chapter 25

Kyan “Kyan, I..I…I did something bad; I killed them,” Marabella says. I can feel how scared she is, feel her anguish. She is in the city, I know that. That is what woke me; she is so close to me that it alerted me through the bond that she is in trouble. The bond she is unaware we already share. “Marabella?” I call out to her, but all I can make out is that she is sobbing. My heart feels like it splits in two. “Ella, talk to me.” I urge her, but I get no answer. “Pull over, I will find her quicker,” Kaif says, but the thought of letting him out frightens me. “Just tell me where,” I tell him, cracking down the window. We are wasting time, pointlessly driving around in a circle. “Left,” Kaif says right when I nearly drive past the corner he wants me to take. Ripping on the wheel, the back end of my car hits the light pole, scraping across the trunk as we take a sharp turn. “Ella, are you there? Speak to me, please. Just keep talking to me,” I tell her, but she is rambling nonsense when I