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I ran faster, heading towards where Taylor had said they were.
I turned as I left the city, throwing up my border around it. The border was purple and swirling with magic that went easily from me.
I immediately felt the drain on my body, the energy of the magic not in me but my shadows were there, ready to keep me compensated.
The border would keep them protected.
I turned and ran to the misty forest.
“Kai?!” I screamed as I headed in the direction Taylor had said they were attacked.
And then Brax was there. His shadows first, then him.
He said nothing, running with me as I called for Kai.
Kai said nothing.
“You’re not going to tell me off?” I asked.
“Nope,” he shook his head.
He said it in a way that meant I was still in trouble.
“Because Derik will?” I assumed.
Brax smirked, “Yup.”
“Is he mad?”
Brax gave me a droll stare, “Spitfire, you ran from the protection of him and the city into a forest that is clearly under the influence of forces we have no control of and took his heir with you. He’s not just mad. He’s livid. Which is why I am here to help you find Kai and not Derik.”
I chewed my lip, moving through the mist and trees, my heart growing heavier.
“I can’t leave Kai out here,” I said.
They would come for me if I was out here. I was a mate too. I felt the same when something happened to them.
“I understand that. But going in without a plan is Derik’s Achilles heel. He needs to know where you’re going, where you’re searching, how long you’ll be gone and he needs someone with you. He tried to come but he was too worked up. So he’s on help duty. The injured are bad, Spitfire,” he said and I felt like it was a warning for what we might find.
“I know,” I whispered, “I can feel it in the link. Which is smothered for some reason.”
Brax nodded, “Another reason Derik is going to tear you a new one.”
Brax turned me to him then and grabbed my face so I had to look at him, “Spitfire. You carry his heir and his heart.
Two things he never thought he would have. You need to understand what that means in his head because it will break him to lose either of them,” Brax urged.
I swallowed the tight lump in my throat and nodded.
“I do understand but you all carry mine, Brax. And I need to protect what’s mine. It’s a part of me now,” I said then looked out over the forest, sniffing deeply, “We have to go. I smell blood,” I shuddered.
Brax clenched his eye shut, his shadows moving quickly.
His were growing more powerful, strong, and sure like he was becoming. They were mirroring his growth. He used to be a sideline in the pack, the Alpha that didn’t play as much of a part but since he had started sharing duties with Derik, his shadows had responded.
It was hot.
He smirked at me and then kissed my cheek.
“Don’t distract me with looks like that, Spitfire. I am helpless against them,” he said.
I grinned then kept trekking through the forest, my anxiety increasing with every step.
I still couldn’t hear Kai, the blood smell getting worse.
But it wasn’t just blood.
There was something with the blood, a toxic smell that tasted off on my tongue.
I gagged on the taste as we got closer.
Brax ripped a piece off his shirt and tied it around my mouth and nose, “Don’t breathe in too much of whatever this mist is. I’ve never tasted anything like it,” he said quietly, his eyes narrowed on the trees around us.
He put a piece over his mouth, his shadows inspecting every part of the forest ahead of us.
We came to a huge thicket of bushes and Brax swiped through it with his claws. I helped him and we broke into a clearing.
Except it never used to be a clearing. It had been leveled with a massacre.
I sucked in a breath, tears instantly streaming as our wolves lay in disarray covered in blood, black veins of poison all over them.
And then I saw Kai.
He was covered in blood.
And he was fighting one of the pack members. Our pack members.
The mist was heavy and I held my breath as much as possible without passing out, holding the covering to my face.
“Kai,” I whispered.
His head snapped to mine, his eyes going wide.
“Little Luna! Get out of here!” He yelled across the clearing a second before he was tackled to the ground.
“Kai!” I screamed and launched my shadows at the wolf.
It was in its human form, a wolf from our pack. But he was wild and gnashing, naked as he tried to break free from my shadows.
I pinned him against the tree as he squealed.
His eyes were black, his veins black beneath his skin from a wound in his stomach.
“What the fuck?” Brax demanded, his shadows helping me keep the guy pinned.
Kai coughed and spluttered then dragged himself up from the ground.
His pain was so fierce it pierced me through the smothered link. But it wasn’t physical.
He turned to the man we had against the tree.
“Go safely into death. Travel quickly. Find peace. And may the realm accept you,” Kai whispered then sent his sword through the man’s heart.
I gasped as Brax went still.
The forest fell silent then.
Kai’s shoulders sagged and he hung his head.
“We need to get back to the city. It is not safe with the injured there,” he said, his voice filled with so much pain.
I went to him, wrapping my arms around him.
“Kai,” I cried.
He held me lightly for a second before he wrapped his big arms around me and picked me up, crushing me into him, breathing in the scent from my neck.
“You smell like sex. And Derik,” he breathed against me.
I laughed, his joke breaking the tension.
He put me down and grabbed my hand, his eyes glaring into the forest around us.
“Was it the rogues?” Brax asked, his shadows even heavier in the air. They started pushing out the mist and I frowned.
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