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Part Fifty-Nine
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“You have to tell John,” I said to Bryan.“Do you trust this guy? It could be a trick,” Bryan said as I looked down the street.“I trust him,” I answered Bryan and we continued our jog.We jogged back to the hotel, circling the block. John and Malika were coming out of the elevator and John smiled at us.“Are you joining us for breakfast?” John asked, and we followed them into the restaurant part of the hotel.We must have looked like an odd combination at that table. John was dressed in a suit, and Malika was in a summer dress. Bryan and I wore running clothes and were covered in sweat. We ate breakfast and talked about the weather and family and nothing in general. I knew Bryan would tell John once they were alone.I didn’t like Bryan’s idea of going along with everything right up to the moment where I had to step into that circle, wide open. I was prone to reacting in the moment and making emotional decisions but I didn’t like leaving myself open like that.“Why can’t we just infor
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Karis and another Zeta arrived at the hotel to escort us to the tribunal. Karis led me and Malika to his car while John and Bryan went with the other Zeta. I smiled at Karis from the backseat and Malika had hugged him when she saw him.“Kiran, when the time comes, I will do what I can to help you and Malika get out,” Karis said to me.“Thank you, Karis, but my only concern is John and Malika. Bryan will protect John with his life, you should focus on keeping yourself safe and getting Malika out,” I said to him and he looked at me in the mirror. His frown deepened and I knew what he was thinking.“I thought you said you had witches with you.” I could see the nervous energy in Karis’ aura and it did little to calm my own nerves. I was wired and ready, albeit nervous.“Bryan and I are half-witches. We’ll be fine. Don’t try to be a hero,” I said to him and he looked at me with different eyes. It was a look I wasn’t comfortable with. Nobody in my pack looked at me with the same fear as Kar
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Marcos Domah looked at Malika curiously before nodding his head at John. The men seemed to communicate through nods and I turned my attention back to Malika. Her honesty shone from her aura and I could sense Vincent’s anger.“If you were found innocent of these charges, would you sign allegiance with the Seward Pack?” Marcos asked her.“Without a doubt,” she said without hesitation.“Who did you seek permission from to marry?” Marcos asked the next question.“My own, sir. I belong to no pack and I am nobody’s property. My allegiance ended the day Teeven stepped down as Alpha,” Malika said and Marcos nodded. He was making notes on the paper in front of him.“Did you not get permission from Alpha Sinclair?” He asked her and she looked down. I had told her to be honest, she had done nothing wrong. Neither of us had.“My husband has allegiance with the Sinclair family and their pack. He went to speak to Alpha Kiran after we were informed of the charges and he asked Kiran what would happen
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Disembarking from the plane took longer than Malachi liked and he was anxious to get out of there and to find Kiran. They were cutting it close, he wouldn’t find Kiran before the tribunal started.They bypassed the luggage claim since they both had only brought a carry-on suitcase and they walked hand in hand through the terminals and headed to the outside of the airport. Jessica inhaled sharply as they stepped out of the airport and into the brilliant sunlight.The heat was sweltering and the sun beat down on their surroundings. Malachi stepped forward then and nodded at a man. He opened the car door for her to climb into the back before climbing into the front.“This place is insane, too bad we’re not here to sightsee,” Jessica said.The man driving the car didn’t wait for introductions and pulled the car into the departing traffic and merged onto the highway. Jessica sat back and stared at the man before glancing at Malachi. “He’s not human.”Malachi smiled then. “Donovan, this is
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“There’s a side door around the northern corner that’s not guarded,” Jessica said.“Are you inside? Where’s Kiran?” Malachi asked her.“I’m inside. I can see Kiran, he’s standing in the middle of the room … wait, there are two more witches here,” Jessica said.Malachi headed to the other side of the building and saw the door Jessica had mentioned. That was his way in, now he just needed her to keep talking to him. “Jess?”“Kiran knows I’m here. He says Bryan’s with him but the other witch is with Vincent and she knows I’m here,” Jessica said. Her voice sounded more guarded now.“Jess, get out, please. I’m coming in,” Malachi said as he ran towards the door.“Malachi! They have guns! Malachi!” Jessica screamed.Malachi’s heart was pounding as he kicked the door down and gunshots were fired. “Jessica! Get out of here, now!”Kiran stood in the middle of the room, exactly as Jessica said, and Malachi saw the bullet hit him in the chest. It all felt like slow motion as he turned his head a
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I forced my eyes open and I smelled blood everywhere. I heard screaming and I turned my head to the side. I saw Jessica hunched over Malachi, he moved his foot and I sighed with relief. If he was moving, it was a good sign.He was still alive. I couldn’t see what Jessica was doing but I hoped she was getting the bullet from his neck before he bled out. I felt disoriented. Malachi was here, he took three bullets for me and now he was dying.I felt confused as to why they were here and why he had tried to save me. I couldn’t think rationally and I looked around for Adara. I saw her walking towards me, she was smiling as she knelt next to me. Her scent enveloped me and I inhaled deeply. I just needed her. If she was here, then everything was fine and we’d succeeded. “I love you, Kiran,” she said to me and I smiled back at her.“I love you, too,” I said to her and Jessica’s voice broke through the haze and I looked at her and started laughing.“He’s hallucinating, he’s losing too much bl
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“Why are they laughing?” Julien asked as he looked at Karis, he shrugged and went inside. Bryan started laughing with us. We laughed until we had tears in our eyes and couldn’t laugh anymore while everybody else looked at us with shocked looks on their faces. My chest hurt from laughing so much and finally our laughter died down.“Yup, special kind of special,” Jessica said as she went to stand next to Malachi and smiled up at him.“Clearly I’ve missed a lot,” I said as I looked at them. Karis came outside and put my bag on the table next to me. “How long was I out?”“Five hours,” Karis answered me and I frowned.“You heal slower now because of the witch stuff,” Jessica said to me in explanation. It made sense that some of my wolf powers would dwindle in favor of the magic flowing inside me.“I went to the hotel and got all your stuff and checked you out. You must leave as soon as you can. Vincent got away and we’re all marked now,” Karis said, looking worried. “John’s inside, I thin
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I slept on the backseat of Malachi’s car as he drove back from Anchorage to Seward. The exhaustion wouldn’t leave me, and I put it down to the uncomfortableness of the plane. Other than that, my world was semi-perfect. I had Malachi back and he had Jessica back, I was certain that I also had Adara back.Malachi slammed on the brakes as we neared the marina and the car slid on the snow and turned sideways as we stopped and I opened my eyes. The cars were backed up on the highway leading past the lagoon.I could see flashing blue lights up ahead and Malika peered out of the window. I climbed out of the car and Malachi got out with me. Our breaths were white puffs in the darkness and I noted that nobody else had climbed out of their cars.“Probably an accident up ahead,” I said to Malachi and started walking towards the blue lights. Malachi had gone back to tell Jessica and Malika to stay in the car and he caught up to me just as I started running.The truck was laying on its side, Port
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Things were surreal and things made even less sense than when I had just woken up in the hospital. Josh was talking about things that didn’t make sense at all but he was the only friend I had, I had to trust that he wasn’t bullshitting me.“We have to get rid of these first. I’ll tell you everything, I promise, maybe that’ll help trigger your memories. Man, put some clothes on,” he said to me as he opened the window in the living room. I wiped the blood from my stomach and back and put a clean t-shirt on.Josh was pulling the dead men closer to the window and I looked at him. “What exactly do you plan to do about this?” I asked him.I knew we couldn’t call the cops. I had no license, no social security card and Josh hated cops. We both steered clear of them and trouble. We never went out socially, we minded our business at work, came home, trained and when we felt like it, we watched movies at home.We saved most of our money in the loose floorboards of our bedrooms, he told me plenty
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Adara hadn’t changed anything. She’d washed his clothes in the hamper and nothing had been touched in Kiran’s study. Malachi had made the notifications to The Council but Adara still kept everything the same. Some nights she still made Kiran’s favorites, like that would bring him home.His car keys remained in the bowl and she recorded everything the twins did, so that when he came back he could be part of everything he had missed. She even had his car serviced and started it every single morning to keep the battery charged.“You should just give her time, maybe give her what she wants and move to our own house. We’re close enough if anything happens and she’s not defenseless, she has Norah here,” Jessica said to Malachi.Adara sighed as she stood on the stairs and listened to them talk. She turned and went to her bedroom. Every day she scoured the internet for stories of acts of heroism. That was something Kiran could never stop doing, being the hero.She had phoned all the hospitals
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Five months later…Days had turned to weeks and Malachi’s hope was dwindling. Each day brought a fresh wave of sadness and worry. They had no body and no idea where Kiran had gone. He didn’t want to believe that his son was dead. He’d pleaded with the gods for a sign, any sign. Anything would be better than wondering. He wasn’t sure how much more he could handle.He was sitting at the dining table in the kitchen, staring at the newspaper in his hand but his thoughts were with Kiran. If he was indeed in Helheim, he hoped he wasn’t suffering, but even Jessica wasn’t sure. Kiran had said that Death liked to taunt and torture him. He shuddered at the thought of what Kiran must be going through.Adara pulled a chair out and sat down next to him. “Can I talk to you?”“Of course,” Malachi said and put his cup down. He folded the newspaper and looked intently at Adara.Adara fidgeted with her hands, seemingly nervous. “You don’t have to keep living here, your house was finished two months ago
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“What the hell do we do now?” Carl asked and James didn’t have an answer for him. He turned around without answering and followed Malachi out of the forest with Carl trailing behind him. They had walked into the house, the clearing littered with dead witches.“What happened?” Jessica asked as she stood up from the couch putting the glass of water down on the table as Malachi put Adara down on the couch and she curled herself into the fetal position and just cried.“He’s gone,” Malachi said and walked to the study, slamming the door behind him. He screamed and wiped everything off the chest that stood behind the couch and acted as a secondary table which held the glass bottles of brandy and whiskey and the tumbler glasses.He started hitting the wall in frustration as he struggled to deal with facts that he didn’t really know. He stopped when both hands were broken and his blood dripped onto the carpet. He sat down on the couch and he lowered his face into his hands and cried.Jessica
