Collapsing into him, my forehead rested against the solid muscle beneath his tunic. “The sacrifice isn’t one of us. It’s not. It can’t be.”
Kade hugged me tight. “Well, I refuse to let it be you.”
Looking up at him, I responded, “You don’t think I feel the same?”
The love reflecting in his eyes as he took me in calmed my anxious nerves slightly. He leaned down, kissing me gently. “Of course you do.”
His body jerked suddenly.
“Kade?” I frowned as he took a step away from me. “Storm, do you see this?”
Storm looked up from cleaning his tools, his skin losing all color as Kade’s body jerked once more.
A grey mist, lighter than his shadows, swirled around his feet, climbing rapidly up his body.
No.
My mind froze as it immediately took me back to that heartbreaking moment in Dargan’s study when Thames appeared, trapping Kade.
“Get back,” Kade ordered, fear flickering in his eyes.
I didn’t listen, instead stepping closer toward him as my heart pounded in my ears. “What’s happening?”
“I don’t know,” Kade said. He flung his shadows out, but as they tried to wrap around the mist, they were swallowed up too.
“Lana,” he breathed out heavily. “Don’t do anything crazy, please?—”
Before either of us could react, Kade was gone.
Disappeared without a trace.
I fell to my knees and screamed.
Chapter 28
Lana
Ididn’t bother knocking before barging into Ian’s room, just down the hall from my own.
“Lana,” Storm shouted from behind me, but I refused to stop.
“Ian,” I yelled. “Come quick.”
The room was dark, except for the three candles burning on his dresser. The curtains hid whatever sunlight was left of the day. I could barely see where I was going and tripped over clothes and weapons scattered across the floor, stubbing my toe on the hilt of a sword.
“Tits and daggers!” I hopped on one foot, trying to ignore the pain throbbing in my big toe.
“Not one moment of peace around here,” Raya grumbled from somewhere underneath the sound of rustling of covers.
I felt around for the edge of the curtains and flung them open, illuminating a groggy Ian alongside Raya.
“Ian, Raya, we don’t have time,” I said, not even having a moment to process that Raya had clearly accepted Ian’s role as her mate. “You have to get up.” I moved to the edge of the bed and threw a shoe strewn on the ground directly at Ian’s head. “Kade’s gone.”
Raya immediately shot up, holding the covers over her chest. “What did you say?” she whispered. “I know you didn’t say what I think you just did.”
Storm finally entered the room with us. “For fuck’s sake.” He quickly turned around as he caught Raya covering herself with the sheets.
My patience wore thin knowing how much planning we had to do. I twisted my hands together. Gathering everyone took time away from figuring out how to find Kade.
