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“I can’t say,” she whispered, looking down. She pulled her cloak around her, her cheeks staining her fair skin.
I narrowed my eyes. “Can’t? Why the fuck not?”
“She is bound, Kai. Trust me, I’ve tried. She can’t speak half of what she sees. If she does, it sets it in stone, and the future can’t be changed.” Cain sighed as if it were the bane of his existence. It was now mine too.
“And what you see causes you pain?” I asked softly.
She swallowed hard, then nodded. “Yes.”
“I’ve tried to take as much of it as I can, but when I try to take too much, it blocks my magic. Something she won’t let me do while the pack needs me.” He scowled, emptying his cup.
I thought this was about Tabby, but it was way worse. It was about my sister and the strange things she saw, things she had seen since she was a kid. It was why she wasn’t allowed in the pack.
“What kind of things do you see?” Lorelai asked, leaning forward. “I don’t mean specifics, just in general?”
Beenie sighed and put her cup down. “Depends. Sometimes it’s a picture.
Sometimes I touch someone and see their future. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad. But it always hurts. And I don’t know what to trust because I don’t know why I see these things,” she said, her eyes shining, her jaw clenched.
“Brax said something a while ago. He mentioned that they were gone or rumored to be gone. But he said these things could see the future too. The seers. Is that what you are?” my mate asked, and it wasn’t her fault we all tensed.
The room grew colder. Cain snarled at her.
She didn’t know.
A seer was not a good thing. They were death omens, sent as a warning that darkness and shadow were coming. Most never survived a seer’s words. They were prophets, but there was always a trick, a catch.
Beenie couldn’t–
“Tabby was helping me figure it out,” Beenie whispered.
No. That wasn’t true. She would have told me.
But she hadn’t.
I slid my chair back, my heart racing, anger pulsing in my blood.
“Kai?” My mate frowned, but I didn’t have the room in me to keep her out of the feelings taking me over.
I growled, my body shaking.
“You are not one of those things,” I snapped.
“Kai, don’t overreact. As long as I don’t speak of the things I see, the things I see can’t manifest; they can’t trick anyone.” Beenie tried, but it was too late.
I was already past being calmed down.
I roared and left Tabitha’s, slamming the door behind me. I wouldn’t accept it.
I didn’t give a fuck what the hell they thought; my sister was not a seer. She couldn’t be. My mother and father weren’t. They were faithful to a fault; they would never have strayed.
That I know for sure.
Lorelai raced after me, grabbing my hand as I moved fast through the swamp.
She stumbled, trying to keep up.
“Kai–“
I shut her up with my mouth, kissing her, stealing her words and her breath.
I didn’t want to be told I was overreacting; I didn’t want to be told not to feel what I felt.
Lorelai pulled away and shoved me back. “I wasn’t going to tell you that, you big ass. I was just going to ask if you wanted to run it off with me?” She scolded, walking ahead of me into the forest.
I watched her, raising a brow as she temporarily made me forget what I was mad about. She peered over her shoulder.
“You coming, Alpha? Or are you going to stay here and wolf out, making things harder on your sister who is clearly already going through it?” she snapped.
That worked.
I walked after her, my mood sour but not as feral.
I watched her strip, licking my lips as she wriggled that cute ass out of her pants.
She wrapped her coat around her instead of staying naked for me.
“Lose the coat, mate.” I sauntered over, anger still swimming in me, but she was my own personal diffuser, distracting me like some wicked temptress sent from my hottest dreams.
She smirked. “Lose the pants, mate.”
I grinned and stripped for her. The desire in her simmered between us, the link flaring with need.
“First one back to the city gets the loser’s mouth on them,” she challenged. My Little Luna knew me well; she knew I couldn’t resist a challenge. And she knew it would distract me.
I didn’t even care. Normally I’d be ripping shit apart, destroying the forest in a rampage, but with her tempting the part of me only she could talk to? The trees were safe for another day.
I laughed at her walking slowly ahead of me.
“Little Luna, your pussy is my favorite taste, win or lose, I’ll have my mouth on you.” I grinned.
She shrugged then dropped her coat, shifted into her wolf, and took off.
I shifted and took after her.
I wasn’t even trying to win because if she was at the finish line, then the prize was already mine.
32. The Lake
BRAX
Running with my Spitfire had become my favorite thing to do. Any spare chance I got, I was inviting her with me.
On patrol, for fun, because I couldn’t handle the emotions in the pack anymore, I ran, and she always came with me.
It helped, having her there, having her shadows there to fend off the negative.
And there was a lot of it.
The pack was riddled with desolate hopelessness. They were starting to lose the fight, the fire we needed to beat the vampires.
The attacks were coming daily now, and more wolves were getting hurt.
And then there was Tabby’s death, the witches’ snub, Derik’s parents.
It had hit too hard on all of them, and I felt every part of that.
I tried not to let it get to me, but I had never had to be so controlled before.
Normally, there was enough good to balance what went on inside me when I collected others’ emotions, but not this time.
The pack spent their nights at the tavern, with their mates, pretending like they weren’t saying goodbye, but they were.
Every patrol was tense; every team sent to take out a small camp of vamps felt like another sacrifice. There was no hope left. Every day, the pack wondered who was getting buried next, and I had no answers for them. None of us did.
The vamps were strong, and we were doing what we could to hold them off, but they were coming harder and harder.
Lorelai tried to rally them, to keep that hope alive with her magic feeding us, keeping us strong even in the dark winter, but there was only so much she could do.
I ran harder through the forest toward the lake, my mate hot on my heels.
She was getting faster but still couldn’t catch me.
I grinned and slowed to meet her, running next to her to make sure nothing got to her before I got them.
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