Radiant Light_A Reverse Harem Romance by Chloe Adler

Author:Chloe Adler [Adler, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947156067
Publisher: Signum Publishing
Published: 2018-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Dominic

The Grove at night without my pack is spooky, yes, but that’s not what’s keeping me awake at night. I have to force something down. Not eating and not sleeping can lead to bad decision-making, or worse. In the kitchen, I fill a pot with water and set it to boil on a burner, pulling some boxed pasta down from a shelf. Mac and cheese. Comfort food. I’m sorely in need of some comfort right now.

Days without Iphigenia, Thorn and Rhys are starting to affect me. The few texts I sent her yesterday and the day before were answered with detachment, not the warm, bubbly Iphigenia we all know and love. She’s trying to work things out, I get that, but it doesn’t stop me from missing her. I’m grateful that Rhys has her back even if he hasn’t reported in, but where did Thorn go?

I pace back and forth in my tiny home, waiting for the water to boil, wondering when Caspian will return home from work. He’s been avoiding me by putting in extra hours at the station, using the excuse that Sheldon has called for an all-out ghoul hunt. Every time he calls me looking for Thorn, I have to make up some excuse as to why the dragon can’t help their efforts. I leave out the part where it’s my fault he left. At least Nolan is safe and sound at Rhys’s house right now. When I checked on him earlier, he had just ordered dinner in the form of a donor.

When the water finally comes to a boil, I tear open the box, pull out the cheese packet and pour in the elbow macaroni, stirring slowly with a wooden spoon.

I can’t stop blaming myself for all the fighting. I keep circling back to Rhys and Nolan too. Why is everyone trying to destroy what I’ve been working so hard to fix? I’m trying to keep the family together and it seems like they’re trying to tear us apart. Rhys starving himself for Iphi and attacking me. Nolan letting himself be captured and controlled by a demon. Thorn trying to claw out my eyes, and now he’s who knows where. How could I lose the three of them and my dream girl in less than a week? Will I find a way to drive Nolan off too? Best laid plans . . .

My front door creaks open a hair. Iphi’s bright voice slips through the gap between the door. “Dom? Are you home?”

The house is dark, aside from the light over the stove top, but the porch light outside limns her outline, even the curling of her hair. “Iphi? What are you doing here? It’s so late.” My eyes seek out my clock in the blackness. It’s midnight, and yet, here she is.

She steps inside, then halts. “I can’t see anything. Can you turn on a light?”

I switch on the door light for her, dialing the dimmer switch down low for me.

“I tried calling and texting but you didn’t answer.

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