There was a second Malachai masquerading as Ambrose.
“Who are you?” he breathed, desperate to have an answer as to who the Cyprian Malachai really was. But at least he had the comfort of knowing that he,Nick, wasn’t the beast who’d killed everyone he loved.
He was only the poor fool framed for it all.
“Nick?”
He heard Kyrian’s voice off in the distance.
At first he thought it was the wind. Until he realized his boss was dragging him from his vision and back to where they’d been in the busy police station.
Blinking, Nick glanced around them. “Um, yeah, sorry. I just remembered an assignment I didn’t finish. I’m going to be in all kinds of trouble at school tomorrow if I don’t get it done.”
With that, he bolted for the door, needing to find out more about what was going on.
Caleb was still MIA and that wasn’t like his demon protector. He didn’t even let Nick go to the bathroom alone. That meant, something bad was up for Caleb to be missing this long.
More fear went through him as he struggled to stay in the present. But his powers kept trying to drag him away to both the past and the future.
At the same time.
He felt like a boat that’d lost all moorings. All sense of time and place.
He couldn’t even begin to ground himself.
I need Kody.
Just as he was sure he’d lost his mind completely, he heard something calling to him.
Not a person, though. He wasn’t sure what it was.
This is so peculiar.
How could he stop it and ground himself so that he didn’t keep floundering?
“I will always be here for you.”
On the steps, outside the station, Nick froze at the voice. The spinning stopped so that he could see the street and the traffic. He was still in New Orleans. In his right time period. This was where he was supposed to be.
Cocking his head, he reached out with his powers. His mom, Bubba, Acheron and Kyrian were still in the station. Talking about him, and how strange he’d been acting.
They weren’t the ones who’d spoken, though. That wasn’t what he’d heard. The voice had been familiar, yet not theirs.
He struggled to place it and couldn’t.
“What is wrong with me?”
With no clue, he pulled his phone out and dialed Caleb.
He didn’t answer.
Completely worried, he tried Kody.
Like Caleb, she ignored his call, too. He reached out with his powers.
They, too, failed him.
Yeah, this was all kinds of wrong. A chill went down his sprine.
