Page 61 of Within the Veil

My voice takes on a hysteric air and my belly glows as vines start to burst from the ground, my hair standing on end.

"Hudson," King says softly. "Hudson, it's okay."

"Is it? Is it King? I'm the fucking Faerie Harry Potter and life is my Dumbledore. Here Hudson, follow all of these fucking crumbs just so you can be killed at the end," I sob, my voice breaking, my mind whirling. Too many emotions, sensory overload.Error, error.

I let out an ear-splitting scream and suddenly find myself...not in my house. Instead, I'm glowing brightly, in a forest in Gaia knows where.

I let my head fall back with a groan,"Ah, fuck. What did I do now?"

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Zane

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Everyone in the room freezes,jaws slack, and time slows to a standstill. What the fuck just happened. No. Seriously. What the fuck.

Then, the combined feeling of adrenaline rushing through the bond reaches a boiling point until the power in the room becomes stifling.

"Oh fuck," Ryder murmurs. I look back to see Hunter's eyes flash red, his claws shooting out of the tips of his fingers, as his muscle mass increases and he's suddenly inches taller.

"Where the fuck is my Mate?!" He thunders and punches a hole through the wall.

Remi steps closer to him, "Hey, big guy. I can still feel our bond. It's muted, but it's there. She is fine. Take a deep breath, she is not hurt, open yourself up and feel."

Grayson's hands shake, his muscles coiled as he tugs his hair at the roots. He tends to be more put together, but for how long, I'm not sure.

Oberon stands silent, his nostrils flaring as a quiet rage builds through his person. Between the three of them, Hudson won't have a home to come back to.

Fuck me, I press my hand to my chest, trying to think reasonably. I look at King, "Where the fuck is she?"

He closes his eyes and tries to tug on his bond with her, "She's not on this plane, that is for sure, but other than that, I cannot pick up on anything."

Jensi rubs his chest, "how fucking long has she been holding back her emotions? That shit hit like a dam."

Luca frowns, "Way too long. We should have been able to sense it. King, more than anything. But nothing. Sadness, a few periods of anger or annoyance. But what we just felt? That was a shit ton of repression. How was she able to hide that from us?"

King sighs, "Technically, she isn't. I can feel her damn heartbeat and hear the flush of blood through her veins, and at no point in time did it spike so severely that it would have been a cause for concern."

There are several crashes behind us as Hunter loses his shit. We need to find her before he destroys the entire fucking village.

"You guys may wanna send all those sentinel Xanax vibes to our in-house demonic entity before he, ah fuck did he just..."

"Rip the couch clean in half? Yes," I sigh.

I feel the burst of energy through our combined link, and it at least stops the rage enough for him to listen to Remi enough to feel for the bond to know that she is still alive, just not here.

The entire time Shea just stands, utterly confused. You can infiltrate the fucking Unseelie but have no idea how to respond when your daughter poofs out of this plane. Although, to be fair, neither did we.

"Where the fuck is my Mate," Hunter growls out. "I can feel her, but where the fuck is she?"

King, Jensi, and Luca continue to try to calm everyone in the room.

Ryder pauses briefly, and the tension in his shoulders suddenly eases as he looks at us, "She's in Tir na Síochaí."

"The fucking spirit realm? How the fuck did she even get there?"I ask, completely taken aback.

Ryder shrugs, "She's a Goddess. Who was just freaking the fuck out because she was emotionally overwhelmed."

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