Housebound with the Blackridge Heirs novel Chapter 127

Chapter 127

Chapter 127

Leo

“If you don’t stop tapping that glass, Caden, I’m going to break your hand.”

Tylon’s voice cut through the silence.

He didn’t look away from the road, his eyes fixed on the road. His knuckles were bone-white against the leather steering wheel, the SUV vibrating under the rocky road.

Caden didn’t stop. The tap-tap-tap of his claws against the window continued, a frantic, jagged rhythm that matched the wild gold flickering in his eyes.

“He has her,” Caden rasped, his voice sounding like it had been dragged through gravel. “Rohan had his hands on her. He touched what’s mine, Ty. And you’re telling me to sit still?”

“I’m telling you to be a man instead of a beast,” Tylon snapped, turning sharp and acidic with irritation. “If what Rohan says is true and you lunge the second we see her, you trigger the whatever spell has on her. You want to hold her, or do you want to bury her?”

Caden let out a broken, animalistic snarl and finally slammed his fist into the seat cushion. “I want to rip his heart out and feed it to him.”

I sat in the backseat, a ghost in the middle of their war.

I watched the back of Tylon’s head, stiff and unyielding, and then looked at Caden, who was a vibrating wire of violence.

They were fighting for their pride. They were fighting for the ‘claim.’

But I… I was the one who listened. I was the one who observed the things they were too blinded by their own shadows to see.

I looked out the window at the passing trees, but my mind was back in the Alpha House during the heat. I remembered the way Maya’s skin had almost glowed with that ethereal, terrifying light. I remembered the way she looked after we had all mated with her she was happy but she was evidently drained. And yes, any she wolf would be, but this was different.

I hadn’t wanted to see it then. I had wanted to believe it was just the intensity of the the triple bond. But as Rohan’s words echoed in my head, a sickening realization began to take root in my gut.

Was he right? Were we bad for her? I didn’t know about the others, but I felt stronger, faster, more connected than ever. But Maya… Maya was the one paying the price in blood and exhaustion.

“We’re close,” Tylon said.

“I can’t feel her,” Caden mumbled, spinning around in his seat to look at us. “The bond… it’s gone. It’s not just quiet. It’s cold. It feels like a dead nerve.”

I closed my eyes and reached inward. He was right.

Usually, the bond was a warm hum at the base of my brain, even when it wasn’t completed. Now, it was a void. It felt like standing on the edge of a cliff in total darkness. The closer we got to the coordinates Rohan left us, the more the connection withered.

It wasn’t just a dead zone. It was a severance.

“This place was designed to muzzle the Eclipse. Maybe… maybe she needs it, guys. Maybe she needs the silence to think.”

“Shut up, Leo,” Caden hissed, his teeth bared. “She needs us. She’s being held by a psychopath who wants to strip her of her wolf. We are going in there, and we are bringing her home.”

“At what cost?” I asked, looking him directly in the eyes. “If Rohan is telling the truth-if the Triple Bond is killing her-would you still force her to keep it?”

Caden flinched as if I’d struck him. Tylon’s hands tightened on the steering wheel until the leather creaked. Neither of them answered. They couldn’t.

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