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“I’m sure we can get both done in the bath.” He nuzzled my neck.
“A, as much as I would love to stay with you and let you have your way with me, I think we need to figure out the wards first,” I said, trying to keep the panic out of my voice.
His face softened, “You’re right.” He kissed my forehead. “You have nothing to worry about, ok?”
“Where is Lucien?” I asked, realizing that he had changed before Lu did.
He looked conflicted before he took a deep breath.
“He’s running the perimeter. We’ve started to do that to make sure nothing is going to catch us off guard.” He looked like he didn’t want to tell me.
“Are you worried?”
“No, we just want to make sure that we are prepared, in case there is a next time,” he said with confidence, but I had a feeling he wasn’t telling me the whole truth. He was leaving something out.
“Wait here for Lucien, I’ll be quick.” He kissed my cheek but I still worried about Lucien being out by himself. “You could come and sit with me.”
“I’m just going to stand by the window and wait,” I said, rubbing my chest, knowing I wouldn’t settle until I saw Lucien.
“Ok, I’ll be quick,” he said, disappearing into the bathroom.
I didn’t know what Aeon was hiding, but I had a feeling he was lying to me. They knew something was going to happen and I hated not being included.
I walked to the window to see if I could look out for Lucien, just a glimpse of him would make me feel better even though I could feel him and nothing felt wrong. A few minutes went by when I noticed two wolves running side by side. A dark and a light one were running along the gate.
Just the thought of Zev with Lucien made me feel better instantly. But why was Zev running with Lucien? We were in this mess because of him. He needed to get his shit together because I knew Caston was going to be back and he wasn’t going to be unprepared this time.
10
AEON
Ilied to Katarina a few days ago. She deserved the truth but I saw the fear in her eyes about Caston coming back. It was our job to protect her and I didn’t want to add more stress onto her. That bastard made her afraid, which made me want to rip him to shreds. She didn’t go into complete detail about what he had done to her, but her fear told me enough.
For the first time in two hundred years, my hatred for the Belladonnas was dwarfed by my hatred for this man. I guess you could say he was a Belladonna, so it wasn’t much different. Her family had to know he hit her, or was unfaithful to her. From what she has said, her family all lived under the same roof. Someone had to have seen something.
My anger fueled my running. I was able to shift back into a human fifteen minutes ago, but I stayed in my wolf form because I needed to make sure that the perimeter was safe before I saw Katarina. We had spent the last few days researching spells, and there was one that might work, but we didn’t have one of the ingredients and it would take two weeks to prepare.
Seeing the hope die from her eyes as she read everything we needed and how long it would take, broke my heart. It wasn’t off the table yet, she thought she might be able to modify it to still work.
After I made a few laps around, I settled to watch the gates for a moment. It had been a few times already that I felt like someone was watching the property. When I told Lucien about it he shifted immediately, running along the gate to make sure he didn’t see anything.
Ever since that night, we had been taking turns to make sure one of us didn’t miss something. A few nights, Zev’s wolf had run with us, but when we had crossed paths he didn't seem to remember. His outburst the other night was still grating on my nerves. His hate was pushing him off the deep end and I didn’t know what to do to make him see that he was hindering us.
The sound of soft footsteps brought my attention away from the gates. I assumed it was Lucien, but when Zev appeared, I had to stop myself from growling at him.
“Are you really that worried that someone is going to walk through those gates?” he asked, knowing I was already conscious of my wolf.
I gave myself a few minutes before I shifted to get a hold of my anger.
“Yes, I’ve had a few instances where I was positive someone was out there,” I said, continuing to look around.
“What are you afraid of?” he asked, standing next to me. “What could possibly come through those gates that we can’t handle?”
“That's the thing, Zev, I don’t know what is out there anymore. There is a whole new world out there that we have no idea about, except the small pieces of information we get from Mr. Potter.” I took a deep breath. “I don’t know what anyone is capable of anymore and the unknown worries me.”
Zev nodded and looked around as well. I itched to yell at him, knock some sense into him, but I knew that would do more damage than good. We stood in silence and I hated that it felt like we were worlds apart. Our bond felt like it was slowly cracking, all because of hate.
I missed my friend, my brother, our leader.
