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We started to fade, then poof.

We were home.

Chapter 32

Warrick

I was in Willow’s room.

She wasn’t.

I’d been torn from her bed months ago, but my dove wasn’t here now.

My brothers were nowhere to be seen. I had to assume they’d been sent back to where they’d been as well.

I strode into the hall. The house was dark, the air wet and acrid. It was silent except for the sound of dripping coming from downstairs. I rushed down and water squelched under my boots. What the fuck was going on?

Storming through the house, I checked the living room, the kitchen. There’d been a fire. Fuck. I rushed outside, and the sound of distant screams filled the night. They were coming from the cemetery. I sprinted along the path to get there.

I reached the edge of their family burial grounds and frantically searched for her in the darkness.

Then I spotted her.

Willow.

She was on her knees, Clayton Whitlock standing in front of her holding a blade, Willow’s blade.

Defiance lit her gaze, and she moved so fucking fast, snatching up a jagged-looking rock from the ground. Then she attacked him.

One moment her blade was in Whitlock’s hand, and the next, it was buried in my dove’s chest.

Clayton yelled in outrage, and Willow slumped to the side, blood covering her chest. No. I exploded into my beast form and ran for her—

My body collided with the ward surrounding the cemetery, barring me from getting to her. My dove didn’t move, she lay on her side, eyes wide, lifeless.

Roaring, I ran at the barrier over and over again, but I couldn’t get through, I couldn’t reach her.

She blinked and extended her hand for me—

Then she stilled.

She was gone.

I roared again, Clayton turned to me then, and his wild gaze locked with mine.

My phone rang, the only sound filling the silence.

Lucifer’s words filtered through my head.

The wrong time, Lucifer had sent us too far forward. Hands shaking, knees close to giving out as grief ate me up, I yanked out my phone.

It was the king of Hell calling. I stabbed my finger down on the call button.

“Yo! So I think I made a mistake?” he said before I could speak.

“I just watched my female being slaughtered,” I choked out.

“Ahh…so I did mess up?”