Chapter 47
Rafe
My anger was getting the best of me. A rumbled rattled the room as I slammed my hands down on the table. “I will not leave her there any longer! Do you understand me?”
Micah winced at the octave of my voice and probably my Alpha order washing over the rest of the room. “Yes, but I don’t think this is the right time. If he has linked magic to draw you out, then we are playing right into his hands.”
A sense of urgency slammed into my chest. I couldn’t control it anymore. My eyes closed on their own accord.
Tracey rubbed my back for a moment before she spoke up. Ever since that night in the forest, she was different. She didn’t speak immediately but instead, observed the room. She wasn’t the bright, fun light we had all been used to either. Her enthusiasm was sucked away the night Jade was taken. The rest of her light was stolen when she was gifted her magic or it was awakened. We weren’t exactly sure what had happened that night in the woods.
Granny assumed the magic was always inside of her but it laid dormant. It was the poison spells that had awakened the magic to protect her. Either way, she wasn’t the same girl she was before. A part of me was sad about it, but I knew she had an interesting journey ahead of her and that was why she hadn’t been my second yet. I didn’t push for it because I knew she needed time. She needed to discover herself, and now, her magic.
“Rafe is right, regardless of his personal feelings clouding his judgment. We can’t allow her to go through unnecessary pain there. The children are free, we simply need to get in then get out. We can even tell the witches while we are there that the kids are free, I don’t know.” Tracey sighed. “But we have to do something. We have to at least try.”
Micah gritted his teeth together before his shoulders slumped in defeat. “Fine, but you aren’t going to go in there to get her. We stick to the original plan. Rafe, you have to stay here.”
