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I’d assumed they’d take us separate ways, but this time we were shoved into the same cabin and no witch waited inside.
“Wait. What?” Holt asked as he caught himself against the wall when his guard shoved him hard enough to launch him across the small space.
“Mate, boys,” the guard taunted. “You’ve been our hardest ones to link, so you’re bound to be soulmates, right?”
They didn’t bother to close us in. We were putting on a show for the bored guards who all gathered in the doorway to watch.
“We can’t see them!” someone yelled. Our guards didn’t hesitate to snatch us up again and pull us outside. We were slammed against the wall and Holt’s guard stepped back to hold his gun up to us. The random crowd gathering was passing bills back and forth, making bets on our fate.Glad we could be entertainment for them,I thought sarcastically.
“They’re going to make me hurt you,” he whispered to me as the other guard gave us room and I steadied my roommate on his feet again. He was light enough they used their wolf bulk to toss him around, and it made me fucking irate.
“And you’re going to do it. I’ll be fine,” I promised him. “Look at me, Holt. This is just another day for us here. And those are numbered.”
It wasn’t a subtle note and I didn’t give a fuck at the moment. He needed me to reassure him and I wasn’t going to let him feel an ounce of guilt over this.
“They just want to see you scream,” he warned. “I’m stronger than the other witches.”
“Do it. Please,” I begged him in a hiss. He closed his eyes and held out his hand for me. For the first time I noticed a black tattoo on his palm, thick lines in a geometric pattern of some kind.
“Stop being a pussy!” asshole guard one yelled out. I took one last breath and held it as I placed my palm in Holt’s.
The pain we expected didn’t come. Instead a tingling warmth was in its place. I gasped as a spiral of glowing runes wound around his arm. Each passing moment the intensity increased but for some reason I couldn’t pull away.
“Could this mean?”
“We’re mates?” he echoed my thoughts. Then his shock turned to excitement. “This is fucking it, Callum. Brace yourself.”
There was no time to brace myself as the runes stopped swirling and a sonic boom slammed into us. Somehow we were rooted to the spot, immobile as the world around us slammed away from us like a meteor struck the earth. Yet we were untouched.
The buildings crumbled. People fell. Screams were ripped away with the massive wind. Yet in all the chaos, he kept his eyes locked on mine. The moment the magic came to a halt, he finally spoke.
“Fucking run,” Holt hissed at me as he turned and dragged me with him away from the unconscious guards.
“What about the other wolves and witches?” I asked as I tried to stop him. But Holt seemed almost energized by the attack and didn’t budge. Instead he continued to drag me behind him, refusing to let go.
“There’s nothing the two of us can do alone, Callum. Those who can escape, will, but those guards will only be out for minutes. This is our chance. We’ll give them theirs when we can,” he explained.
The craziest part of us running away was that our bodies could even handle it. We’d lacked food and proper exercise for days. Hell, for him it had been months or possibly years. We shouldn’t have been physically able to make it past the gate, yet I wasn’t even winded.
Then the reality of it finally sank in. We were mates. Honest to gods fated mates.
But I have Vanya…
Oh god, would I lose her now?
“Stay with me, Callum. Don’t freak out on me yet,” Holt begged. His panicked tone brought me out of my own and I nodded.
We ran for what felt like hours through the harshest parts of the Nevada landscape. Rocks and the dry, cracked ground eventually gave way to sparse trees. By the time I couldn’t keep up the run, he slowed down.
“We have to find a place to call my pack,” I said as I tried to catch my breath.
“No. This is the way we need to go,” he argued. There was such conviction in his voice that I stopped altogether.
“Why that way?” I asked.
“This is the way we need to go. This is what I do,” he said. “Trust me on this? We can talk when we’re there safely.” His voice was strained and as I studied him, I noticed just how pale he was. Something wasn’t right.
That was the last Holt gave me as he forged ahead. We didn’t run any longer, though we did keep a steady pace as we stuck to the shadows of the trees. The sun was starting to sink below the horizon and it only helped keep us out of sight.
