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My stomach dropped at the realization that I would need to go back. I had to face them.
And fuck…Becca.
I’d completely forgotten about Becca.
She was probably catatonic right about now.
The twin beams of headlights swept up the road from behind me, and I turned, instinctively reaching for a blade that I didn’t have. I didn’t have any of my blades left. They were all sunk into the corpses of our enemies now. At least one of them permanently lost to the sea with an Ace I’d sent right over the edge of the dock.
My hands glared red in the headlights as I backed up further onto the side of the road, bending to conceal myself in the bushes. I squeezed my fists, blood making them stick like that, crimson stuffed into every crevice, dried onto the backs of my knuckles.
A van barreled past, Diesel at the wheel. Another van followed.
I stepped out of the shadows.
“Wait!”
A Jeep blared it’s horn at me and a familiar voice called out the open window, mostly lost to the wind. “Angel!”
“Drake?”
He pulled up alongside me, leaning over to shove the passenger door open. “Get in. Corvus needs a surgeon. We’re headed to the vet.”
I hesitated, my mind reeling, feeling sick all over again at my mistake. My mistake. I pressed a hand to my stomach. “Is he…”
“Come on, Angel, get in. We’ll meet them there.”
I climbed into the Jeep, sitting up high to see if I could still see the van ahead of us around the next bend as Drake tore off down the road after them, his blond hair catching with strands of silver in the moonlight.
Drake cursed as he reached over my chest and grabbed the seatbelt, pulling it across my body to belt me in.
“This is all my fault,” the words fell from my lips, the truth of them forming a hard ball in my throat.
Drake nodded, shifting gears, the back tires spinning against the dirt road as he pushed the vehicle to its limits.
Fuck.He could at least lie to me. I opened my mouth on a sharp remark, but stopped.
Drake’s hands tightened on the wheel, an unnamable thing charging the air around him.
Something changed, like the plates of the earth beneath our feet were shifting all out of place, and I was losing my balance.
“Can I tell you a secret?” Drake said, his cheekbones flaring. His eyes seemed brighter, I thought, something in my stomach turning.
No. Just one eye.
He’d had brown eyes, though. I was sure of it. But right now, one was blue.
My pulse picked up.
There were brown roots peeking through the strands of his blond hair.
My breath caught in my throat, my hand inching slowly toward the buckle holding me in, readying myself to strike.
Could I survive a crash at this speed?
“Drake?”
He turned to face me, his expression unreadable, the carefree mask of Drake gone.
