Chapter 26
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
MIKO
What. A. Prick.
Me. No one else. The moment I unleashed on Orion, and on Cate, I regretted it. But the floodgates were kicked down, every piece of rage and anguish bursting forth to hurt, to sweep away any hope of ever exploring the bond.
Because it was impossible.
“Bollocks.” I stormed across my flat, flinging open the balcony doors to feel the cold on my face. “Why me?”
Damn, it hurt knowing I frightened him, threw this information at him without one care for his feelings. I did care. Of course I did. I might behave like a monster, but I wasn’t one.
Wishing things were different only fucked me off, along with Lance’s face. This deal, the threat, the shitstorm to come. Everything threw punches at me, landing the hardest blows, not letting me breathe or fight back. No chance for a counter strike, to think, to do anything.
I sucked in the death-laced night air, the smell of rain tinged with cherries.
Orion… He was on the next floor down. I always smelled him, the tasty aroma a constant presence in the tower now.
“I’m sorry. I’m so fucking sorry.”
Him hating me was better in the long run.
Orion stepped off his balcony.
“What the fuck?”
I leaned over my balcony to be sure I wasn’t hallucinating. The fae floated over the fences, landing next to a biter. He took it down before running west.
On instinct, I went to go after him and stopped at the door.
Let him go…
This is for the best…