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“Not now,” he snarled, and his tone left no fucking illusion that he was pissed.
We both were.
Ryth blamed herself, but the real person at fault here was our goddamn brother. If he hadn't gone off half-cocked, hellbent on revenge, then both of them wouldn’t have been taken.
And maybe our father might still be alive.
I didn’t know that for sure.
I met Ryth’s stare. What I did know was that we’d be in a very different position.And none the fucking wiser.Would knowing what we did now have changed anything? I brushed the hair away from her eyes with trembling fingers—not when it came to how we felt about her.
Nick watched the red marker on the screen and pushed the clapped-out sedan harder to get away.
“They told us you were dead.”Caleb was trying to make conversation in the hopes he’d make amends. Fat fucking chance of that. I met his stare, and my own turned dangerous. “Did they?”
Because I almost was…asshole.
There were things we as brothers could come back from. Arguments, rivalry, even where our stepsister was concerned. But this…puttingherin harm's way like that? That shit I just couldn’t fucking forgive. Not even when it came to blood.
He knew…
He saw it in my stare.
We’re going to have a problem, you and me, brother. We are going to have a real big fucking problem indeed.
He gave a careful nod, then glanced at Ryth, giving her a weak smile before turning back to the road.
“What’s going on?”
I shook my head. “Nothing, princess. Nothing at all.”
We followed that marker on the GPS along the winding back roads until it felt like we were the only ones out here. Darkness waited for us, and pain for me. My leg pulsed, shoving a burning fire poker through my fucking thigh, brutal enough for me to catch my breath.
Something was wrong.
I didn’t need my brother to tell me that. Nick met my stare in the rear-view mirror until I looked away.Just get us out of here…I gripped the armrest, wincing.Just get us out.
We couldn’t stay around here, not in this car, at least. A rough plan was all we had, but it was better than no fucking plan, which was what we'd had before Jack Castlemaine called us.
So, we’d take it…whatever he could give us, we’d take it and run.
Nick lifted the monitor Jack had handed us in the brief moments we'd had before we left for The Order and glanced at the blinking red marker as the darkness at the edges of my vision started to close in.
“I think this is it.”
Those words were all I needed to drive the blackout away.
Nick gripped the GPS and switched off the sedan's headlights. We slowed, heading down the dirt road in the middle of nowhere. I forced myself to fix on the darkened blur of houses through the windshield and caught the glint of lights in the distance.
“There.” I pointed. “Lights.”
Nick followed the motion, glancing at the screen in front of him. “That has to be it.”
He slowed the car and nosed into the stranger’s driveway, then turned and headed for a massive barn near the fenceline. It was exactly how Jack had said, all the way down to the oldtimer waiting for us.
I winced with the jolt as Nick pulled up outside the massive double doors.
That hot poker drove all the way into my balls as I yanked the handle and shoved the door wide. “This way, princess.” I prayed she didn’t hear the whimper, or see my knee buckle when I stepped out.
