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

Dividing into pages now

of keys. She pauses at the door, and I stop on my way to the bakery to watch her. Her hands shake as she tries to get the key in the lock. Fear slivers through the bond, yet she is determined to find Sondra also. Forgetting the bakery, I walk over to her and grab the key from her hand. She glances over her shoulder at me,

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

breath. “How do you have a key,”

out Jake never bought it, so once her death certificate was in the place,

too

She sighs, stepping inside further, and my stomach drops, feeling her anguish. “Have you been back here… you know, since?” I stop myself, only now realizing how much

Sondra gave it to me, she wanted me to burn it down, yet I couldn’t bring myself to step inside it,” she whispers while looking up at

pretty much empty, though the fridges are full of old fizzy drinks and

stairs to the pitch-black basement, my vision adjusting as Khan steps forward. We peer around the

in the shop, yet I can feel she is close by, so I pull on the bond,

Back then, I thought she was petrified of me finding her shacked up with. another man. Now seeing the same expression, I recognize it for what it

I kind of regret not getting my men to clear it out. As I wander over to her, she is staring at the

the bed, I swallow guiltily. Khan had tried

her more. “Sondra once said that some things

turn my head on her shoulder. “This is one of

you know the saying, two can keep a secret if one is

into my memories. He got the easy way out. He took it

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