“And what is here?” Declan inquired as he spun a lollipop between his fingers.
“A log cabin.”
“And what is so special about the cabin?”
“I don’t know.”
Behind her, Ronan folded his arms over his chest; tension emanated from him while he watched his mate. Saxon leaned back on his heels as he surveyed the other marks on the map. Instead of circles, these were pen lines etched onto the map. Each mark had a date written beside it that went back almost three weeks.
He pointed at the first mark and date; it was only fifty miles away, and the date was Christmas. “What are these?”
“That’s when I first started seeing markers,” she said.
“Markers?” Killean asked.
“Yeah.” Kadence turned the map toward her. “Here”—she pointed to the first dot on the map— “there’s a church with some of the most beautiful stained-glass windows I’ve ever seen. And here”—she pointed to the second marker—“there’s a bakery with a pink pig on top. I saw the actual town sign for this one.” She pointed to the third dot.
“That was when I realized the snippets of visions I was receiving during my dreams were from different towns. I researched what towns had things like what I was seeing and learned the exact locations.”
“Why?” Logan asked.
“Because I knew they were leading me somewhere; I just didn’t know where or why I was seeing them.”
“Why didn’t you come to get me to help you with them?” Nathan, Kadence’s twin brother, asked.
Nathan had his arm around Vicky, his very pregnant mate. Vicky’s twin, Abby, her mate, and their mother and father were arriving tomorrow to stay until Vicky had the baby, which could be any day now.
“Because they were coming to me in dreams, and I didn’t know when I was going to have them,” Kadence said. “Plus, they were short scenes with one vividly detailed thing that stood out when I woke up. And, like I said, until I saw the town sign, I didn’t know what was happening. Once I realized the dreams were trying to lead me somewhere, I searched for the pig and the church, but I didn’t know where they were taking me… until, last night.”
“And what happened last night?” Simone asked.
“It came to an end.”
“And how do you know that?” Killean asked as he ran a hand through his short, dark brown hair. It had taken some time, but his hair and eyebrows had grown back after being burned off almost seven months ago.
Kadence’s fingers played across the marks on the map as she spoke. “Because my dream last night had a sense of finality to it, and Iknewthis is where the visions have been leading me.”
Saxon studied the circle in New York. “And what did you see in this last vision?”
“The town sign, and then it switched to a cabin in the center of a clearing. Light shone from the windows of the cabin, and it had a farmers porch. The interlocking logs of the cabin were a light wood color, and there was a large, snow-covered field behind it.”
Like a million other cabins in the world. Saxon kept the words to himself as he studied the map and then Kadence. She had to know trying to find a cabin in the mountains would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Granted, it wouldn’t be a huge haystack as they had a general location, but she was the only one who knew the exact appearance of this cabin.
“And why is this cabin important?” Nathan prodded.
“I don’t know,” Kadence said. “I only know something has been guiding me to this town. Why? I have no idea. What’s there? Not a clue. There could be another bunker Joseph established to hide out in before he died, it could be a group of Savages, it could be vampires, or it could be nothing.”
“You don’t believe that,” Ronan said.
“No, I don’t. There’s something there; I just don’t know what.” She bit her lip as she stared at the circle. “Once we get to the town, I might—”
“I think it’s best you stay here,” Ronan interrupted.
Kadence turned toward him, and Saxon could see her gearing up for an argument, but Ronan spoke before she could. “We have no idea what is up there; it could be something dangerous, and I don’t want you involved.”
“I’m already involved in it; I’m the one who saw the cabin.”
“And someone else can find it,” he said.
