It was only in the past day that I finally started coming to terms with what I had seen in Camille’s room. My rogue state, my new bond with Mel, and Kai’s possessiveness were all I could focus on as I lay in bed and gave in to my instincts.
So, I sat at my desk, growling at myself for being so weak and pathetic. Every time Sin sensed I wanted to ask about Camille, he would shut me down with a slap of his aura.
No matter how amazing it was to fuck like our omegas were in heat, I didn’t want to admit I was broken. Something snapped inside me, and I didn’t know how to fix it.
I lay at my desk, hiding from my pack. I knew I’d have to go back to them soon, but I just needed time to not fucking feel anything.
Until I heard a rumbling, so slight I would have missed it if I hadn’t focused on the silence surrounding me.
“What the hell?” I murmured, sitting up, listening harder. I could definitely hear it in the distance. I was on the second floor,and it was the middle of the night, so there wasn’t traffic. But it was definitely coming from inside the house.
I reached for Mel and Kai again, and there was a weird flickering between them. It was the same when Kai or Sin had nightmares. Their fear and panic was there, but it was muffled because of their heavy sleep.
Something was off. I shot up, listening out for the sound again as I flung open my office door and ran outside.
Kai and Mel were only one floor above my office in her room, so I could still tug on the bond and wait for their answer. I just needed to know that they were still there.
I’d already felt how Kai blocked us from him in the bond, but this wasn’t the same.
My brisk walk turned into a run as I fled through the corridors.
Why the fuck did I have my office at the opposite end of the house?
Because Kai would always get horny and pull me away from my work.
That shimmering had changed to the dark wall Kai kept slamming down between us whenever Mel was asleep. I couldn’t reach him.
And it was wrong. It felt so wrong. There shouldn’t be empty space where my omegas were. I’d rather have Kai sending me seething hate than absolute emptiness.
I picked up speed, running down the stairs to get to Mel’s room. My body ached, my muscles lagged, and joints tore as I ran as fast as I could. I wasn’t healed enough from my rogue state and from fucking Mel nonstop, but I couldn’t let that slow me down.
Because panic was turning into something darker, and my heart clenched the more I reached for them.
I thought Mel would answer, at least. After everything we’d gone through together, all the ways we had connected andopened up to each other, I thought she would reach back for me, but she was a solid wall as well.
As I launched myself up the stairs to get to her room. There was no way I could have known how deeply I’d come to love her and her smile and those sly looks she gave me that perfectly matched Kai’s. I might have fallen for Kai straight away, but she laid her plans out to worm her way into my heart, and now I couldn’t escape from either of them.
But what if they wanted to escape from me?
That was the fear that flooded my mind as I ripped open Mel’s bedroom door to find nothing there.
They were gone. The lights off, the bed empty, the sheet thrown to the floor with boxes fallen on top of it. Clothes laid strewn around the room, the closet and drawers all pulled out and empty. They had stripped the place clean like they were in a rush, and the only things left were her huge piles of boxes and bags.
A snarl tore from me, and I didn’t hesitate as I launched myself from the room and ran with everything I had.
That noise, that thing I thought I heard. It was the rumble of our underground garage door. But I brushed it off because I didn’t think that was possible. No one was supposed to come or go in the middle of the night, so why would it be opening? And I had an alarm system set up for the whole house that would monitor and track everyone coming and going.
“Sin!” I yelled as I reached the stairwell. “Sin! Fucking hurry! Where are you?”
I stood there, frozen. I needed him with me; I needed my alpha to come because I was so fucking terrified that my mind was spinning. I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t move. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do when it was so fierce it ate me alive. I heard Camille’s screams, I heard Mel’s cries. Kai’s shouts and Sin’s bitter tones, they were beating around in my head anddrowning out my thoughts because the fear was so intense that all I could do was keep calling Sin’s name like a fucking child until he suddenly appeared at the top of the stairs.
“They’re gone—” I choked out. “Sin, they’re fucking gone.”
I needed to make sure he knew what was happening. As soon as I saw his hard gaze, it was like my consciousness kick-started again. I jumped over the banister, dropping to the next floor below. Pain shuddered through me as my feet hit the ground and I launched myself down the long stairs that led to the garage.
“Why is this house so fucking big?” My voice echoed off the walls as I urged my body to move through the pain.
I was still reaching for them through the bond. Slamming against the wall between us like a battering ram, trying to get to my omegas.
