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What’s Wrong?
Finn
I woke up feeling oddly empty. Almost as if something was wrong, but I didn’t know what because I went to sleep feeling content and incredibly happy for the first time since I was a child. Not that there were many of those times.
The change was drastic and terrified me.
I reached out for the ultimate source of my comfort and found the bed beside me empty.
I didn’t panic right away because we were at Rain’s cabin, so Isobel was home and there could be plenty of places for her to be outside of this bed with me where she belonged.
I opened my eyes and saw the bones from my dream catcher dangling from the ceiling. That explained why I’d slept so great, but it didn’t explain why I’d woken up feeling like this.
I got up feeling sick to my stomach. Something was definitely wrong here, but I still stupidly held out hope that everything was going to be okay.
I should have smacked myself right in the face for hoping because nothing good in my life ever lasted. I wasn’t one of those people who found happiness and had it last. I was cursed, or some shit like that.
I moved through the cabin looking for her. She wasn’t in the bathroom and when I checked the room next to hers I found Baxter sleeping peacefully with no Isobel in sight. The kitchen and the living room were both empty.
I had never ventured down the other hallway before and didn’t really want to now because I didn’t want to encroach on Rain’s space. I was trying to walk a careful line with him where I didn’t step on his toes. Right now he was tolerating me, but I knew he didn’t like me.
I didn’t want to be kicked out of the coven before I was really even let into it. That would be heartbreaking, to say the least.
The first room I checked had furniture in it but it seemed stale, almost as if it belonged to someone but they were never around to use it. It was probably Ariel’s room. Which seemed kind of ridiculous to me because she’d had a room at the house next to Quinton’s and a room at Romero’s when it had belonged to his son. And then there was her room at Quinton’s.
Jesus, did she need to live with everyone? I tried not to judge her but it was hard to be kind to someone when they hated your guts. But I was trying. Trying and failing.
I knocked quietly on the next door instead of just opening it up and peeking inside. I didn’t want to walk in on Isobel and Rain in bed together because I knew I wouldn’t be welcome to join them in Rain’s bed. If it was Isobel’s bed it might be different.
Rain whipped open the door with a severe frown on his face. His shoulder length dirty blond hair was messy and I’d clearly just woken him up. His bare chest was on display and he was only wearing sleep pants that rode low on his hips.
I kept my eyes locked on his green ones so I didn’t ogle his chest like a creep and make him uncomfortable. Or piss him off.
It was too early in the morning for a pissed off Rain to be on my hands.
“What’s wrong?” He immediately asked in a low, gravelly voice that did things to me I’d rather be tortured than admit out loud.
I cleared my throat before speaking. “Is Isobel in there with you? She wasn’t in bed when I woke up and I’ve checked the rest of the house and haven’t found her.”
His frown deepened and he pushed the bedroom door open the rest of the way.
The covers on the bed were messy but the person still sleeping in the bed was easily visible. His broad back was on display in all its pale splendor. His long red hair was fanned out all around him.
Fuck. If Romero was in Rain’s bed then where the hell was Isobel?
“God fucking dammit,” Rain growled as he pushed me out of the way with surprising gentleness. “Where the hell has that girl got off to now? Did you check the back patio?”
I shook my head in the negative because it honestly hadn’t even occurred to me to look outside for her yet. I had just hoped she’d been in Rain’s room with him.
I still stupidly held onto hope that she was here somewhere and now that Rain was up he would be able to find her.
“Wake up Romero, Finn.” Rain ordered in a voice that matched his gentle touch. “I’ll check outside and wake up Baxter to see if he heard her or she said anything to him.”
This was the nicest Rain had ever been to me and I didn’t know how to deal with it.
He headed off in one direction and I went into his bedroom.
