He turned back to Wolf. “We can’t connect telepathically, but reading her emotions is becoming easier. What more do you need to know?”
Wait, there was a chance we could talk telepathically? Wow, I wasn’t sure how I felt about that.
Wolf stopped his pacing and turned to face us. “Here’s the thing, Cyn, when I
go in, I want Kayden in there as well.”
“And we’re all going to fit?” The inane question squeaked out before I could
stop it. Waving away whatever he planned on saying, I hurried to say, “Forget I
asked. Why?”
“Because I think his presence keeps the suggestions from sinking too deep.
Plus, when I go in, you’re going to have to use what you know, and the past is
going to seem very real to you. If you’ve trusted him to be your anchor before,
that relationship will help you to keep the past in the past.”
A chill ran over me. There were some things in my head I didn’t want to relive. “How real?”
Wolf’s gaze softened. “Unfortunately, pretty damn real.” He came over and
crouched in front of me. “Honestly, I’ll be as gentle as possible, but I don’t think untangling whatever was left behind is going to be easy.”
I stared into his face as Delacourt’s words from days ago slipped into my mind. “Every psychic pays a price for his ability. ” I didn’t really know Wolf, but the idea of putting him at risk didn’t sit well with me. No matter that my brain
kept chattering that to trust him was all wrong and too dangerous. Those instincts I trusted for years hummed this was our only chance at getting to Ellery
before he got to us. Still, I had to ask. “What does it do to you?”
His lips turned up, not quite a smile, but not quite a grimace either. “Nothing
I won’t be able to handle.”
Right, I forgot, you should never ask a male if he can handle it, he’ll never
say no. Pulling my hand free from Kayden, I wiped my palms along my thighs.
“Okay, let’s get this done. The quicker you get in, poke around, and find out what happened, the faster we can get back on track.”
Wolf didn’t stand up. Instead, he stayed in place, a very serious expression on his face. “No matter what happens, or what you think is happening, you have
to trust Kayden. If you do nothing else, you need to do this one thing. Deal?”
The ominous warning behind his words reverberated through me. I looked
over and met Kayden’s gaze. What stared back made me realize it wasn’t
trusting him I had problems with. It was trusting me.
I’m done running.
Time to prove it. I turned back to Wolf, I said, “Deal.”
“Good.” He went back to his chair.
For the first time, I reached out deliberately and sought his unique energy. It
didn’t take long to find it and draw it close. I dropped behind layers of mental
barriers, dragging him with me, and stopped just before one final wall. We didn’t have the time needed to get him behind that particular wall, but once this whole
situation was done, we could work on it. For now, we’d work around it. I held
both of us in place and the whispering chaos pulled back as if uncertain of what
was happening.
Tension I hadn’t been aware of, lifted, and back at the safe house, I sat a little
straighter. Something lightened in Kayden’s face and that warmth wrapped
closer, holding me close. Kayden laid an arm over the back of the couch, and I
settled against him.
