My adrenaline spiked when he didn’t immediately answer. Then, Noble stepped in front of me, frowning. I could see the terror I felt reflected in his face.
‘Honor!’I clenched my fists, and my heart raced when he didn’t immediately respond. Noble began to part the crowd, making me a path to pass through.
The wolves cheered and howled, but now the sound grated against my nerves, leaving me raw.
‘She’s walking fast. I’m tracking them,’Honor replied.
My panic went full-blown. ‘Tracking them?’I snarled. ‘How the hell did they get away from you?’
He said nothing, and it was only Noble’s hands on my shoulders that kept me from losing my mind.
“Rage?” Noble’s eyes were wide and panicked, and his voice filled with urgency. My brothers and I had our own bond, and he could likely feel my turmoil. “What’s wrong?”
This time, I spoke into all of my brothers’ minds.‘Nai was with her grandfather and Reyna. They disappeared into the library. Something’s wrong. I feel it.’
Justice growled in my head before I’d even finished the last word.
‘Honor!’My chest heaved with each short breath. The only way she’d just disappear andnottell me what the hell was happening was if she was kidnapped, right?
Would her own grandfather kidnap her? No … he’d done nothing but help her. Then, what was she doing? My mind raced as panic clawed at me. Why wasn’t she answering me? Why did she feel so far away?‘Nai!’
I finally got through the double doors and slammed right into Justice.
As soon as I saw the look on my brother’s face, I knew…
“No.” My legs went weak as I scanned my best friend’s face. White as a sheet, Justice looked on the verge of tears. He, of all people, knew how much Nai meant to me; he knew how much I’d struggled with hiding my fated-mate marks from her—and how much I’d struggled with being fated mates with a member of my pack’s sworn enemy.
“She’s … gone.”
Justice’s words sank into me, but everything in me rebelled at his statement.
“What do you meangone?” My wolf surged to the surface. Pelts of fur bristled from my skin, and I clenched my jaw.
Justice frowned. “The guards saw her, Reyna, and Nai’s grandfather leave the castle and head toward the school. I picked up her scent. Honor was with them, but his scent is gone now, too.”
No.
She wouldn’t leave me… “Where did they go? Where does their scent end?”
Justice swallowed, and a pit opened in my stomach that grew wider the longer he delayed.
“The portal door in the library…”
My stomach dropped out as nausea washed over me.
No.
She wouldn’t.
There was a high mage portal in the library. But … her grandfather wouldn’t take her to High Mage Island, would he?
“Rage…” Justice’s voice forced me to look at him. “The guard who saw her said she went …willingly.”
No. I didn’t believe that. I couldn’t.
The party still raged; music from inside filtered throughout the courtyard. The smell of sweat and mage wine pressed against me, and all around, the sounds of joy and laughter and celebration…
She was supposed to be here. Supposed to be by my side. My mate. Nai wouldn’t leave.
