Shiny Things: A Raven Shifter Forbidden Romance (Ravenden) by Julie Trettel

Author:Julie Trettel [Trettel, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 16

Something was wrong. I wasn’t sure what, but I could feel it in my bones.

When Kim hadn’t shown up after work, I started to worry. I had tried calling her, but there was no answer. I’d seen her phone on the couch when I walked into her home, so I knew now that she had been in the shower and didn’t have it on her, but at the time I was about to lose my shit.

Before I’d run off like a madman to Kim’s, I had called Gia and was told she had left a few hours earlier. She also mentioned something about an altercation with Joe Montgomery but said she didn’t know all the details, just that she gathered he’d gotten drunk and said some inappropriate things.

Without thinking of anything but my mate, I’d immediately jumped on my bike and raced over to her house. Her car was out front, but the house was dark. My whole body shook with fear, thinking the worse.

I had just spent much of my day hearing about the Collectors and how they were coming to Ravenden, and my mate was missing. Combine that with the asshole Gia had mentioned, and I was about to lose my shit.

Wanting to yell and scream at the universe, and at her for not letting me know where she’d gone, wasn’t going to help anything.

She stood there quietly watching me. Something was wrong.

“What is it, babe?”

She shook her head, but then she grabbed a towel and walked around me to go into her bedroom.

I cautiously followed.

“I’m sorry if I overreacted,” I tried.

Her shoulders slumped and she hugged herself. I hated seeing her like that.

When she looked back up at me I could see unshed tears in her eyes.

“Talk to me,” I begged, hating seeing her like this.

“I don’t even know what to say.”

“What did I do?”

She shook her head. “It wasn’t you. Not exactly at least.”

“So what is it then? Because I have to be honest, my raven nearly lost it when I thought you were missing.”

She looked at me curiously. “Why would you assume I was missing?”

“Because I couldn’t get in touch with you, Kim. Do you have any idea how scared I was? I heard about your encounter with Joe, and I’ve been sitting in meetings all day hearing about an impending Collector raid.”

She gasped. “What?”

“Shit. I wasn’t supposed to say that yet. You have to keep it to yourself. But you see why I started freaking out? You have to promise me you won’t go anywhere alone, babe. I won’t survive it if anything happens to you.”

She wrapped her arms around my waist and held me. My body shuddered as the tension fled me.

“I’m right here. I’m fine,” she assured me.

“Do you want to talk about what happened?”

She scoffed. “Which part?”

I frowned. “There was more than one incident?”

“Basically it was just one giant nightmare of a day today.”

“Tell me.”

She sighed. “I guess you’re going to hear about it eventually anyway. After you left I called Gia to come pick me up.

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