Lahat ng Kabanata ng Mist: Kabanata 81 - Kabanata 90

We drove away from the warehouse, and I looked back at it. The little girl stood at the door and she lifted her hand in a small wave. I shifted in my seat and looked at Kiran as he stared at James, his hand on his chest.“Dad, what the hell happened?” I asked him, as tears made their way across his cheeks.“I was too late. He came in through the door before I was there to blind them,” he said to me, and I couldn’t believe that James was dead.“Kai, you have to end it with this other woman. Kari will need you now, more than ever. Her whole family’s dead,” Malachi said emotionally, from the front seat.“I know,” I murmured. I didn’t know how I was going to do that, but Malachi was right.“This is where you step up, and be a man, the man she needs you to be,” Malachi continued, and I looked out of the window. I had just asked her to stay a few hours earlier.We were quiet as we drove back to Kiran’s house. He carried James inside, and put him down on the couch. We all just stood there, l

Malachi emptied his glass of Scotch and looked at Kiran where they sat opposite each other on the couches in Kiran's study.“I think Kai’s enchanted,” Kiran said.“Why do you think that?” Malachi asked him, with a frown.“In the car the other night, he said he loved them both, and it’s not possible. An Alpha always imprints on his true mate,” Kiran said.“That’s true, for the most part, but the way things are with them, it’s hard to believe that they did imprint,” Malachi said.“I know, but enchantment is the only other thing that makes sense to me. If I’m right, then Kai can’t really help it. He’ll be drawn to this other woman, and think only of her when he’s with her, and the same thing will happen when he’s with Kari, but slowly, the feelings will go away until she’s drawn it all out of him, and eventually he won’t feel anything for Kari,” Kiran said with a sigh.“She’s a witch then,” Malachi stated.“She has to be, but I just can’t figure out why she’d want to do this to Kai,” Kir

Another day passed in silence in our house. Kiran phoned every six hours to check up on me, disguising the phone call as concern for Kari, but I knew he was making sure that I was with her. Kari was still in shock, coming to grips with the fact that her whole blood family was now dead.The police turned up at our house the next day to break the news to Kari, that they had found James in his car, shot in the head. I stood behind her as tears made their way across her cheeks. She cried the whole time, and I felt helpless, but she refused to let Kiran take the pain from her.I spoke to Raven every day, and on the third day, I finally managed to go and see her. Everything inside me screamed to be with her, and I couldn’t stay away, no matter how much I told myself I shouldn’t go, that Kiran would be disappointed in me.My responsibility was to look after Kari, and be there for her, and I tried, I really tried. She stayed in bed, mostly, and she cried. Falcon and I took turns to make dinne

I looked at Kiran’s name flashing on the screen of my phone and answered it. It was still early and we’d been asleep.“Dad?” I answered my phone.“Kai, I need to see you urgently at the house,” Kiran said, sounding like himself again. It seemed so in contrast to the man I’d witnessed being helped the previous night at the funeral ceremony.“What’s wrong, Dad?” I asked him. I was worried because Kiran’s voice sounded worried. This family had been through hell the past couple of months, and we really didn’t need anything else going to shit right now.“Not over the phone,” Kiran said, and ended the call.Kari turned to look at me as I stood up. “Was that your dad?”“Yeah, he sounds weird. He said he needs to see me urgently at the house,” I said, as I started getting dressed.“Should I come with you?” she asked me.“Yeah,” I said. It was good that she wanted to get out of the house, but I was in a hurry and worried about what I would find once I got to the house.Kari dressed quickly, an

I’d taken a shower in my old bedroom and washed the blood away that had dried on my throat and chest. It felt surreal to look at it in the mirror, but as I wiped the fog from the glass surface, my mind was clear, and I knew exactly what I wanted to do.Kari and I had gone home and spent most of the night talking. It was like we were back in Fresno, those four months we’d spent together. We talked about Raven, and I told her everything that had happened. It was hard to confess how I’d cheated on her, but she had a right to know what I’d done.We talked about Paul, our baby, and our marriage. Everything spilled out into the open and after we’d cleared the air, we’d gone to bed, holding each other for the first time since we got married. The one thing we both agreed on was that we loved each other. We decided to turn a new page, to leave the past in the past, and focus on our future. We both wanted the same thing, and that was to be together.“Morning,” Kari said with a smile, as I start