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The dock where I’d first arrived with Levi was the most logical place, and I ran along as close to the south-east shore as I could to what I was labeling the front of the island in my mind. My chest heaved with my breaths as I arrived. No boats.
Okay. No problem. Just a little way around the island was where Talis kept his seaplane. He had a mooring buoy and a facility to house the plane in bad weather. Levi had called it the most pristine garage in history, and it was modern and squeaky clean. No one would ever know that less than a hundred feet away harbor seals sunned themselves on rocks and seabirds made nests on the cliffs.
The seaplane garage didn’t have a boat either, and I sucked back a sob. There had to be a boat somewhere. I couldn’t stand the thought of Kienna locked in her room, so frightened, not knowing what was going on.
I took off running again. Sweat trickled down my neck and along my back. It wasn’t hot out, but I felt feverish. I couldn’t wait until the guys returned. I needed to get home now.
The west side of the island was mostly rocks and birds, but as I rounded back up to the north, I spotted a cute cottage hidden by the pines. It must be Kathryn’s, as she mentioned her place being much smaller than the big lodge. There wasn’t a dock, but I spotted a small boat half-covered by a tarp beside the cabin.
Hurrying up, I threw off the tarp and dragged the boat down to the shore. It was rowboat sized and smelled faintly of fish. There was a small outboard motor, and I examined it as I set it into the water. The start button was clearly labeled. And how hard would it be to steer? I could do this. I just had to head east to the mainland and catch a taxi to my house. Easy.
I pushed the boat a little farther out, and holding up my dress so it wouldn’t get wet, I climbed in. I’d never ridden in a boat this small and I had not driven one, but it wasn’t if I was going to smash into anything.
The motor rattled to life when I pushed the button, and I clutched the tiller, driving out around the island and pointing myself east. I fanned myself with my free hand, still so hot, and wished I’d brought some water.
The wind whipped at me as I left Haverhill behind me, and the waves had me bobbing up and down, which my stomach did not appreciate. I rubbed it, trying to soothe my nausea. I didn’t have time to get seasick.
It wasn’t until I lost sight of the island that the first lance of pain hit. I clutched my abdomen as my panties became soaked with slick.
Fuck. This wasn’t seasickness. It was the last thing I needed. My damn heat. “Goddammit.”
I couldn’t stop now. I had to get to Kienna.
Another wave of pain surged through me, and I curled up onto myself. An ache to be knotted screamed between my legs. My slick flowed faster than it had ever before.
Crying out, I forced my hand back on the tiller. How did one make this boat go faster? I could only see a few rocks out in the increasingly frothy water. No Haverhill. No mainland.
I breathed through the waves of agony. I could do this. My heat would not send me back begging for my Alphas. Again and again, I repeated it to myself.
The boat hopped, splashing with the increasing size of the waves. Were they pushing me back out to sea? The small motor didn’t seem to be doing much against the onslaught as the wind picked up again.
My shriek was lost in the jagged sounds of the ocean as my heat tortured me some more. I fell forward in the boat onto the bare ribs of the floor, writhing with misery. Freezing water splashed over the front, soaking me just as thoroughly as my hot slick.
I tried to sit up, to put me back onto the path toward the mainland, but the pain would not release me. I cried and attempted to relieve some of the ache with my fingers. Picturing Talis over me as he knotted within me, Evander pounding me from behind, and Levi feasting on my pussy. “Please… I need them.”
A wave hit the side of the boat, causing it to lean to the right. I could only brace myself with my feet.
I was going to die out here. No one would know what happened to me.
The boat rocked again as the waves bashed into the side. I couldn’t sit up any more. My heat refused to give me enough strength so I could get to shore.
The only thing I could do was scream.
Chapter Twenty-Three
When the call came from Kathryn that there was a crisis involving Callista, I raced out of the senator’s estate so fast that I tore up the lawn behind me. I didn’t give a shit about Grant’s landscaping or Talis yelling at me over the radio. Callista was the only thing that mattered.
The fucking threat against Grant was fake. I could smell his bullshit a mile away, but Talis had insisted we take it seriously. We’d been waiting around all day and nothing had happened. But if Kathryn called us about Callista, that was a real emergency. She wasn’t one to ask for help unless the sky was falling.
So I abandoned my post and headed for the docks.
I also may have neglected to tell Talis and Levi exactly why I left.
Kathryn would eventually get them the message, but I refused to let it be anyone else who helped Callista. Sure, Talis, Levi, and I had an agreement to share the gorgeous Omega, but right fucking now, it was going to be me and only me with her.
From the SUV, I jumped onto one of our speedboats and took off to Haverhill. Kathryn had said she and two of the guards on the skeleton crew left on the island rescued Callista who tried to get to the mainland in Kathryn’s fishing boat. That thing could barely go fifteen miles per hour. It was meant for staying close to Haverhill, not transport anyone to Oregon. What was Callista thinking? Did she want to run away from us?
It was starting to get dark by the time I made it back to the island. I didn’t even bother to tie the boat up as I ran it up onto shore by the dock. My heart pounded as I leapt off and ran to the house.
