SARAThe moment Nadine turned back to me as we moved closer to the truck, I immediately knew something was wrong.My eyes widened in unmetered fright and my heart lurched as I saw the black shadow appear from nowhere, right behind her. Before I could get a grab of what was happening, it rose and consumed her in seconds.I almost lost my mind over what just happened. I let out a piercing scream, searching around for Nadine, and screaming her name around the park.Tears were beginning to pool uncontrollably out of my eyes. Some of the owners of the cars were in the park now, baffled at my screams and inquiring what was wrong but I couldn't find words to describe what I had just seen.I should have listened to Kai, listened to Adam. I shouldn't have been so selfish. I instantly hated myself. When it was certain Nadine was really gone, I collapsed on the floor of the park, wailing.The two guards from the store were already in the parking lot, carrying heavy bags of groceries and confuse
KAII was seething fervently with rage as I stormed back towards the house. I had just left the house that morning for a quick check at things over at the company and everything had gone in disarray. I should have stayed back and aborted any plan of going out.My mind had run wildly immediately after Adam gave me the news. I was enraged, how the hell did she fall into the hands of that bastard??Adam had filled me in on the details as I drove blindly back to the house. I held back my breath as I listened, my breaths coming in hot ragged intakes as I rimmed my hands forcedly on the steering wheel.How the hell had they gone through the gates? Where had Adam been? Had nobody seen them?The questions corroded my mind as I made my way into the living room to give each of them a piece of my mind, my chest beat hard against my ribs, and my stomach kept lurching. My wolf howled in despair. I was beginning to lose it.Sara was sobbing uncontrollably on the sofa, hair dishevelled and her face
NADINEIt all happened in a fraction of a second. One minute I was standing right in front of Sara, calling out to her, and the next, yanked by a force that was as dark as the night before everything turned black.I had desperately wished it was all just an awful nightmare. But as I opened my eyes slowly, I couldn't at first make out what I was, I knew I wasn't in the solace of my bed.Not until I rolled and noticed I was on the ground did I realise it was all real. My brain snapped open and my surroundings came into view bleakly.The room was pitch dark with only a glimmer of light at the far top of the ceiling which was metres away. I was on dusty ground with shards of hay and I could feel the taste of earth in my mouth.I shifted and rubbed on something rigid and I screamed before realising it was a huge gnarled root of a tree. With the dim light, I could make out I was in a large room that looked old and abandoned.The whole place was covered with overgrown decaying vines whose sm
SARA"It's okay, Sara. Kai is on his way to find her" My mom unrelentingly tried calming me down. She had been at it since I had gotten back with Adam. She had pulled an afghan after catching sight of my shaky body.As I narrated my ordeal to her in tears, I expected her to flare up and scold me for making such an irrational decision but she had kept quiet and comforted me instead. I didn't deserve any care, not unless I see Nadine again."No, it's not okay, it's all my fault. I should have never brought up that stupid idea" I whimpered. My sobbing seamlessly streamed and the more of how stupid I had been, the more the tears pooled out.I tugged the afghan tightly and cast a frightened look at my mom"What if Kai is too late? I will never forgive myself. " If the rogue had murdered Nadine before Kai got to her, I had a feeling I would do something to myself. And Kai would hate me forever for losing his mate and the only hope of Eden City.Kai had never spoken to me that way and I kne
KAIMy intuition guided me straight in the direction of Old Monroe. So did Nadine's faint scent. But most of all, the mate bond seemed to be the one driving me strongly.It was getting dark and I was at full speed, and already left a good distance with the vehicle conveying the guards. I couldn't get off the fact that the bastard had laid his hands on Nadine. I let out a fierce growl, I couldn't wait to tear him to pieces.The moment we entered the town, the smell waxed strongly and my hair was on edge. I was driving with unmetered rage. A putrid scent hit my nose and I immediately knew it was the bastards.I drove to the centre of the town where the smell reached its highest. The guards in the second vehicle got down immediately and I stopped. I checked out the buildings all around, calling out Nadine. Then it hit me, he was in a shadow.I had an inkling he was there, mocking me but I couldn't see him, not even his shadow this time around. My stomach churned as I wondered what state
KAIHis one good eye gleamed with rage as he lunged at me with his claws out. I anticipated his wacky move and jumped out of his line. I was swift and agile more than he was.I gestured to the guards to stay back. This was between me and the rogue.He growled fiercely at the miss, glaring at me and foaming at the side of his mouth. He took another swipe and viciously swiped in my direction.He missed again. I kept jumping out of his way until I could make his weakness. He could only swing as far as one eye could see.His muscles were coiled and he was always ready to swing, even half-blindly.I knew where to take him down.I grimaced at him as he gnashed his teeth after taking another miss. "Whatever breath you're taking now is your last" and he extended his claws and ran forward to slash me.Again, he missed and this time I was ready for him. I landed a huge blow to his one good eye and he writhed in pain, holding onto his eye. He staggered backwards and I extended my claws and slash
NADINEMy entire sleep was riddled with nightmares of a one-eyed wolf with thinning fur snarling fiercely at me. I was too shocked to move and kept screaming until it was dragged away by a huge wolf and flung into the darkness.The nightmare kept replaying over and over and I had no idea when it stopped.I opened my eyes lazily to stop the rays of the sun escaping from the edges of the curtains from hitting them. I made to turn to the other side of the bed and snuggle into the sheets. And my hands hit something fleshy. Alarms rang in my head and I blinked my eyes open.I could make out that I was tangled around the body of someone else. I screamed, remembering the state I had been in and the madman whose eyes screamed murder. I flung my head up to see Kai staring at me with a lazy gleam in his eyes. I screamed again at the top of my lungs and scuffled off the bed in a haze."What in the world do you think you're doing here?" I looked around furtively.I was back in the safety of m
NADINEThe moment I stepped foot into the kitchen that morning, Mama Teresa rushed over to give me a tight hug before guiding me to sit at the chair at the end of the dining table, a place Kai was used to sitting."I'm glad you came home back to us safely," She said as she grinned from ear to ear, her wrinkles showing faintly. "I prepared a special dish only for you, the rest of them get the normal" Mischief was etched on her face as she hurried over to the kitchen area to dish out the meals.Sara came sauntering in, refreshed and giggling as she sat next to me."Have you called Adam?" Mama Teresa called out to her."Yes, I already did, he is on his way" Just then, Adam came in, mumbling a greeting towards us and looking at Sara for a split second before heading over to help Mama Teresa with the plates. Sara held onto my hands like she had been doing since she came over to my room earlier. Her tears dried up immediately I had cried out to her to release me from the hug, or else I wo