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“She’s been so focused on finding you,” I said hotly. “It’s all she cares about right now, finding you has consumed her. If she knew this whole time that you’ve been blocking her, it’s going to fucking crush her. Goddamn you.”
His eyes lost a little bit of that coldness as they searched my face. There was something working in there, he was trying to figure me out. I didn’t want him to know anything else about me.
“Why exactly is she looking for me?” He asked in a quiet, careful voice. “In all these years, she’s never…”
“Why in the fuck do you think?” I growled at him. He opened his mouth to speak, but I was on a roll so I kept on going with it. This motherfucker needed to know. “She found a box of letters and photographs that abusive bitch Vivian had. It was all about you, man. She’s been obsessed with finding you ever since. And there’s no stopping her once she goes off on something. So, she’s been all about you for a while now. And you’re fucking hiding from her. That’s just great. She would have been better off had she never known you existed in the first place. Son of a bitch.”
I paused to suck in a shaky breath. Christ, she could never know, it would kill her.
Rain’s eyes had gone wide and he looked like he’d stopped breathing.
“Abusive,” he ground out in a voice full of gravel.
Shit. That cut him up.
Heat infused his dead eyes and his voice was filled with horror as he repeated on a tortured whisper, “Abusive.”
Oh, fuck him.
At least he hadn’t had to witness it.
“Yeah,” I snarled at him, not giving the first fuck that he flinched. “Vivian was abusive, and even I have no idea how bad it was for her. She keeps that shit locked up tight, and she doesn’t like to talk about it. Not to mention she thought that woman was her mother. She didn’t even know you existed until she found that box of letters. Those little discoveries really did a number on her. Now she’s all fucked up more than usual. And she was pretty fucked up to begin with.”
I was breathing heavy when I stopped speaking, and my hands were shaking with my anger. Just thinking about what she’d gone through was enough to upset me, talking about it pissed me off even more. I dropped my arms and clenched my fists, pressing them into the sides of my thighs.
I didn’t know why I was being a dick to Rain when none of those things were his fault, but I couldn’t seem to help myself. I needed someone to point my finger at in blame, and that bitch of a woman was dead, there was no satisfaction in throwing my anger in her direction. That left Rain. I couldn’t say I was sorry. Yet.
“I didn’t know,” Rain whispered.
I believed him. Still, I shook my head.
“My poor baby. My poor, poor baby. I never dreamed…”
I glared at him. She wasn’t his baby, she was mine.
“Listen, buddy-”
“Where is she right now? Is she at the house next to Marcus’?” Rain demanded to know. “I will come to her.”
Again, I shook my head, this time sadly. “I thought you were avoiding her?” I asked in an amused voice. Better amused than angry. “Two minutes ago, you didn’t want anything to do with her, and now you’re singing a different tune. I don’t think so.”
He took a step towards me and pointed a finger at me. Menace and rage poured off of him in a wave of angry, scalding heat.
It slithered across my skin, burning, leaving little blisters in its wake. I stumbled back, further away from him, and he took another step towards me. In this mood, with him wielding magic like a fucking pro, I didn’t want him to come any closer to me.
Dream walking wasn’t the only skill Rain Kimber had in his arsenal. Damn. My eyebrows felt singed, and I wondered if the blisters would still be there when I opened my eyes in the real world.
“I never said I didn’t want to see my daughter. Don’t put words in my mouth,” he snarled at me. “She’s everything to me, of course I want to fucking see her. In case you missed it, asshole, the Council is close by, sniffing around her, and I had to be sure she wasn’t contacting me on their behalf. I have no desire to have any dealings with any of those people. They don’t like my kind overly much, and my family has managed to stay off their radar since the trials.”
A slight throbbing started between my eyes, the heat wave he’d thrown my way had given me a headache along with the blisters and singed brows.
The gray fog started to fade to black.
Shit.
Someone or something on the other side was trying to wake one of us up.
We were running out of time.
