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“It doesn’t work like that.”
“Motherfucking witches,” I muttered.
“There’s only one way to find them, then,” Thorne said, making all of us turn our attention to him.
“We’re waiting,” Alek urged.
“We search for her just like anyone else who’s gone missing. The human way.”
“What, with milk cartons and missing posters?” I snapped.
Thorne rolled his eyes. “They left some kind of trail. It might not be something we can track with magic, but people don’t just up and disappear. Cameras, CCTV, credit cards, etcetera. Caleb might be a vampire, but he’s not a superspy. He’s hardly even computer literate. He left clues. We need to think like humans. Search like them.”
“So you’re saying she’s lost forever.” I dragged a hand through my hair, a frustrated growl rumbling in my chest.
“Noah is on to something, Kingston. Give me a few minutes to make a phone call. I know a guy,” Moira said, standing.
“Great, the witch who can’t even do magic rightknows a guy.”
“Give her a chance,” Alek snapped.
“Fine. Who is this fucker?”
Her eyes gleamed as she pulled her phone from her pocket and dialed.
A tense voice grumbled over speakerphone, “Moira Belladonna, you fucking bitch. You’d better not be calling in that favor I owe you right now.”
“Asher Henry. I’d say it’s a pleasure, but we know that’d be a lie.”
“What do you want?”
“I need you to do what you do best.”
The line went silent, followed by the sound of rustling fabric, like the guy on the other end was sitting up and paying a lot more attention.
“I’m listening.”
ChapterFive
SUNDAY
“It’s not you who has to die.”
Caleb’s words, delivered in that cold, calculated manner, sent fear surging through my veins. Even with the detached tone and the hollow look in his eyes, he was still devastatingly handsome.
“How could you do this? After everything you said to me? After our bond?”
“It was always supposed to lead to this.”
Icy dread formed a pit in my stomach. He’d done it all to get here. None of it was real? Even the bond had been a means to an end. After what I overheard in the library, a part of me had hoped that while extreme, kidnapping me was Caleb’s way of saving us. But if everything had been a lie, then it had just been a game. He was no better than they were.
I sat up, my protective instinct rearing as I placed a palm over my belly. “You’re not going to touch her. I’ll kill you first.”
His lips curled in a cruel smile. “Wouldn’t be the first time.”
“I’ll make it stick.”
He canted his head to the side. “I don’t think you will. You love me too much.”
