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Chapter25
{ Damen }
The hairs on the back of my neck spiked.
The second I opened the door to our hotel room, I could feel something was off.
The energy in the room was frantic. Desperate.
Not like I left it. Warm and relaxed. Sleepy.
Ada always left that in her wake when she exited a room—disparate sparks of her energy I could feel pulsating in the air around me, soaking into my skin. The deeper in I had gotten with her, the more vibrant those sparks of energy had become. Whether it was because I was just able to recognize them more easily now, or because our connection had become an unbending ethereal force, I hadn’t been able to pinpoint.
No matter why it existed, it did. And right now those sparks of energy were freaking me the hell out.
Pushing the door open wide, I took a slow step into the room, my look running over every surface I could see.
Sheets missing off the bed. Comforter that I had tossed onto a side chair because she slept as hot as I did, gone.
Silence.
“Ada?”
More silence. Silence so fucking loud it pounded in my ears.
“Ada?”
My feet sped, fast, though it felt like molasses had globbed onto my shoes and I couldn’t get anywhere fast enough. Into the bathroom.
Wet. Wet everywhere.
Pools of water just outside the tiled shower on the travertine floors. I whipped around, my look following the streams of water trailing out of the bathroom, staining the thick beige carpet dark until it stopped, morphing into a huge wet splotch in the middle of the floor. An Ada-sized splotch.
“Ada?” I screamed her name, spinning around in a circle, waiting for her to pop out of some corner of the room I couldn’t see. But it was a wide-open space, the couches and TV closest to the door. The dining table and chairs on the side of the room by the balcony.
The balcony.
I ran to it, flinging the door open to search every inch of it. No Ada.
My veins turning to ice, I spun, striding back into the room, searching every inch of every corner for clues, filing away in my mind every drop of water on the carpet, the angle of the pillows on the bed, the one on the right still concave from her head resting there not but an hour ago.
My breath caught in my throat.
She’d asked me to stay.
Asked me to forget about the rest of the world with her. But I thought I was too fucking important. That the world needed me.
The world didn’t need me. Not more than I needed her.
I had to get to the hotel’s security feeds.
“Where the fuck did you take her?” The roar of the voice hit me a split second before the fist landed on my jaw, sending me stumbling across the room.
“I’m going to kill you.” Triaten charged after me. “Where the fuck is she?”
I found my balance, blocking his next blow at my face and sending an uppercut straight into his jaw.
It staggered Triaten back a step. Just enough time for me to lunge at him, grabbing his shirt and shoving him up against the wall, manic words flying from my mouth. “You know she’s gone? How in the hell do you know that? Where is she?”
