“Why does it hurt so much?” she gasped, pressing her hand against the wall as she forced herself to take another step.
“Because Cas’s mind is fucked,” I growled. “There’s nothing holding him back, so he’s switched to beast mode. We either gotta wait it out or go and rescue him.”
Sin sighed as he rubbed his hand over his heart. “But sometimes it takes hours for him to crash. The longer he stays in this state, the less chance there is that Caspian’s mind will be whole when he returns.”
Sin stared down the corridor, his brow furrowed as his aura bloomed around him.
I eased out a breath as the buzzing fury suddenly calmed. Brandy’s shoulders softened, but I had to tell her not to let her guard down in case—
Another boom, and Brandy screamed as the pain floored us, tearing through our bodies. She stumbled at the shockwave of anger that was way stronger than even me and Sin were used to.
“Shit!” I shouted as I tried to catch her. “Just grab onto me!”
“I can’t,” she panted, gripping my sleeve as she sank to her knees. “I can’t do it, Kai; it hurts too much.”
“Fuck, I’m so sorry,” I said, kneeling down next to her. I wanted to take care of her, but it was a struggle to keep my head on straight. “I forgot how messed up it is when he goes rogue. I’ve been through it enough times that I just roll with it.”
I glanced at Sin, who gave me a hard look. Because we both knew this wasn’t normal. He was barely holding his shit together as well.
“How can you—” she was cut off as pain ricocheted through my right fist, then my left, then my right again as Caspian kept punching.
“How can you just roll with this?”
“It doesn’t hurt as much when you’ve been bonded for this long,” Sin said as his gaze danced the line of her neck. “It’s simply because your bite is fresh.”
As if I couldn’t feel his jealousy, even though he was the one who sent Cas after her in the first place.
Our stunning omega was being ruined by us again.
If Sin wanted to bite her so badly, why didn’t he just do it?
She whimpered as she convulsed. Her head hit the wood-panelled wall as she fell back against it.
“Brandy! Fuck!” The pain was lost under another surge of power from Caspian.
She choked out a breath as I wrapped my hand around hers, feeding her energy.
But Caspian was too strong. It was like a storm battering against us, and we couldn’t stop him.
Sin kept staring off into the distance instead of helping her. Like he expected me to do everything, even though it washisaura andhisbite that would help her the most. Stupid, shitty alphas.
Our throats burned each time Caspian roared from wherever he was. I could still feel him, so he had to be shut up in the building somewhere. Everything was screaming in my brain. She fucking seized when another surge of fury burned through us, and I clutched at her to keep her calm.
But her skin was losing colour, and her limbs were weak. She couldn’t move, and I didn’t know how I was supposed to take care of her when Sin wouldn’t help.
“What do you want me to do? Shall I go?” Sin looked directly at me, and I hated how I relaxed because Sin was putting me first.
Until I shook my head and scowled, because I wasn’t the priority.
“You just focus on Brandy,” I said through gritted teeth as another wave of rage and pain shocked us.
Sin could stay and use his shitty magic alpha powers to keep her calm, butnooo, that would be too easy.
I was the one she’d bonded with, so I was her connection to Caspian. She might be looking up at Sin, but I was the one she clung to.
“Where’s Caspian, Sin?” Brandy whimpered. “We need to find him.”
I scrunched my brow as my heart clenched. She couldn’t deal with anything else. Freshly bitten, her omega instincts only wanted one thing.
