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It was my fault. I’d dared to dream, briefly, fiercely, with more determination than I ever had, and now the void I was dragged back into was darker for it.
“I thought you had them. They were so protective at the Diamond Tides,” Zeus said into the silence.
I didn’t react. My tears were drying on my face.
This dread was similar to the first time, in the days right after I’d been bitten. But this time, I knew more.
I knew that Zeus Rogan was content with his disdain, but there were things that unseated even his disgust at the colour of my eyes. There were things that, despite his best efforts, made him want me. So I locked everything down so he wouldn’t catch the faintest glimmer of my fear, or see another moment of my pain. I tried to pick through everything I knew about the Lightning pack. They weren’t mentioned on many of the celebrity channels I followed. They’d had a decent moment of fame, some good movies and shows, and then they’d fallen from the public eye.
“Is this about Drake?” I asked.
It was the only reason I knew the first thing about their pack: Drake Jaccard had once been set to join them. I don’t know what happened, or why he changed his mind.
Zeus’s lips curved up at the edges, but he didn’t spare me a glance, still reading something on his phone. “Oh, Vex. It’s about so much more than that.”
I clutched myself in the awful silence, the blood slowly drying on my trembling fingers.
Piece by piece, I let everything go.
My mates.
My hope.
The world was coming apart at the seams, and I didn’t have anything to hold onto anymore.
Not Drake.
Not Aisha.
Not my mom.
Releasing them, it was like carving out pieces of my flesh, but I had to, now.
My fate, just like it had always been, was sealed.
DRAKE
“You’re going to help get her back?” I asked, taking a seat in the office beside the female alpha. Her name was Leighton, Ebony had said.
It didn’t matter that it was the middle of the night, none of us could sleep, not knowing she was out there, trapped and terrified.
I’d never felt so helpless in my life, and I was grateful for any help. The cops wouldn’t help us get her back—which was sick.
Leighton nodded, glancing around at the rest of my pack.
“I’m going to do my best,” she told me. “Ebony sent me the video on the way over here with a brief rundown of the situation, but we’re going to come at this from all angles. Starting with Vex, I need everything you know about her.”
“She’s uh…” I swallowed, still finding it hard to focus. I pulled my phone out, hands shaking. “This is her…” I tried to pick a photo, but there were too many.
Ebony took the phone from me as I floundered. His eyes scanned the gallery, brows drawn and head cocked as if he was seeing something he couldn’t quite understand. Then the expression vanished, and he tapped a picture of me and Vex getting ice cream just down the road.
“I need everything. I don’t care if it’s truth or lies,” Leighton was saying as Ebony began texting her photo after photo.
I nodded, glancing around at the others, hoping they would take the lead. I couldn’t think straight.
What waseverything? I knew a lot about her, but would any of it be helpful? Surely Love and Rook would have more useful information.
Only, every eye in the room was on me.
