Page 33 of Tangled Fates

“Good. Now, Levi. Follow me.”

We wasted no time in getting outside before I pulled him close into me.

“Are you sure?” I asked.

Levi nodded quickly. “I’ve checked Colin’s place up and down as well as Brody’s place. His fucking bed is made, Dean. And it’s dusty.”

“You’re joking.”

He shook his head. “I wish I were. Do you have any idea where he could—Dean!”

Before he spat out the words, my head fell back. No, not just my head, my entire fucking torso. My back cracked as a vision so heated and so angry slammed into the forefront of my mind that it damn near knocked me off my feet.

And as the images poured behind my rolled-back eyes, Levi’s arms wrapped around me.

“Come on, come back to me. Dean. Dean!”

“Someone help me!”

Brody’s voice echoed off the corners of my mind.

“Somebody! Anybody!”

“Will someone shut that dog up?”

“Dean, can you hear me? I can’t hold you up. I’m putting you on the ground.”

“Hello!?”

“I said, shut the hell up!”

Brody whimpered before an image paused at the front of my conscious mind. It was Brody, all right. Except he was practically cloaked in darkness. There were bars in front of his face. Silver bars that twinkled in a source of light that I simply couldn’t pin down. I whipped around, trying to figure out where the hell he was. Trying to figure out who had him captive.

And that was when I saw it.

“My, my,” a towering bear shifter said as he stepped out of the shadows, “what a lovely little pet my boys have brought me.”

“Let me go,” Brody growled.

It wasn’t just any bear shifter, though. It was their king. King Rothmir, to be exact.

“No,” Brody whispered.

Rothmir dipped down and stuck his finger through the bars of the cage. “Does my little pet want to go for a walk?”

“No!” Brody roared.

“Dean! Wake the fuck up!” Levi exclaimed.

I gasped for air as I bolted upright, my back covered in dirt and grass. I found myself surrounded by healers, all of them murmuring and laying hands on me as sweat dripped down my face.

“What the hell was that? I’ve never seen a vision take hold of you in that way,” Levi said breathlessly.

The thing was, I had no idea what the hell it had been either. Visions didn’t usually come with that kind of power, and it left me with more questions than answers. I knew one thing for certain, though. One thing that we had to address before we could move forward.

Brody was in trouble.

And we had to go get him before King Rothmir robbed him of his human side and forced him to stay a wolf.

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