13. The Rogue
BRAX
I couldn’t sleep. The others didn’t understand, but I felt too much of what my mate was feeling, and it meant closing my eyes was filled with pain and nightmares. She was in pain, and there was nothing I could do.
My shadows couldn’t get to her; she was blocked by something. They still felt hers, locked inside her, screaming to get out. But they couldn’t, and I had to endure it.
It was worse for Zale and Enzi; they were powerful and had no idea how to harness the power they had been given—not fully, anyway—and they knew something was wrong with their shadows.
They looked for her, even for Kai, searching with their shadows but meeting the same wall inside her as I was. She was purposely keeping us out so the pain wouldn’t hit us as harshly. I appreciated that idea
