And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 68: Finding Talon

The sound of crunching snow beneath my boots echoed around me. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting, but the surrounding forest was silent except for the noise we made. Kate and I ventured deeper into the forest until a small clearing with a log cabin came into view.

“Is he there?” I asked as we stopped, curious about why a random cabin sat so far within the depths of the forest. It had taken us over an hour to get here on foot, but that was because I couldn’t shift to make the process go by faster.

Kate hesitated before slowly nodding and it became clear that she was nervous about being here, and considering everything the guys had explained to me, I didn’t blame her.

Talon was far worse than anyone had thought him to be, and even though I desperately wanted to save him, I knew there was a possibility I wouldn’t be able to.

Taking a deep breath, I stepped forward. The cabin was my target, and if Talon was in there, then I had to see him. I had come too far to turn back now, and there was no way I would be leaving without him.

“It’s okay, Kate. Everything is going to be okay.”

My words were meant for comfort, but Kate gave me a look that showed doubt.

“Don’t assume it will be all sunshine and rainbows, Ivy. The Talon you know isn’t the same one out here. It’s what everyone has been trying to tell you, and if you’re not careful, he will kill you.”

I knew what she was saying was true, but I also had faith I could bring him back.

I had faith he would return to me, and the goddess that loved them would help me do that.

As my feet hit the wooden deck of the cabin’s porch, I paused, taking a moment to let everything sink in. There was a chance he was on the other side of this door. There was a chance that with everything I had gone through, I was about to be reunited with him.

The thought alone gave me hope, but as my hand hovered over the doorknob, I couldn’t find the strength to open it. “It’s okay, Ivy. Just open it,” Kate replied, bumping me with her shoulder and giving me a smile. Nodding, I quickly turned the doorknob and let the door swing open.

I had been hoping and praying Talon was sitting inside waiting for me to come to him, but in the end, I was met with nothing but cold emptiness.

“He isn’t here,” I said as I stepped forth into the cabin and Kate joined me, shutting the door behind her. “Where is he?”

“Probably in his animal form, Ivy. We aren’t sure if he comes back here, but every time he has been seen, he isn’t in his human form.”

“Why didn’t you tell me that before?” I asked, turning to her with confusion, “you could have said something.”

“We have, in the past forty-eight hours you have been told. I’m sorry, Ivy. I wish it was just as easy as us coming here, and him waiting for you. It would make all of it so much easier, but unfortunately. We are that fortunate.”

Her words weren’t comforting, but as my eyes cast around the cabin, I couldn’t help but feel like he had been here and very recently.

The cabin was small and held no bedrooms; instead, it had a very open floor plan that was perfect for a single person. A small bed with a blue quilt sat to the side of one cabin, and a small kitchen sat on the other side. It was perfect enough for someone who was trying to escape his life, but at the same time, it felt lonely.

Tears welled within my eyes, realizing this is where Talon had escaped to escape the pain he felt when my bond with him had severed.

“I have to find him, Kate,” I whispered loud enough that Kate heard me. “I need to go out there and find him.”

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wrist. “We will camp here tonight, and hope that he either

find him now. I wanted to find him before the guys got here

to get very cold around here and hungry things come out at night. We can’t

in the dark,

remembering I wasn’t one of them, I had to learn to face facts. I was useless in

heavy sigh, knowing

it out, okay? I’m just trying to keep your sweet little ass alive, Ivy. Now, I will start a fire. Why don’t you look for anything

of what she told me to do. The entire time, my mind was spinning with the idea Talon was out there somewhere

coffeel managed to scrounge up in the kitchen. Laughter escaped us as we talked about the escapade we had in the town with my father’s

times like this I was grateful for Kate because she had the ability to help people forget about their problems just

she shrugged. My thoughts of my dad

wouldn’t put it past your dad. He seems like a

was saying. “Yeah, he isn’t the man I was hoping for him to be. Then again, I have been naïve

looked at me with confusion before

for you to not know much about our lives, Ivy. It was kept from you forever, and no one bothered to properly explain things to you

trying to make me feel better about everything, but she couldn’t deny I have made

“Still, I

hesitations, she nudged me a

handled the news so well. I was surprised you didn’t flip out

already grown used to the idea of wolves and whatever else might be out there. Then

situation, and

growl emitted from within the darkness outside. Both of our

circling the cabin, and even though we used the wooden barricade to lock the cabin door-it wouldn’t hold back a wolf

at me quickly and shake her head no. I wasn’t linked with Kate, so communication wasn’t possible, but I watched her

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She was reaching Angel.

There was a calling between us. Something inside me that let me know the monster on the outside

run to him, I couldn’t. I had to think smarter, and I had to be patient. It wasn’t just

eyes cleared, she pulled out her phone and typed out a message

forty minutes out. A wreck on the highway has delayed them. They said

hand over my face, I sighed.

Talon, and not sit locked away in a cabin waiting for the guys to get here to rescue me. Otherwise, why did I come in the first

could get Kate hurt…

of a plan, but everything came to a roadblock

stared at me in shock before I broke contact

consumed us as Talons’ wolf slammed against the door to the cabin over and over again. The wood held it together, cracking

his wolf once or twice before, and both times his wolf

she grabbed her bag and quickly began to pull out a tranquilizer gun and darts. The

are

pulling things out. “What the fuck