Chapter 57

Axton POV

We left the boys with Eli and Michelle, knowing having to get them will only slow us down. Elena is a nervous wreck beside me, and all she has done is panic, conjuring up the worst-case scenario. What if the strigoi got Sondra? Or her father came back for revenge, or what if Osiris is behind it?

Yet I have a feeling Sondra is missing because she chose to go missing; the strong old bat takes shit from nobody, so I doubt if someone came after her, she would go quietly.

“She may have ducked into town,” I tell Elena, and she nods, staring off vacantly out the window. Her bottom lip quivers, and she presses her top teeth against it.

“Elena, we’ll find her. Marco has gone to check the commune. We can check in town; she is probably at the bakery, eating all the cupcakes,” I try to reassure her, and she turns her head to look at

“She’s dying, Axton,” she answers, and I swallow. Yeah, Marco had said something about taking care of her, but she looked okay the last time I saw her.

“We’ll find her,” I answer. We have to; I don’t think Elena will cope not knowing.

“Don’t go to the bakery. Go to Mary’s cafe,” Elena whispers, and I glance at her. I nod my head, taking the next turn to head down the main street of the small derelict town.

Pulling up along the curb, I don’t see her car anywhere or any sign of her. Elena gets out to check the old cafe, letting herself in with a

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she is determined to find Sondra also.

will check it out,” I tell her. Elena, however, shakes her

open, Elena sucks in a deep breath. “How do you have a key,” I ask her, and

certificate was in the place, it was handed back to Sondra, who in turn

too

ask, a little shocked. She sighs, stepping inside further, and my stomach drops, feeling her anguish. “Have you been back here… you know, since?” I stop myself,

me, she wanted me to burn it down, yet I couldn’t bring myself to step inside it,” she

of old fizzy drinks and outdated

I quickly rush down the stairs to the pitch-black basement, my vision adjusting as Khan steps forward. We peer around the place, and I walk to the back, calling out for Sondra but don’t find

I head back upstairs to find Elena, only she is no longer in the shop, yet I can

inside, it feels like deja vu when I spot her. She holds the same look on her face. Back then, I thought she was petrified of me finding her shacked up with. another man. Now seeing the same expression, I recognize

the same as all those months ago, and I kind of regret not getting my men to clear it out. As I wander over to her, she is staring at the bed. I slip my

guiltily. Khan had tried to tell me, but I was angry; I only believed what I wanted to believe

helping her, I hurt her more. “Sondra once said that some things she wanted to take

my head on her shoulder. “This is one of mine,”

if one is dead.

because he is seared into my memories. He got the easy way out. He took it to the grave while I live with

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