When They Needed Him Most He Vanished Novels & Stories

He looked at his hands. She waited. He'd always needed the full minute before the difficult things and she gave it to him the same way she always had. Completely. Without filling it. He exhaled slowly. "When I disappeared," he said. "It wasn't random. It wasn't connected to Briggs or Raymond or Victor or any of the things that were happening at the time." She went still. "Someone took me specifically," he said. "Not because of you directly. Not because of Damien." He looked at her. "Because of the research."

“An oracle. The only one who has seen the end of this path and lived to tell about it.” Richard stiffened. “You mean her? I thought she was gone.” He had gone searching for the oracle when he was in search of Aaron, but it was as if she had vanished into thin air. There was no sign or trace of her. He kept several men on the lookout for her, but it was almost like she didn’t exist to them. None of them remembered her, but then only their topmost leaders had access to her all these years. Why did she vanish when they needed her the most?

He knew me on my worst days and yet chose to be there. "I didn't betray you. I was real with both you and Hazel at that time but then something happened and everything turned upside down in my life." I turned my head back to the sky. "You were not there when I needed you most. You were supposed to be with me on their funeral." He whispered, his voice crackling a bit.

I raise my head to look at him, he is smiling, trying to make me feel like he knows something, yet I am in nowhere bothered. “No” “That's strange” he ran his hands through his hair and laughed, I could feel someone watching me but when I looked up there was nothing. “You were the last person he was with until he vanished into thin air, there is no way a person would be able to vanish like that unless someone like you had a hand in it”

“It’s not. But it could be your pay day.” His eyes narrow. “Who told you I needed money?” “No one. Do you need money? I have money.” I feel like I’ve just won a round in the boxing ring. He snorts. “Sure you do. Everyone has money until you tell them how much you need.” “How much do you need?” He doesn’t answer that. He just asks me another question. “If this guy is so important to you, why weren’t you with him?” “I was,” I admit. “We fought. I left. And then I got word his plane vanished. I don’t know if he’s hunkered down somewhere or—” I stop.

Stories said he was young, fierce, and unbeatable in battle, but had vanished five years ago during a conflict with the vampires. "But everyone said you—" "I vanished," he said. He removed his hand from my waist and laced our fingers together. "Five years ago, a specially engineered wolf toxin nearly destroyed me. It left me unstable and dangerous, so I went into hiding." He let out a low laugh, as if speaking of something trivial. "I was heading to the Northstone pack for business and asked the Royal Academy to give me a ride. I didn't expect to run into my fated mate along the way."

I feel a heavy weight inside me and I am completely worn out. “I’m sorry...” He brought my head to his arm, I felt his other hand rubbing my back. Everything came to mind all at once: all that we and my kids went through starting over four years ago, when he suddenly vanished just when we needed him the most. “C-Calix...” I called, hoarsely. My tears completely giving way and I cried. “Y-You... Y-You... h-had n.. n-no i...i-idea...”

That didn’t make sense. The last time I saw him, he was hurt, angry, and desperate. He had been barely holding himself together, yet somehow he had disappeared from the middle of the ocean before authorities arrived. Summer leaned closer to the screen. The color drained from her face. "Please tell me Mercer didn't send anyone on that operation." My throat tightened. Shame burned through me. If I told her the truth, I would have to admit I was there. I would have to admit that my ability was useless when I needed it the most, and I watched everything fall apart anyway.

Why did he feel this strange emptiness inside his chest? “Sir, we tracked her last known location, but she left there five years ago. She completely vanished. It’s like she never existed,” his assistant reported nervously. Kael’s jaw tightened. His hands clenched into fists. “Vanished?” he muttered, anger rising inside him. “How can a person just vanish? I want to know where she is! I want to know what she did with... with that thing!” He almost said 'our child', but the word tasted bitter in his mouth. Back then, he wanted it gone. He wanted it aborted. He was angry and arrogant. He wanted to prove he was in control.

“The business got bad, people I shouldn’t have trusted. Old story." My stomach tightened up. “I should’ve been there.” He glared at me. “Why weren’t you?” I hesitated. "I… I couldn’t call you. I didn't have a way to call you. Things got… complicated." "Complicated?" he said. “You vanished. No calls. No texts. Nothing. I thought you were dead.” "I'm sorry," I whispered. "I couldn’t tell you where I was. I wanted to. I just…"