Kane's Mate(8)
“Come here now, Faith. I always wanted my own soothsayer, especially one as talented and beautiful as you.” He laughed again. “They’re so hard to find. Ah, but I’ve been watching you. You have so much potential. It is foretold you’ll be one of the greatest if you apply yourself. Pity you wanted to be normal, but don’t worry, we’ll work on it, and we will make this Armageddon on your world look like child’s play. The other worlds won’t know what hit them. You will be my greatest treasure, a reward for my patience.” He cackled again. “Come to me, and I will let the wolves live. Well, maybe for a day or two.” He laughed again as a helicopter blew up.
“Fools, they only give us more energy,” one of the smaller demons said. “We’ve been planning this for centuries. Australia is one of the best places for an underground operation to go unnoticed since the country is so young and not as populated as others are. It helps that it has the smallest werewolf population. Because of all that we have gone unnoticed for hundreds of years.”
All the demons in hearing distance laughed. The biggest one came for her, stabbing Jack’s heart as he stalked her.
Faith came out of the vision screaming. Her eyes swept frantically around the room, and when they landed on Jack, she shoved out of Kane’s arms, throwing herself toward Jack. “I…saw…I saw… You can’t die! I will save you all.” She would learn to advance her powers. They would win.
She clung to Jack like her life depended on it. Jack rocked her and smoothed her hair back. With her head swimming from the information the vision had just shown her, she tried to comprehend it all, then the world before her suddenly turned black and she passed out from exhaustion.
* * * *
Kane looked around his lounge room at the grim faces. Faith had never had a vision that had lasted that long. Usually the most she zoned out for was two to three minutes tops, and they were never unexpected anymore, she always felt them coming on. Today, though, she’d been out for about three hours.
Kane gazed at the pale, terrified, worried faces of his family members as they watched Faith. She had never come out of a vision screaming in terror or passed out afterward. He looked at his princess as she clung to his dad even in her unconscious state. His mother’s face drained of color as she paced before the sofa, obviously debating what to do.
His dad looked up at Griffen who was sweating and white as a ghost. “What’s she feeling? What did you get?”
Griffen slumped to the ground. “Not good, Dad, not good at all. I’ve never felt anything so powerful, and the worst thing was half of that was dark power.”
His dad’s brow furrowed. “What’s she feeling now?”
“Drained, exhausted, terrified, but she’s hanging in there. God, she’s amazing.”
His dad nodded in agreement and hugged Faith tighter. She sighed and relaxed her grip, and her breathing changed to a more relaxed sleeping pattern.
Kane went to his dad to take his mate. He and his wolf were edgy, and he needed to hold Faith, to know she was all right.
Jamie and Devlin stopped him. “You are not touching her. She isn’t even with you twenty-four hours and look what happened. She has avoided you and not spoken to you in over four years. For crying out loud, to get her to come home we had to tell her you were seeing a woman who you were seriously considering mating and moving closer to the city with. When she does finally spend time with you, look what happens.”
Devlin lifted Faith into his arms. Kane could see the love they had for her shinning in their eyes. Devlin turned to walk out of the house when Kane’s wolf took him back over four years to that Halloween weekend, showing him the scenes again, with things he didn’t want to remember. Kane doubled over, feeling sick as he relived what had happen when she stopped talking to him.
“I hurt her deliberately, hoping it would stop her following me like my shadow, but I did it more so she would stop loving me.” He looked up into all their faces. “I wanted her to hate me, avoid me, and then maybe I would stop loving her instead of feeling like a cradle robber.” He sighed. “She was sixteen, I was frigging thirty. It was the first time, though, that I really saw her for what she was to me, she was a real princess, and I knew she had chosen that outfit especially for me. I took one look at her and if I wasn’t already in love with her I would have been. I had never felt like that before, and I was terrified. My God, you guys have to remember she looked stunning, like a fantasy princess. I couldn’t take it, so I went to find the she-wolf I was seeing at the time. We were going at it in my room when I felt Faith coming. It was then for the first time I smelt her chocolate and vanilla scent. I heard her open the door, so I said ‘I love you,’ looking at the she-wolf. I heard Faith gasp then run away. I made it worse when I called Faith’s name when I finished, which didn’t go down well with the she-wolf. She left, but she went to go find Faith. I think I caught all the conversation, stuff about her only having a crush on me and me thinking of her as an annoying necessity, I think I even felt the pain from where I was hiding like a coward. Then the she-wolf said that I was alpha, next in line, and she was just a nobody human. I nearly broke then, my wolf wanted to kill the she-wolf, but I held back and as soon as the she-wolf was done I grabbed her and we left. I broke Faith’s heart. That’s why she has had nothing to do with me.”