I…
Pain shot through my skull, darkening my vision. Blurring Keys’s lifeless form. Dimming the candlelight.
Silencing Cam’s roar…
Cam?I whispered.I can’t see. I can’t…
Vibrations shook my limbs as the world spun around me. So fast. Too fast.
Then the only thing I could feel was nothing at all.
Everything had gone silent.
Cold.
Deathly still.
Cam…?
Nothing.
Not even the sound of my beating heart.
I’m dying, I realized.Just like before…
Only this time, it wasn’t Cam who’d killed me. It was someone else entirely.
But who?I wondered, my mind fading.Who has betrayed us now…?
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
CAM
“Fuck!”
I phased down the hall, Ismerelda’s blood a beacon to my beast. Except the moment I stepped outside, the sweet essence dwindled.
I chased it to a nearby parking lot, where it disappeared entirely.
Less than ninety seconds was all it had taken for someone to abduct Ismerelda.
I punched a nearby wall, a roar ripping from my throat. I had to figure out who had her. What car the culprit had taken.Anything.
I also needed her to talk to me. To tell me she was all right.
I shouldn’t have left you in that room,I told her, furious with myself.I should have just stayed in the hallway with Keys.
Thinking of the human made me wince.
I’d left a mortal in charge of her safety.
What a fucking mistake that had clearly been.
But I hadn’t thought… “Fuck.” That was precisely the problem. I hadn’t thought at all. I’d blindly trusted.
I’d made assumptions.
And now…
