Chapter 34

MALACHI I sit on the edge of the bed and watch Axl, completely helpless in the face of his pain. All of our pain, because Xavier and I feel the same bone-deep, soul-aching despair that he’s feeling right now. I rub a hand over his hip, and he shivers, his blank eyes staring through me. “What the fuck’s an elementai, Kai?” Xavier growls. “You’ve heard of these things before?” When we first came to Montridge and I met other vampires, I was obsessed with the ancient magic. Then I met Osiris, a young wolf who was in Alexandros’s class and shared my love of the subject. He and I would pore over old texts the professor would borrow from the faculty library. But then Osiris graduated and left me behind. The pain overshadowed my interest, and then I found other things to dedicate my time to. “Yeah, but like I said, I thought they were a myth.” Xavier paces from one end of the room to the other, his hands stuffed in the pockets of his sweatpants. “But now you know they’re not. So what the fuck