Chapter Three Hundred and Thirty One

Theo’s POV

I wake to the feeling of commotion and trespassing.

My gut churning and Rex feeling highly uneasy.

My eyes roll through the darkness over to Lilith, she’s laying soundly as she sleeps beside me. But I do not see Khai and that has me on high alert.

It takes me only a second before I roll out of bed quietly, moving through the room, forgoing getting dressed because I won’t need to.

I’ll shift as soon as I’m in the yard, and I plan on running until I find Khai.

I picture him in my mind as I skip the steps two at a time, rounding the bottom only to take the second flight of stairs.

I run them too and then round myself towards the kitchen and my goal, the back door.

It’s dark outside, the only light coming from the moon above, and for a moment I stare at it in wonder.

Whose breached the borders, why now?

And where’s Khai?

That’s is the question I focus on as Rex takes his form, his paws hitting the ground as we start running.

He sniffs the ground, catching Khai’s scent as I try