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But how? What separated them from the wraiths back home — the ones that murdered everyone they knew and loved?
"We'll get answers," Jaiel said, voice soft. "Alpha Blackwood said he'd talk with us tonight after the party and make a plan. I'm sure there's some way to keep you from corrupting and get rid of the mate bond."
The wolf inside me howled at the thought and I tried to suppress it. But it was already nearly back to its full strength.
I looked down at that flask. Perhaps I should take another —
A faint, feminine scream pierced the silence, and my heart stopped.
The wolf inside me lunged, snapping the last bit of numbness from the potion as he pressed hard against — no, into my mind.
As he took over, the world around me shrank to a pinprick, then appeared again but as if it were behind a hazy curtain.
I stared, helpless, as we exploded from Jaiel's room, following that aching pull in our chest to another room — a room where we could feel her in pain.
Kaiya lay atop a large bed in the middle of the room, her blond hair damp from a recent bath. She was curled up in a tight ball and whimpered in her sleep.
Letting out a short scream, she pulled her knees in closer, mumbling something.
The wolf growled, a rumble deep within our chest, and we moved closer.
"It's just a nightmare," Jaiel said from behind us, stepping to our side. The wolf looked over to see his hand frozen in the air, as if he were debating comforting her.
Heat blossomed up our skin, and I slammed myself against the barrier in my mind, wrestling back enough control to keep the wolf from snapping at him.
With that little bit of control, I narrowed our focus to the witch, and the face that had haunted my days and nights for months.
She might not be mine, but something inside me twisted to see her in so much pain. I lifted a hand to wake her —
"Don't," Jaiel said, grabbing my hand. "It doesn't work. She won't rouse from one of these. All we can do is wait."
"You do this often?" I growled.
The wolf snarled and snapped at the Fae, bristling at the thought of this playboy in bed with the witch, using her like a thousand women before her to replenish his own power.
Then again, he'd said she mattered to him —
Without taking his eyes off her, he shook his head and lifted his hand to her cheek. "Just once, on the boat ride here. But — "
Looking pained, he dropped his hand and stepped away from the bed.
"It doesn't matter."
Excellent. The wolf howled and seized control once more, pushing us to our mate's side.
If the prince wouldn't comfort her, we would.
Chapter 48
Kaiya
Ivaguely knew it was a nightmare, but knowing didn't help as a sharp, burning pain split across my stomach. The creature tore at my skin and muscle — just as it had each time this nightmare came.
Screaming, I cried out for it to stop, but it lifted its silver head and stared, leaning in as it realized I wasn't dead yet.
I looked away, already knowing what was coming. Those milky eyes would take in the fact I'd survived, then it would go back to tearing at my wound with a renewed ferocity, reveling in my screams.
Warm tears trickled down my face as I stared at the cloudless sky above, bracing myself for the pain.
