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Something flickered in the depths of Mason’s eyes, something that gave me the smallest shred of hope.
“Give him a minute.” Alpha Nolan murmured, turning to face me. His eyes were dark and his voice thick with repressed emotion. I hadn’t told Alpha Nolan the deal I made; I hadn’t told him the price I was willing to pay for his life.
Wetness cascaded down my face, and I realized I had been crying Alpha Nolan raised his hand as though he were going to wipe my tears away. I flinched away from his touch, and turned towards a stoic Breyona.
I couldn’t accept his comfort, couldn’t let him chase the h****r and ice from my veins. I deserved to feel everything for what I had done. I didn’t deserve an easy way out.
Breyona’s face was an impenetrable mask, her hazel eyes locked on my face. I wanted to say something, but what could I say?
“Anyone know how to hotwire a car?” Carter broke the thick silence, a frown etched onto his carefree face. “Cause I don’t feel like running three hours home.”
“I’ll find us a car.” Breyona grunted, her eyes flickering to the patch of forest Mason had wandered off into.
“Daisy, go with her.” Alpha Nolan murmured, his intense gaze heating my cold skin.
Breyona turned on her heel and headed back to the main road, leaving me to follow closely behind.
Once I had finally caught up to her, we walked down the dark road in silence. I could feel the whirlwind of emotions that swarmed within her, and cringed against their intensity.
“AreAre you mad at me?” I wanted to throw something, to smack myself across the face for saying something so careless.
“No.” Breyona used her voice like a whip, lashing against my chilled skin without mercy. “I understand why you did what you did, but that doesn’t change how Mason feels.”
“I know.” I choked out, my voice little more than a painful rasp. “I didn’t knowI didn’t know it would be her.”
“You want to know what pisses me off?” Breyona stopped d**d in her tracks, her hands resting on her hips. Breyona’s emotionless mask had shifted into one of irritation and anger. Her hazel eyes narrowed at me, sending a shard of regret burrowing into my stomach. “You were willing to give your d**n life without thinking it through.”
“I did think it through.” I shook my head furiously, tears pricking the backs of my eyelids. “I couldn’t”
“I know, Daisy. You couldn’t let him d*e.” Breyona snapped, running a hand through her short hair. “But don’t you get it? You can’t be a d**n martyr and throw your life away without thinking of the rest of us.
How would your Grandma feel? And what about Sean and your Dad?”
Millions of words flitted through my mind, and yet I couldn’t figure out what to say. Tears formed in
Breyona’s narrowed eyes, her slim figure shaking with anger.
“You’reyou’re mad I didn’t think it through?” I chuckled, ignoring the tears that escaped my weary eyes. “I k****d someoneI k****d Mason’s mate.”
“If Adrienne hadn’t been k****d by the shadows, what would have happened to her?” Breyona grimaced, as if the words burned her throat during their exit. “During the fight, what would have happened to her? Would we have spared her? Taken her as prisoner until she was forced to switch sides?”
I knew what she was asking, and I knew the answer. Adrienne would have died, or escaped to run back to the Vampire’s. While it nearly made my heart seize in my chest, there wasn’t a happy ending for
Adrienne and Mason.
“She would have died, or somehow gotten away.” Breyona murmured, “And I know how much Mason is hurting, but she wasn’t going to change sides. Does that make me a bad person?”
“I don’t know.” I murmured; my voice rough with exhaustion.
Just a mile up the road we found a small parking lot littered with different cars. A small sign sticking from the ground said this was where you park if you were going to take a bus. The bus stop sat at the corner, a few feet away from the parking lot.
The streetlights flickered dimly, and my eyes flickered to every shadow in sight. There was no movement, no slithery voice that cooed in my ear. Everything was still, even the crickets had fell silent.
Breyona picked a deep brown mini-van, set with at least thirty bumper stickers. The back window had one of those stick figure families. A stick figure Mom and Dad stood next to a child and a little dog.
Above the stick figure family was another sticker that said ‘my child made honor roll in 2019’.
“Not my first choice, but we have seven people to transport and we need something inconspicuous.”
Breyona grunted, catching my gaze as I looked over the tacky bumper stickers.
I leaned against the cold metal of the mini-van in silence, watching as Breyona messed with an assortment of wires.
“How did you learn to hotwire a car?” I found myself asking, thankful for a distraction from my own inner turmoil.
“Made some human friends a year ago.” Breyona shrugged. The engine roared to life and Breyona shot me a half-hearted grin, “They taught me a thing or two.”
We drove back to the abandoned house, maneuvering around the back end of the wrecked SUV.
Smoke was no longer billowing from the hood and thankfully the car hadn’t erupted in flames.
Alpha Nolan, Carter, Wade, Sean and Mason stood around the side of the house, keeping out of view from the road. Breyona pulled into the gravel driveway and hopped out of the van.
“A mini-van?” Carter scoffed, giving Breyona a side-eyed glance. “Thats the best you could do?”
“I’m sorry we can’t fit seven people in a d**n sports car.” Breyona snapped, “It’s bad enough were stealing one car, let’s not add another to the list.”
“Alright, alright.” Carter grimaced; his hands raised in surrender.
Alpha Nolan climbed into the driver’s seat, while everyone else filed into the back. I leaned my cheek against the passenger window, unable to feel the cold of the glass.
Alpha Nolan, Carter, Wade and Sean were all splattered in blood. The sickly-sweet scent was all over their clothes, staining their skin.
We all fell into a heavy silence, each of us baring the weight of what happened tonight. Every other minute Alpha Nolan’s toffee-colored eyes would find their way to my face and linger there for a few moments. When we were half an hour away from home, Sean spoke up.
“Alphacould I stay in the packhouse tonight?” Sean’s voice sounded fragile, as though it were a paper-thin sheet of glass. “Just for the nightI just need some time alone before I see Dad and
Grandma again.”
“Of course.” Alpha Nolan nodded, his eyes never once leaving the road. “I’ll have Beta Devin bring you to one of the suites when we get back.”
“I’ll have to at least call Grandma.” I frowned at Sean, looking over his haggard and exhausted face.
“She kind of figured out where we were going tonight.”
“Of course, she did.” Sean chuckled, but it sounded weak and forced.
Alpha Nolan dropped Mason and Breyona off at their houses, followed by Carter and Wade. Mason hadn’t said a word or spared me a glance as he hopped out of the van, trudging up the steps to his house.
‘Give him time.’ Maya murmured, ‘His mate rejected him for a Vampire, and she died. He has a lot to sort through.’
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