Page 68 of Wanted

I yank my hand back. “I’m not going with you.”

“Alena, please don’t be like this,” Chloe says. “We can discuss this more later.”

Shaking my head, I take a step back.

Matthias growls, “Just grab her, we don’t have time for this. We need to leave before we’re attacked.”

Chloe hesitates, clearly not comfortable with the idea.

But Caden has no problem with it.

Moving faster than I can blink, he picks me up and throws me over his shoulder.

It takes me a few seconds to reorient myself and figure out what happened.

But once I do, I start pounding on his back and tell him to, “Let me go!”

Ignoring me, Caden asks Matthias, “Where are we moving to?”

“The house in Boston,” Matthias answers.

“No,” I moan in terror, my body turning so cold itburns.

I can’t go back there. I won’t.

SIX

RAPHAEL

A thick red haze clouds my vision and blocks out the world. There’s nothing now except for truly being alone.

Alena will grow old and die, and I won’t be able to save her.

She’s been tainted forever.

They’ve done it.

The Order.

I know it was them. I know because of what they did to Isaac.

A foul, disgusting smell oozed from her wound, and I still smell it in my nose.

It’s keeping our bond from fully forming. I can feel it in the very marrow of my soul. It’s a festering rot that tries to break our connection.

Tries to breakfate.

And it will probably succeed…

I ran from her, but I had to.

If I had stayed, it would have been my ruin.

She doesn’t deserve my pain added on top of hers.

She doesn’t deserve the rage.

Or the insurmountable sorrow.

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