32. Rafe
32
Rafe
O ne minute I was talking with Evelyn as we walked back to the mansion, and the next, she just vanished into thin air.
The others, who had been walking ahead, stopped and turned as if they could no longer sense her presence.
“Where’s Evelyn?” Lucien demanded, his voice sharp with concern.
“She just vanished,” I replied, still in shock.
“What do you mean vanished?” Chad asked, coming to stand beside me.
“I mean she just disappeared. One minute we were talking, and the next, she was gone,” I said, my panic rising. “I can’t feel her anymore. I’m her guardian angel—we’re connected, and now I can’t feel her.”
In a blur of movement, Alister was suddenly beside us.
“Where is she?” he asked, his monster out, eyes glowing with fury.
“I don’t know,” I said, trying to steady my racing thoughts.
Chad shifted nervously from foot to foot, his usual exuberance replaced by a tense energy. “Could she have teleported? Maybe it’s a new power?”
“That’s a possibility.” I fiddled with the back of my ear. “Or it could be Morgana.”
I closed my eyes, trying to reach out with my angelic senses, searching for any trace of Evelyn’s unique energy signature.
Nothing. It was as if she’d been wiped from the face of the earth.
“So?” Lucien asked, impatient.
“I can’t sense her at all. It’s like she’s…nowhere.”
Lucien’s expression tightened, panic washing over his features as his usual calm completely shattered. “We can’t waste any time. We need to find her.”
“Agreed,” Ryker said, his voice a low growl.
I clenched my jaw. “How do you plan to do that?”
They looked at me as if I should have a solution.
“I don’t think she’s on this plane of existence anymore,” I explained, my heart pounding in my chest.
The fear of losing Evelyn was overwhelming.
Where was she?