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With a roar, I shoved the unicorn away from me. “I said not to fucking touch me.”
“Do you believe me?” she asked without missing a beat.
I had to turn around before I answered her, because I was tempted to lash out with my darker half. It was the one part of me that I was equally thankful for yet also hated.
The demon in me that had come from my father.
The curse that had killed my family and left me alone in this godforsaken world.
The powers that allowed me to channel my rage by searching for piece-of-shit people who didn’t deserve to continue breathing.
“Um, can we come back to me for a minute?” Kinsley asked with labored breath. “Who the fuck wants to explain to me how I wouldn’t have sensed a wolf inside me after all these years?”
She was rubbing her chest so hard that a red spot formed on her skin beneath her fingers.
The bond I hadn’t wanted to accept as truth tugged on my emotions, but I stopped myself. I wasn’t the one who was going to console her.
I wasn’t the person she needed, even if she wasn’t a magic-stealing murderer.
Lia sighed at me. “You’re being ridiculous.”
I watched as the unicorn went to Kinsley and quietly whispered to her. I observed closely how Kinsley nodded softly, pressing her lips together while her eyes remained wide.
Then, I forced my feet to take me back to the jeep. I needed a minute—or forever—to figure out what the fuck I was going to do now.
Chapter6
KINSLEY
There should have been a point long before I’d spotted a dying unicorn on the side of the road that I’d begun to freak the fuck out, but clearly, I was more broken than I’d realized. Well, maybe not broken, but twisted, for sure.
How was it possible that I wasn’t a witch? I’d been raised in a coven. I could make sparks—on occasion—with my hands. I could… Well, fuck. That was about it.
But wouldn’t someone have said something to me? Wouldn’t they have kicked me out of the coven instead of passing me around from house to house until they’d finally given me the apartment?
I didn’t understand how any of this could have been true. Yet…there was a new warmth inside my chest. I’d always thought I imagined the feeling and had only felt it when sitting beneath the moon and wishing for something more out of my life.
Had I known deep down?
No, that wasn’t possible. Being anything else besides a witch had never crossed my mind, but I’d been sure I was meant for more than the coven I’d been locked away in.
Lia came back to me. Her touch was gentle and soothing while her bright eyes held my stare. She whispered to me quietly about how everything was going to be okay now and that there was no reason to freak out.
That was fucking easy for the unicorn to say.
When I’d first seen her lying on the side of the road, I’d thought she’d been a horse. Those are from the human days and rare nowadays, but no, she’d been so much more than that. A supernatural that I’d thought was more of a myth than anything else.
A mother-freaking unicorn.
“I won’t let anything happen to you, Kinsley,” she said. That finally broke me out of my stupor, along with watching Grayson walk back to the jeep. Though, he’d yet to give me any real answers, so I didn’t concern myself with his distance.
My brows furrowed at Lia. “What do you even mean by that? How do you know who I am?Whoare you?”
She looped her arm through mine and guided us farther away from where we’d found her and closer to where the jeep was parked in the middle of the road. Grayson was now leaning against the passenger’s door.
“Like I said before, my name is Lia. I’m a unicorn shifter and the last of my kind. I’ve been hidden for years, but then, one day, I knew I had to come find you.”
“How?” I swallowed thickly.
