“Tell him your goddamned self,” I growl and try to knee him in the balls.
He’s quick, I’ll give him that, and I only manage to graze his inner leg.
Frustration makes me add, “He won’t be breathing for long if he’s in town with both of us hunting him to rip off his head.”
Surprise makes Sevrin’s silver eyes widen.Shit.Me and my big mouth.Deciding this is the moment for me to run, I turn and walk as fast as I can in these heels.Which happens to be fast because I always wear heels.Once I’m in my car, I hightail out of there and instead of going to the office, I make a stop at the candy store.
“Hey, Fosca,” Zara cheerfully states.
Waving my hand, I ask, “Please tell me you made a new batch of flaky sea salt caramel bombs.”
The smile she gives me lights up her dark brown eyes.“Sure did.”
I walk behind the counter and follow her to the small kitchen in the back.There’s a new batch cooling and I quickly snatch a piece to shove it into my mouth.Instant calm hits me when the sea salt hits my tongue.
It’s a delicious combination of flavors, but it’s also the sea salt Zara obtains by boiling the sea water herself.Zara’s a dolphin shifter and also craves the salt of the sea.She’s the first friend I made when I relocated here three months ago.
“Mind telling me why you need the candy to settle your mood?”She waves her hand in front of me.“Because I’m sensing some wicked turmoil of emotions coming from you.”
Ugh.That’s what I get for having a dolphin shifter as a friend.On the other hand, she’s the only friend I have and trust.
“I ran into my fated mate and we might have touched.”I snag another piece to shove it into my mouth and mumble while chewing, “I might have been the one doing the touching.”
“Oh, shit.The mortal enemy fated mate?Dammit, Fosca.”Zara winces.“Now what?”
Swallowing down the caramel, I shrug.“I won’t be able to fight him off.Us touching linked us in a way where our powers won’t work on one another anymore.We also won’t be able to resist the pull to mate now that we connected.Who knows, maybe my brother will show up and kill me before Sevrin finds a way to sever the bond to kill me first.So much killing, and fighting to be the first one to finish this vendetta.”
Zara reaches for the flaky sea salt caramel and shoves two pieces into her mouth.Yeah, there are no words of comfort, or a solution for the fucked-up shit I’m tied up in.Other than shoving a piece of caramel in my mouth to sweeten life for a handful of seconds.
CHAPTER THREE
–SEVRIN –
Stomping into the clubhouse, I slam the door shut behind me and go straight to my office.Once inside, I shut that door with a bang as well.Sauntering to my desk, I round it and drop my ass in the chair.Meeting my fated mate makes it damn hard to focus, but what she said before she left?It threw me for a loop.
She literally said her brother won’t be breathing for long if we’re both hunting him.Why the hell would she be hunting her own brother?I remember all too vividly how their whole family were united as one when they came knocking on our door when Senna disappeared.
