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“Wait, that’s her. I hit your mate?” comes that frantic voice when warmth engulfs me and the pain fades. I suddenly lose not only my sight but my hearing. In a last-ditch effort, I try to tell him to save her, that he must have hit her too.
“Shadow….” her name leaves my lips with my last breath as oblivion sucks me under.
ChapterEight
Eziah
The hillbilly pack turned into yet another dead-end. Instead, we were stuck there for hours while Alpha Satish showed us around his shitty little pack. It wasn’t until they brought out a pig on a spit that I called it a night. It was bad enough we got stuck there for so long. I wasn’t dining with them, if you could call it that. Especially not after watching them shovel shit and not wash their hands.
We had been driving for 30 minutes, both of us defeated. Malachi stirs nervously beneath my skin. He has also lost hope. He thought for sure we would find her there, now that hope died along with mine.
“I’m sorry, Eziah,” Casen says, finally adding words to the air. We had been driving in silence, both of us stuck in our thoughts about what comes next.
Sighing, I glance at Casen, wondering what he will do now that our mission to find my mate failed. He is technically rogue. As am I. We both turned our backs on our packs to search for her, although Casen was banished from his pack.
I wonder if my mother will forgive me. We have barely spoken besides texts. Although I speak with Marabella regularly, I’m not even sure if I am welcome there after what I did to dad. None of them trust me, or more correctly, trust Malachi. My magic can’t affect my mother or sister, yet my father. I shake my head, not wanting to remember.
“So, what are you going to do?” I ask, turning in my seat to look at Casen.
“No idea. I haven’t spoken to Rose in years. She never answers her phone. Sage and Andrei…” Casen sighs.
“They’ll forgive you if she does,” I tell him. That is one thing I was sure of. They loved Rose, and I know Andrei loves Casen like a son.
“Yeah, but she will never forgive me. Not after what I did.”
“You killed your brother for her. For her Casen!”
“And if I didn’t?” he says, staring out the windshield. My brows furrow in confusion. My mind drifts back to the fountain of the past. My mother ripped into me real good for meddling with the past. She locked me out of the Moon Goddess realm, so I couldn’t enter. She warned that meddling with the past will alter the future.
I tried to see exactly what Casen did to Vince. Rose wanted answers and so did I because he never spoke of it. No one knows exactly, and my mother refuses to tell me. My mother has always kept that part locked away. When I questioned how she kept his death secret from Sage, she would always give me vague answers and repeat what Casen has always said, well, the little he has said.
That was when dad and I got into a fight. Ares never should have challenged Malachi. Ares may be part Demi-God thanks to mom’s mark, but he was no match for Malachi. If Maddox hadn’t gotten to him in time, I hate to think what would have happened.
“What do you mean?” I ask. Casen glances at me and shakes his head.
“Nothing, forget I said anything,” he mumbles, taking the turn around the bend leading onto the last road before we hit the highway.
“So, are you going home to Rose? Or do you want to come home with me?”
Casen shrugs. “Are you even welcome home?” he asks, and I sigh.
“I guess I’ll find out. Marabella told me dad wants to retire, he can’t keep up with the pack and help mom. Apparently, she spends more time in the Moon Goddess realm than she does in our world,” I tell him, and he nods.
“Have you spoken to them?” Casen asks.
“Kinda, not really. Only via text.”
“Yeah, same with me. I texted Malik to tell him I was coming home, and he told me not to,” Casen tells me.
“Did he say why?” Casen shakes his head.
“No, just said that it is best for me to stay away.”
We take another turn, and I sigh. The music station we were listening to starts crackling, and Casen reaches for the dash to change the station when I see something out of the corner of my eye.
“Casen!” I yell, seeing the figure dart onto the road. Casen lifts his head and gasps, blaring the horn while hitting the brakes. I am tossed forward in my seat. My eyes go wide when I spot the naked girl. Her eyes lock onto the car, screeching toward her like a deer trapped in the headlights.
The car skids, the sounds of tires screeching, dust going everywhere and obstructing my vision. Then, I see another figure take her place; it almost appeared to have shoved her.
