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“Cory! What’s wrong?” Celeste cried out. Markus exited the SUV and ran toward his family as we crowded around him.
Cory was on the floor clutching his chest while Evie gasped for breath beside him.
“Cory!” Markus dropped to his knees before his son.
“Bells,” Cory cried out.
Chapter Thirty-Five
Cory
I doubled over as pain engulfed my body. Evie gasped beside me as she felt the same heartbreak I was feeling, but it wasn’t originating from her and it wasn’t originating from me. So where was it coming from?
‘Bells, are you okay?’ I reached out to my twin.
‘Cory, h-help me! I c-can’t... I can’t b-breathe,’ she gasped.
I could hear my family around me asking me for an explanation, but all I could do was give them her name.
‘Are you hurt?’
‘I-No. Rogues. Rogues everywhere. We’re being attacked by rogues. Brandon’s dead, Cory. I-I can’t breathe,’ she cried, and I struggled to control my own reaction to her pain in order to help my sister.
With Evie’s help, I stood up. I could feel her worry blasting down the mate bond. She could feel Bells’ heartbreak but didn’t know why.
‘We’ll be right there. Keep them back for a couple of hours. We already have the planes ready,’ I instructed her, clearing the cobwebs and pain from my brain in order to think clearly.
‘I can’t, Cory. I can’t,’ her heartbreak was threatening to swallow me whole and so I blasted my own strength and love down our twin bond.
‘Yes, you can! You’re a Salonen. You are my sister. You are a daughter of the goddess Chantico, niece to the Aztec Sun God and the Moon Goddess. You can do anything, Bells. Make a fucking moat around your pack house if you have to. Just hold on until we arrive.’
‘Okay. Okay. I have to do something. I’ll go do something,’ she said more calmly though I knew it was costing her everything she had not to succumb to her pain. ‘Cory...’
‘D-don’t,’ I choked out, not liking the tone in which she said my name. Nothing was happening to her. I couldn’t lose another family member. I couldn’t lose my twin. ‘Don’t you fucking say it,’ I growled.
‘Okay. I will see you soon. I love you.’
‘I love you, too.’ The mind-link ended and I was suddenly looking at everyone around me. I felt the tears in my eyes while Mom was urgently trying to reach someone through the phone. Bells, I was assuming.
“Are the planes fueled up?” I asked Dad.
“Yes, what’s going on Cory?” he answered, his face full of worry and dread.
“We have to go to Montana. Bells’ pack is being attacked,” I replied, trying to comfort myself by feeling Evie in my arms.
“By whom?” Uncle Helios was somewhere to my right, among the masses of our family trying to find out what was happening to my sister.
“Rogues.”
We boarded the planes twenty minutes later, sending Jo, Uncle Seb and Uncle Theo back with a few warriors on the buses. They wanted to come, but we needed someone to stay behind and make sure our packs weren’t being attacked. I trusted Jo’s decision-making in my absence. There was a chance these rogues were sent by Nickolas, if we were to interpret his cryptic last words as proof that he had planned the attack on Bells.
Three hours later, we were landing in Montana and driving toward Bells’ pack. It was the middle of the night, and there was thankfully not a lot of traffic left, so less than half an hour later, we were pulling up to the broken gates of Redmon Moon.
Several structures and fields were on fire, and mountains of fresh dirt were everywhere, some spearing through dead bodies of rogues. Pride rose at my sister’s clever thinking, even while my heart was sinking at the enormity of the destruction we were driving through.We turned off the headlights of the SUVs and continued forward.
‘Bells, we’re here.’
‘Thank the Goddess! We’re barricaded inside the pack house. They haven’t been able to get in,’ she answered with a sob of relief.
