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“His father and I didn’t want him vanished. There would never be a chance at resurrection if we vanished him.”
“What is it?” I asked. Insides my guts were churning from this turn of events. But knowing she had much more to tell me.
“It’s not just that,” Zena said, urging on her friend. “Do you want me to tell her?”
Amanza shook her head. “I was with my boyfriend and we had gone for a walk toward the hockey pitch. We saw something in the clearing just before the woods. A wolf. Kyle told me to run, and we both turned and it ran after us. Then Kyle stopped to fight it.”
“Fight it. Is he crazy?” I hissed.
“He’s a fae,” Zena said.
“Is he okay?” I asked.
“Not harmed… in fact, the wolf ran straight past him to me and brought me down and I thought he was going to kill me… but the wolf glared at me, his fangs shiny, and…” She swallowed, her throat bobbed up and down. Amanza’s face had turned grey. I suppose recalling the memory would be nerve wrecking at how close she was to death. “Then he shifted.”
“Shifted.” I whispered.
Amanza stared at me, her eyes not leaving mine.
“And then he gave me a message.”
“The wolf,” I asked, with my half-eaten sandwich poised in the air between my fingers.
“Ryan.”
Chapter 46
Seb
Laceygasped,shakingherhead. “Why are you doing this?”
Her head dropped backward as she sighed. “I was going to meet you. But not now. You’re just a monster and I am going to repay you for this.”
Lacey turned to me. Her face was a ghostly white, but her eyes were glimmering with her magical gold. She was a mix of an unusual indecision and of suffering.
She gasped as she listened to the call, shaking her head. “What on earth did you expect from me?”
Kane and I stared at each other.
I walked over to listen closer; he turned to me as Lacey listened to the call. “This needs to end,” I whispered.
“I’m going to kill him,” Kane hissed. “Once he says where my daughter is.”
“Tell me, where is Aria?” Lacey asked again. Her voice was firm, but I could hear a whisper of anxiety in her tone. Lacey focussed on the conversation, shaking her head. “I’ll come to you once I know she is safe.”
The mobile dropped out of her hand, landing with a thud on the floor. The mobile bounced at the same time a sound left Lacey’s mouth that I didn’t think was real.
I glanced at Kane as Lacey stood motionless, eyes glazed, and I moved closer immediately. Taking the weight of her failing body into my arms. She shot me a look of defeat.
“He’s got Aria. How has he got her? Clay should have her.” She gasped. “He wants me to go to him on the outside of the oak perimeter. He doesn’t want to harm her, but he wants me to go to him.”
“Forget what Ryan wants. We are going to get Aria back and then we’ll deal with him,” I whispered. Damn fucking right we would go to him... and kill him for good this time. “Lacey, you are not going anywhere. You’re pregnant and we can’t take the risk.”
“I have to get Aria back,” she said in a weakened voice. “He wants me to go alone.”
With wide, glassy eyes. She was in shock, no question about it. This time, it was going to be over. I was going to end this with Ryan once and for all. He wouldn’t get one more chance to take what was mine.
Lacey was mine, and so was Aria.
