Chapter 184

ZAYNE’S POV Two days. Kaela had lain on the bed, unmoving, for two fucking days while I slowly lost my mind. I hadn’t been able to sleep or eat or do anything other than watch her, desperately praying to the goddess for her to wake up. Something hot and insistent vibrated in my chest—a strange fear I didn’t think I’d ever felt before, not even during the countless times Andrea and the twins had been in danger. It burned hotter the longer Kaela stayed unconscious. I cursed myself for not stopping her sooner. She’d been overexerting herself for a while now, and I let myself be blind to it because I wanted to find Nora as soon as possible. Guilt ate at me. Kaela had no business being wrapped up in all this; she was only here because of me, because of our bond. And what right did I have to ask all this of her? To put her in this position? I should have— “You’re going to burn a hole in the floor with all that pacing.” I froze in the middle of the motel room, my head snapping toward the soun