Chapter 158

“If we can bring her back to you, we will, but you’re going to have to stay here,” she insisted.

“But it’s my mom,” Iain said, pacing madly across the shag carpeting while a misplaced smile touched his face like he was halfway crazed with the knowledge of what was going on. “It’s been just us practically my whole fucking life. God damn, shit fucking, sonuva—” SLAM. Iain’s curses broke off as he banged a fist angrily against the wall of the living room. “How can you tell me to stay calm? You don’t know what this is like.”

Nathan’s teeth clenched tight and he reached up to grab Sasha’s arm before the incubus could make any angry comments about the cumulative loss of mothers and fathers in the room. Sasha had been increasingly on edge since they arrived. Nathan could tell that Jim was also more fidgety than usual and he had to wonder if they could feel the dark resonance of the mine since it was only a few miles away.