Pack...
Suddenly, it dawned on me why I was here.Why Randy had plucked my sunny ass from that motel like I was a damn four leaf clover.If lost souls could provide intense power, malleable power...
“You need my soul so you can have an heir,” I said, my voice shaking as I tried to comprehend the reality of what was happening.
It was like I’d somehow fallen into one of those shifter romances I was always reading.
I wanted desperately to remember how I’d wound up lost.
Yet every time I searched my memory, trying to recall the moment of my death...there was nothing.
Nothing but darkness and the smell of petrichor.
Sarah’s eyebrows furrowed.
“I don’t need your soul,” she said, her voice breaking.
“I won’t trade one life for another.I can’t, I—” She turned away, but I could see her body shake with a silent sob.
I couldn’t imagine that kind of pain, that kind of loss.
Whatever her situation was, it was obvious she loved her pain in the ass alpha, and it was more than obvious he adored her.
Suddenly, I wasn’t sure if they really were the bad guys.
Did the ends justify the means?
Had I not aligned myself with Endor and Valory in hope they would bring me to whatI wantedmost?
My body?
“I need to find a way out of here, back to my guardians, so I can find my body,” I said.“So my soul can be reunited.”
Sarah spun around, her gaze roving over me as she twisted her lips.
“You don’t remember what happened to you?”she asked.
I shook my head.
“No, I remember bits and pieces, but nothing...nothing makes sense.”
Panic flooded me and my own voice shook.
“You’re pushing too hard.You need totrust.Your body knows what happened.You just need to accept it.”
Easy for you to say, Pack Princess.
“I don’t know...”
Exhaustion overcame me, as I fought to breathe.Heat bloomed like an inferno as anger spread in my blood.
“You needrest,Mercedes.”She spoke my name like a prayer, like a wish.
“I don’t have time to rest, I—”
Within seconds, I felt her cold palm on my forehead, a soft purr escaping her lips.Rain fell hard against the glass.I wanted to fight.To get up and walk out of this M.Night Shamalyan movie and hop the next train to Jasper.
But it was no use.I prayed to God, and to whoever else who might hear me, that I would find a way out of this mess.
