Page 78 of Her Silent Knight

“So, he did marry that bitch?”

Sin nodded. Last month. She couldn’t tell her friend that or she’d want to know how Sin knew that he married her stepmom last month.

“Did they even look for me?” Lee shouted.

“Like I told you, there was a letter.”

“Hannah used magic to write it. That had to be it. Because I didn’t leave a letter. Like I just told you, she found out I was dating Nachik.”

“That’s where I heard his name. It was in the letter. The letter said you ran off with a guy from the reservation.”

“That bitch found out I was dating Nachik. She told me to stop seeing him. I told her I couldn’t because I was his mate. She had a fit. That night, I went to see Nachik and told him about Hannah. Turns out, Hannah was dating a guy from the reservation.”

“That’s why she didn’t want you dating Nachik. She didn’t want to be found out. That bitch. And I believed her tears when she acted like she really missed you.”

“That bitch tied a fucking magic rope around me and Nachik, blocking our ability to use our powers.”

“What is Nachik?”

Lee shrugged. “We don’t know. He was adopted at five months old by a family on the reservation who found him in the woods.”

“The wolf shifters?”

Lee nodded. “His eyes glow a light orange color when he’s mad and when there’s a full moon, but he’s never shifted before. He’s strong and fast. Yet, no one knows what he is.”

Sin wanted to see him. She was good at figuring things like this out. However, she didn’t want to ask, especially since she’d overheard about his condition.

“He’d seen Hannah many times on the reservation. She also worked at the casino his adopted family owned. So, when I said her name, he immediately asked if I was talking about the dark-skinned witch with the long braids and the tattoo of a raven on her wrist.”

“That’s Hannah.”

“Right. When I learned she was seeing one of the guys at the reservation, I was pissed. I rushed home to tell my dad. I even brought Nachik with me. Dad wasn’t home. But Hannah was.”

“Shit.”

“She saw the two of us together and the expressions on our faces and she knew something was up. She used her powers against me. Fresh out of Guardian Trials, I thought I could take her. I was wrong. When I woke up, Nachik and I were tied up and we were being unloaded off the back of a truck. I was barely scratched up, but Nach was covered in bruises. So was Hannah.”

“Damn. What happened while you were out?”

“I heard Hannah tell the two guys who were helping her, that she managed to drug us. But that the boy was strong and she had no idea what he was, but that they shouldn’t take their eyes off of him.”

That only made her more curious about what Lee’s mate was.

“The men took us into the woods. Deep in the woods. I don’t even know if we were still in Mississippi. The tossed us on the ground and left. Then a woman came out, covered in mud, with markings all over her face and body and she started chanting.”

“This sounds like root magic.”

“It felt dark. Suddenly I felt cold. I had never felt that cold before. I could hear rushing water.”

This sounded similar to what she’d felt when she was brought here.

“Suddenly everything went black. When I woke up again, Nach was fighting off cannibals and I was being drug away by a teenage girl.”

“A cannibal?”

Lee nodded. “My first kill.” A tear dripped down her cheek. “I hadn’t wanted to. But she tried...”

“Stop. I know. Trust me, I know.”