Pants.”
His mate held out the jeans he’d shed just a few moments ago, and Kade took them. He put them on.
Strange, how Daniel was the one who kept him human sometimes.
“I’ll kill them all,” he said. His voice was quieter now, but it still shook with fury. “I swear.”
Daniel took Kade’s face in his strong, warm hands, squeezing.
“I know,” he said.
Kade interlaced his finger’s with Daniels and squeezed his eyes shut, forcing his bear down.
“Sit,” Daniel commanded, firmly but gently.
As he did, Charlie finally shuffled into the kitchen, her jaw set in determination. As she sat at the table, Kade could tell that Daniel itched to simply pick her up and put her down in the chair so that she wouldn’t have to go through all those painful motions, but that wasn’t going to fly with the strong-willed, independent girl.
The side of Kade’s mouth twitched. Of course the girl for them was a tough-as-nails broad.
Charlie looked from Kade to Daniel and back, her eyes wide.
“Okay,” she said. “What was any of that?”
Kade looked down at his hands. He had no idea where to start.
Try the beginning, he told himself.
“Olivia is my little sister,” he said. “I haven’t seen her in over ten years. Since she was seventeen.”
Charlie adjusted the neck of her bathrobe. She watched Kade, frowning slightly, like she was trying to put some puzzle together, but she also looked the tiniest bit relieved.
“She’s missing?” she asked.
“Sort of,” Kade said.
He paused for a moment, locking eyes with Daniel.
“She’s feral,” he finally said.
He looked up at Charlie. Most humans didn’t know that much about shifters, but he could tell from the look on her face that she knew what that meant, and how serious it was.
“Oh,” Charlie said. She looked down at her hands for a moment. “I’m sorry.”
“It was a long, long time coming,” he said. “She was never really happy.” He felt something welling inside him, some emotion he couldn’t name. It wasn’t anger, though that was close; it wasn’t exactly sadness or desperation or longing, but some combination of all three.
“Even as a kid, she wasn’t happy,” he went on. “I mean, we had good times, but she always sort of... seemed worried, you know? I remember once when I was twelve and she was ten she told me she’d been up all night thinking about the heat death of the universe.”
He shook his head.
“Not normal, right?”
Charlie rubbed one nail along the table. “It’s not that unusual,” she said. “Kids get ideas.”
