Semua Bab Fated to my One Night Stand: Bab 151 - Bab 160

~Amber’s POV~Of course it couldn’t have been that easy.I shouldn’t have been surprised, really. Whatever this thing was, it wasn’t going to be undone by Axel seeing it clearly enough that a thousand men could march out and end it by morning. That would have been too simple, and I already knew deep down nothing about this was going to be easy. But him coming back with nothing meant I was back to zero too. No answer. No idea. No shape to put to the thing that had turned my father and my best friend into strangers who didn’t recognize me.The only sensible thing left to do, the only thing, really was to bring it to the Council in the morning. Tell them everything. See if there was some corner of magic no one had thought to try yet, and pray to the moon goddess that nothing else came for us before we found it.“Asher is asleep,” Axel said from beside me, “but I’m fairly sure he can still hear you thinking in the dream world.”His voice cut through the spiral before it could pull me

~Amber’s POV~There wasn’t a need to ask, because I wouldn’t get an answer when I know that there was absolutely no one the question was directed at, but now, even more than the more than ever I needed before, I needed someone from those non-existent people I usually asked to materialize and shake me out of it.Or if not, I was still waiting for something to happen to show that this wasn’t just happening. That if I closed my eyes and opened them again, I’d be back in bed with him, and I wouldn’t have had to do the one thing that had shattered something in my chest I didn’t think could be put back together.I wouldn’t have had to fill a vial with silver, potent enough to do real damage, and empty it into him while he slept. I wouldn’t have had to call for Thomas and his most trusted warrior to carry him down here while I followed behind them like I was walking through someone else’s nightmare instead of my own life.I hadn’t slept at all. I had sat outside these bars all night, watch

~Amber’s POV~“I don’t need to tell you how bad this is, do I?”Of all the times Councilman Xander had earned the right to snap at me, to let every ounce of hostility I had grown used to from him finally boil over, this would have been the moment. Because I had fucked up. I had royally, catastrophically fucked up. And yet the question came out of him almost gentle, stripped of the usual edge, like even he understood there wasn’t room for pettiness in whatever this had become.I didn’t get the chance to answer. The screech of tires cutting hard against stone tore through the courtyard before I could form a single word, and the man responsible for driving that recklessly was already out of the car and closing the distance toward us. I knew, in some distant corner of my mind still functioning properly, that he was an Alpha — I could feel it radiating off him even from here, but with everything in my head this disordered, I couldn’t have told which pack, or pulled his name out of the wre

~Axel’s POV~“Should we wake him?”“And how exactly do you propose we do that? Tap him with your hands and say, ‘hey there, welcome back’?” A different voice answered, female, dry, something about it tugging at a recognition I couldn’t quite place through the fog still sitting thick behind my eyes. I tried to force them open, because right now all I could register was darkness, so surely they had to be closed. Right?And who, exactly, were the two voices doing all the talking?The first one picked up right where it left off. “You know, sometimes, Lolo, you really hurt my feelings with your words.”Weirdly, I recognized that voice too but still couldn’t place either of them. And still, infuriatingly, my eyes wouldn’t open.“I wouldn’t have to hurt your feelings if you didn’t ask stupid questions, Bob.”It clicked all at once.Bob? BOB?Whatever had dragged me back to this place had to be joking, because there was no version of reality where it made sense to bring me back to deal with

~Axel’s POV~I expected to be blasted with the entirety of the darkness, to feel it grip the whole of me at once, for there to at least be some kind of struggle, me fighting through it, clawing my way toward whatever reality I was supposed to exist in on the other side.But there was none of that.I simply walked in. Felt not even the slightest ripple against my skin. And in the very next second, there was only the quiet click of a door closing behind me, and I realized I was standing inside a room.A frown started forming on my face, deepening the moment my eyes scanned the space and landed on a little boy sitting in the corner, staring down at something in front of him. Before I could even ask myself what the hell was happening now, he shifted, and I saw exactly what he was looking at.Crows.Two of them, small and injured-looking, tucked into a little cage.They looked like how birds should look without any facial expression then his small voice cut through the confusion.“No, I t