“What about…the alphas?” I said. I couldn’t call them Caspian’s dads after that.
I tried to look back, but Sin blocked my view.
“Lily is familiar with dealing with these matters. But that’s not our biggest concern.”
“Yeah, let’s get the fuck out of here.”
Kai lifted a finger, Sin’s gun hanging off the end. “You ever use one of these?” he asked me.
I shook my head instantly. I never thought I’d see one in my life.
“Good, and I hate guns, even if they just stun. Looks like it’s up to you,alpha.”
Sin pressed his lips together as he swept the gun from Kai’s grasp, neatly returning it to his pocket.
“I don’t understand. Why are you so okay with this? They might die.” When I looked over my shoulder, Kai stepped in close to make sure I could only see him.
He patted me on the head with a cheery smile. “There’s no ‘might’ about it. I told you I’d protect you, didn’t I? I’m going to keep all my promises, so you never have to worry again. I just need these two shitheads to keep up.” He glanced at Sin over his shoulder. “Because I amsowinning the best mate of the year contest right now.”
They glared at each other, or Sin’s version of glaring, but Sin didn’t reply.
But every second that passed grew more painful, until I was suddenly clutching them both, my chest tight, sucking in a giant breath as I searched for my mate inside me.
“Um…” I had a bite burning high on my neck and a bond that needed to be maintained. “Where’s Caspian?” I rasped.
Kai grit his jaw, and he parted his lips to throw something at me along with his rush of irritation.
But a bloom of pure rage thundered around us, and a boom exploded through our bond. Pain ripped through me, and I cried out, my body spasming. But Kai and Sin quickly grabbed me, holding me up.
“Oh, fuck,” Kai snarled as my body shook with a pulse that tore me up from the inside.
“What—” I gasped, doubling over as unrelenting fury stormed through me, screaming in my mind as everything burned in red.
Sin clung to us both as I groaned, shuddering, trying to control myself. “What’s happening?” I choked out. “I can’t—” But I yelled as another boom of fury stole my breath.
“It appears Caspian has gone rogue,” Sin said so plainly that it was like we weren’t being ravaged by Caspian’s force.
“What do we do?” I whimpered as explosions of pain detonated in my body.
Kai shot out a hand, pulling me to his side, his expression grave. “We fucking move.”
Kai
“Kai,” Brandy groaned as we staggered through a fuckass corridor that stretched for miles. “I can’t go any farther.”
We’d walked for five minutes, but even when we were dragging Brandy along, she was in too much pain to move properly.
It was fucking heartbreaking. And it was all Zania’s fault.
Even though I’d built up a defence to Cas’s rogue state over the years, it was harder to keep my shit together when Brandy was fucking losing it.
I choked on her pain, desperation, her longing, and confusion over what was going on.
She was trapped in the post-bite haze where everything was supposed to be sunshine and fucking rainbows.
No matter how cathartic it was to shove my hairpins in those alpha’s throats, we would never be free unless we got rid of Zania. But we needed to find Cas first.
“It’s terrible to say, but the more intense the pain, the closer we are to him,” Sin said stiffly.
