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“Who could have-“
he stopped, abruptly, and I knew he knew the answer. It was obvious.
“She doesn’t remember anything,”
I added, unable to hold back the tears that slipped past my eyes. I had never been this confused and torn at the same time.
I buried my face in my hands. “We need to do something, Killian. It’s only a matter of time before the council finds out who killed Cora, and it will lead them straight to Naomi. What do you think they’ll do?”
“Enough, Lorenzo. I need to think,”
I was up from the chair. I had to come up with something before the Council found out Naomi was the vessel or responsible for Cora’s death. They won’t hesitate to have her killed if it means getting rid of Shota’s darkness. f**k. I couldn’t let that happen. I’d die first before that happened.
I was vibrating with so many emotions which were making me unable to think clearly. All that drowned my thoughts was Naomi. She had been through so much to have to deal with this.
I was struggling to stay in control. Ryker was in so much tumult and pain. Why in the bloody goddess’s name did it have to be Naomi?
I punched hard against the wall and created a wide hole in it. Lorenzo rushed to my side but thankfully, he didn’t make the mistake of holding me back. In this state, I wasn’t sure what I was capable of doing. I felt this deep-rooted hole in my heart, I closed my eyes, releasing the tears that had been eager to wander free. I needed to think.
“I have to go,”
I left Lorenzo’s spell room and the first thing I did as soon as I stepped into the unwelcoming darkness, I raced into the woods, stripping, giving Ryker full control in his form to release this staking agony within us.
We ran tirelessly for hours, never getting exhausted and still unable to get rid of the pain in my chest. I couldn’t show myself to Naomi like this. She would be able to see through the pain in my eyes, and I couldn’t let her know yet, not until we came up with something.
After a while, I shifted back to my human form and headed back to the castle. I had been standing in front of the door to our chamber for almost an hour now, unable to go in. There was no way I could hide my emotions from her, and that was the last thing she needed. Now it would be better if this thing inside her had no idea we knew Naomi was the vessel.
I sighed, pulling the door open and my eyes fell on Naomi curled up on the bed. She had changed into fresh clothes and was fast asleep. I climbed in next to her, pulling her into my embrace. I buried my nose in the crook of her neck, inhaling deeply. She was the peace I needed, and for a second, I felt my pain and agony melt away.
I woke up to a new day. It was the early hours of dawn, and Naomi was still curled up in my arms. I watched her sleep so peacefully, and my mind became clearer. I knew exactly what I was going to do, and it in no way involved handing my mate over to the Council. But I couldn’t do this alone. I needed help from those who loved her as much as I did.
Almost two hours later, I was in my office with Morgan, Lorenzo, Valerie, Kaiser, and Leonardo.
I was leaning on my table with my face in my hands as I kept on fighting the tears that had gathered in my depths. It’s been almost an hour since Lorenzo and I broke the news to everyone, and neither Leonardo nor Kaiser had muttered a word since. My eyes moved to Leonardo who was sitting right opposite me, with his striking blue eyes caging his pain and sadness, before shifting to Kaiser. He has been frozen against the wall close to the door with his arms crossed over his chest, and eyes almost swollen. “Leonardo, Kai,”
I called their attention back to the room, needing their final approval for the plan we had in mind. We were already running out of time and we needed to find a way to deal with this before the Council found out about Naomi. “What do you say?”
I asked in hopes that they would agree. We didn’t have an option.
This was the only way Naomi would be protected, and it would buy us enough time to keep her from being used by this darkness to complete the ritual preparations and figure out how to save her from Shota’s magic without killing her. We had no way around that yet, but I believe we would find a way. We had to.
Leonardo threw a glance at Kaiser, before inhaling deeply and his eyes met mine. “Let’s do this,”
he said, and my gaze moved to Valerie.
She leaned forward on the table about to speak when the door pulled open, abruptly.
Everyone’s gaze turned to the door, and Naomi stepped in. Her perfect long eyebrows crumbled, moving from everyone in the office, before meeting my amber gaze.
“What’s going on here?”
She spoke in her soft voice, giving a warm embrace to Kaiser before moving to Leonardo, sending a small smile to Morgan, Valerie, and Lorenzo.
I held my hand out to her, masking every emotion I felt. I pulled her into my lap, as she scanned the room once more.
“What’s wrong? Did something happen?”
she asked slowly, and my eyes moved to Valerie’s and the others’.
“Not really,”
Valerie leaned forward. “We were only discussing the next course of action. With everything that’s happening at the Council, we’ve decided to continue with the ritual on Shota’s bones to find out who the vessel is, and instead of using the Council, we’ve decided to use the pack instead,”
she said, tilting her head to Leonardo.
“The Black Blood Pack?”
she asked, surprised, intertwining her fingers with mine as Valerie nodded.
“It will be much better, sister. The sooner we find out who the vessel is, it’ll be much better for us all,”
Leonardo said, and she nodded gently.
“Do you need my help with anything?”
Her eyes shifted to Valerie.
“No. There’s no need, it’ll be much better if you take some rest instead,”
Valerie said and gently, I wrapped my hands around Naomi’s waist, feeling the warmth from her body against mine and hoping it would stop the sudden stinging of my eyes.
I wasn’t liking any of these. But this had to be done for Naomi’s sake. I had to help her before she did more things she would never forgive herself for. We all knew Cora was killed to prevent the ritual from happening, and knowing what’s in Naomi, it would do anything to try to stop this one. Instead of walking into a ritual, it would be walking into something else. This was Valerie’s final test to be sure if Naomi was the vessel.
We concluded the plan with Naomi, after which, everyone began to leave.
Naomi turned to me, “I need to talk to Lorenzo,”
she said, kissing my lips before pulling up from my lap. She was asleep last night, and I hadn’t told her anything about what Lorenzo said.
I watched Naomi leave the office, and a few minutes later she was back.
“And what did he say?”
I asked regardless, knowing exactly what Lorenzo would say.
“He’s still working on the spell,”
she said, sitting on the seat opposite mine, stretching her hands out to me, and I took them immediately. “I was thinking about what happened last night, and-“
she drew in a sharp breath, while I held on to her last words. “I want to go to the Council today.”
“Why?”
I was up from my chair, moving to where she was seated.
She was quiet for a second. Her eyes looked like she wanted to tell me something, but she shook against them.
“What do you mean by ‘Why’?”
she asked, “I killed Cora, Killian.”
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