Chapter 0535

My eyes fly open in the real world and I'm instantly in action, as is Jackson - because the shouts here?

God, they're even louder and more panicked than those we heard dreaming.

I leap out of bed, ripping the curtain open, already starting across the room when I stumble over my own feet, my jaw dropping open when I see the sight before me.

Rafe - already across the room - staring helplessly at Jesse's bedside as our cousin sits up in bed, his arms held out in front of him, shouting in his panic as shadows writhe all around him - moving in circles around his arms like snakes, encircling his waist, his torso - Even wrapping around his neck-

"Holy shit," Jackson whispers behind me, but then he barrels past me over to Jesse's bed, reaching for him.

I follow, urging my feet faster, running to Rafe's side as Jackson leaps onto the bed, skidding to a stop in front of Jesse and reaching for him, but not touching him - not yet.

"Jesse!" Jackson shouts, "stop screaming!"

Jesse just looks at Jackson like he's insane and keeps going.

"What happened!?" I gasp, grabbing hold of Rafe's arm and looking up into his face.

idea!" Rafe exclaims, staring at Jesse, looking more confused and at a loss for what to do than I've perhaps ever seen him. "I just - he started screaming

of Jesse's face, the Alpha command loud in

it works, snapping Jesse out of it, and

I know it's not for Jesse - it's for anyone that did this to him - is

the bulk of Rafe's arm while my brother stands stock straight, terrified, both of us

continue to writhe, slow and menacing, all around his limbs, his neck, his hair. I watch them, the

as I search for the beginning and end of

me when he hears my little

his eyes darting from side to side, more shadows puffing out of his mouth with each breath, smokey grey and diaphanous, slipping downward to get caught up in the eddies of his other shadows, which continue to move. "They're...they don't hurt," he says, the words spilling out of him in a raspy stutter as he - I think -

go out of Rafe as Jesse says this and I feel a similar

"Jess," Jackson says quietly,

forward, putting his hand flat on my cousin's chest But Jackson doesn't look down at his hand, even as the shadows begin to curl curiously around it, licking at his

breathe easier, glancing down at Jackson's

says, his voice much calmer now, infusing calm into the whole room. "I think...these shadows

eyes go as wide as mine now and

Rafe breathes,

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