Awakening the Night by W.J. May

Author:W.J. May
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fae, fantasy witches, fantasy new adult, paranormal shifter romance, shifter romance, coming of age, vampires, vampires and witches, shifters, shifter, dark fantasy, superhero fantasy ebooks, witches, superhero, paranormal fantasy, paranormal romance, New Adult & College Romance Paranormal, Fairy, new adult, new adult and college, New Adult & College Romance, w.j. may, chronicles of kerrigan, supernatural, romance, mystery, superpowers, paranormal, boarding school, series, magic, fairytale, fairy tale, sequel series, sequel, Arthurian, dragons, MM, LGBTQ, urban fantasy, werewolf series, Young Adult, suspense, horror, horror romance, werewolves, werewolf romance, paranormal new adult romance, young adult paranormal, vampire romance, shapeshifter wolf romance, young adult fantasy, werewolf
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2024-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

I DREAMED OF MY MOTHER again. I dreamed of Lily Hayes’ fear and anger and helplessness.

Through her eyes, images were less blurry, the voices less warbling, but it was still difficult to make out much of anything. This time, it wasn’t her alone or her interacting with one person. It was more from intuition and being a little in tune with her emotions that I could tell she was in front of a large, shouting crowd.

Lily’s wrists were cuffed, but she tried her best to cover her stomach. She was rooted to the spot but frantically thinking of an escape plan. At least, that’s what I assumed. If I were her, the first thing I would do if I were captured would be to get bloody out of there—

“Bas!”

The female voice was unfamiliar. Was it Lily’s, somehow speaking into my subconscious?

“Bastian!”

It became clearer. No, it couldn’t be her.

“Hayes!”

I jolted awake from a cold stone floor. No one called me that except for Tessia Akeso.

The first thing I noticed was the metal cuffs cutting into my wrists. Well, wasn’t that cruelly ironic.

Though I wanted to cling to the memory, I had a feeling that my current situation had to take precedence. My vampire senses took in the scene. It was quite different than where we’d gotten our butts kicked.

It was similar to the cave outpost: an underground space without any light except for the candles bolted into the far rock wall. My eyes adjusted to the darkness to make out the metal bars just two feet in front and to the sides. I could sense a wall behind me.

It was Emalyn’s and Tess’s voices that pulled me out of the dream. I turned toward them on my right. My heart jumped into my throat. They were on the other side of the bars, only two inches apart. Even worse than seeing us separated was the fact that their faces were battered and bruised—and caked in blood.

But the smell didn’t hit my nose. The sickening stench of leather blocked it.

I tried to open my mouth to ask what in Death’s name was happening, but all that came out was “Mmm!”

“It’s to keep you from biting and being tempted by blood,” Tess said quietly.

Oh, really?!

“We’ve been captured,” Em said as I scooted over to them, where they leaned against the bars, shoulder to shoulder, as if to keep warm. “We’re cuffed, too. We can’t enact spells without our hands.”

Their voices were rough and raw. I took stock of their injuries, getting angrier with everyone I noticed. Whoever hurt them is going to pay. I’ll get this mask off and I’ll tear them to—

I stopped the thought in its tracks. Well, that was violent. And then I remembered how Lily felt looking at herself in the mirror, the burn-the-world-down despair and anger, and then Koen’s description of her. Fiery. Stubborn. Always angry about something.

Maybe I took after her more than I knew.

Only a select few could tell me more about Lily Hayes. I needed to get the three of us back to the Kairos.

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