His Moonsilver Mate (Abby and Kade) novel Chapter 18

Chapter 18

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1:07 pm

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Voices drifted through the darkness.

Sometimes close.

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Sometimes so far away I could barely tell they were real.

I tried to follow them.

A man speaking quietly.

Another voice answering.

Then silence again.

I couldn’t open my eyes.

I wasn’t sure I had eyes.

My body felt distant, buried somewhere beneath layers of warmth and pain.

For one terrible moment, I thought I was still in the cave.

My heart began to race.

The cuffs.

The needle.

The rogue.

I tried to move my hands.

Pain flared around my wrists, but there was no silver.

No metal cutting into my skin.

Something soft lay beneath me.

A bed.

I forced myself to breathe.

Diana?

Nothing.

Fear tightened around my chest.

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Diana.

A faint stirring answered.

Abby.

Relief washed through me.

Where are we?

Her voice was weak.

Safe.

I wanted to believe her.

How do you know?

A long pause.

Then:

Liam.

A voice reached me again.

This time I recognized it.

“…wake up when you’re ready, little one.”

Liam.

My chest hurt.

I tried to answer.

Nothing happened.

I couldn’t open my mouth.

Couldn’t lift my hand.

But he was here.

He had found me.

He came.

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Of course.

Diana sounded tired, but there was the faintest edge of reproach in her voice.

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As if I had been foolish to doubt him.

Maybe I had.

Another voice came later.

Lower.

Rougher.

Kade.

I couldn’t understand everything he said.

Only pieces.

“I’m here.”

hot asking you…”

“…stay.”

Then his hand closed around mine.

I knew it was him.

I didn’t know how.

The bond was gone.

There should have been nothing.

But some part of me recognized the warmth of his palm before my mind did.

Diana stirred.

Knox.

The name moved through her weakly.

I tried to reach toward whatever she felt.

There was nothing clear.

Only warmth.

Something distant and familiar beyond the darkness.

Then exhaustion pulled me under again.

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When I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was white.

White ceiling.

White walls.

A thin curtain beside the bed.

For several seconds, I stared without understanding.

Then pain returned.

My wrists.

My head.

My throat.

My entire body felt as though I had run for days without stopping.

I tried to move.

A chair scraped beside me.

“Abby?”

Liam.

I turned my head.

He was beside the bed before I fully focused on him.

His hair was a mess. Dark shadows surrounded his eyes, and there was a bruise along one side of his jaw that I didn’t remember seeing before.

He looked terrible.

I had never been happier to see anyone.

“Liam.”

Barely a sound came out.

His face crumpled.

“Hey.”

He took my hand carefully.

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“Hey, little one.”

Tears filled my eyes.

“You found me.”

His fingers tightened around mine.

“Always.”

A sob rose in my throat.

He leaned over and pressed his forehead against mine.

“I’m sorry.”

I closed my eyes.

“For what?”

“For not being there.”

“You didn’t know.”

“I should have.”

“No.”

The word hurt my throat.

“Don’t.”

He swallowed hard.

Then another movement caught my attention.

Kade stood near the window.

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I hadn’t noticed him at first.

He looked almost as bad as Liam.

His shirt was wrinkled. Stubble shadowed his jaw. His eyes were fixed on me with an intensity that made my stomach tighten.

He didn’t come closer.

“Hi,” I whispered.

Something broke across his face.

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“Hi.”

Diana stirred weakly.

Knox.

I felt that strange warmth again.

Not the old bond.

Nothing like the certainty I had felt when we first recognized each other.

This was quieter.

One-sided.

A door left open somewhere far away.

I frowned.

Before I could think about it, the door opened.

Daphne walked in carrying a chart.

She stopped when she saw my eyes open.

“Well.”

A smile softened her face.

“There you are.”

Liam let out a shaky laugh.

Kade closed his eyes briefly.

Daphne came to the bed.

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“How do you feel?”

“Like I got hit by a truck.”

“That’s surprisingly accurate for someone who spent the last two days drugged and tied up.”

Two days.

My stomach dropped.

“How long was I gone?”

“Just over two days from the time you left the clinic.”

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Hooked at Liam.

His expression told me exactly what those two days had done to him.

“I’m sorry.”

“No.”

He leaned closer.

“You do not apologize for being kidnapped.”

Daphne gave him an approving glance.

“Your brother is right for once.”

Liam almost smiled.

She checked the monitor beside me, then took my temperature.

“Your fever is coming down.”

“What happened?”