Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

Chapter 18

I wait as patiently as I can for Lenora to finish giving Kas a hug.She finally lets her go and kisses her on the cheek.

"I mean it.No more scaring me," she wags her finger at Kas.

"I promise, Lenora.No more scaring you,"

Kas smiles back with a nod before turning to me.She takes her hand out of mine and brushes her fingers on the side of my face.

"All I want to do is pull you into my lap and hold you all night, Baby, but I need you to tell us about your vision before you forget.Can you do that?"

"Yeah b-but," she looks at me with watery eyes, "Can you tell me if James is okay? Was that real or part of my vision?"

"It was real, Kas.Don’t worry, he’ll recover.We can take you to the hospital wing to see him tomorrow.Okay?"

Lenora squeezes her hand in reassurance.

Kas nods, looking at her hands for a moment.She collects herself so she can concentrate.

When she’s ready, she takes a ragged breath and tells us about what she saw.

"I thinkI saw some of the people who kidnapped me.There was a woman that looked just like Lenora, but maybe she was a little older? Or something about her seemed old, even though she looked young.She knew my name.She called me Iokaste.There was also a woman with dreadlocks and red eyes.She mind linked me, but it wasn't a real mind link I could actually see her words in my mind."

Kas squeezes her eyes closed for a minute, then opens her eyes and looks at the nightstand.She grabs her journal and pen and scribbles something down on a page.

‘Eisai dynatés.Empistéfsou ta énstikta sou"

"That’s what I saw," Lenora and I trade a confused look.

Kas has never remembered this much detail from a vision before, and this message in a foreign language is pretty specific.She only knows the little bit of Spanish that Marco has taught her.

"Looks like Greek.I will see if Musu can translate it,"

Lenora takes a picture of the page with her phone and sends it to Musu.

like it usually is.It seems like it was a past life, but not one I already knew about.I was fighting alongside the woman with red eyes in an intense war.We knew each other, and she sacrificed herself for me, Bronx.She threw herself at charging werewolves.I could feel her connection

if she tries to finish, it

of her hand over her sternum while she talks.Her eyes aren't really fixed on any one point in

bond?" I ask as gently as possible, but in reality, I’m feeling a tinge of jealousy that

if it was in a

not like a mate bond.It was more like something connected our essences to each other," her voice is soft, "She said something else in that

What did she say?" Lenora asks,

huge burst of energy come out of my body.I felt like a bomb was exploding out of me.And when I looked around, everything was...well, it was all gone.As far as

me in

floodgates are

together long enough to tell us about her vision, but now she needs my support.I pull her into my lap

arms around her, she begins

her sobs, she says she didn’t mean to hurt James.She

We all know that.

accident, but we can figure out how it

isn’t the Kas who has become stronger every day since she came to

and leader

up not being able

all wish never existed.I know it

who she is, but if there is anything I can do to keep

it wasn’t for our mate bond, how would she handle a situation like

hear Lenora's cell

at it and

"Is that Musu?"

your instincts'," she says with a knit brow as she looks at me rocking my sobbing little

shrug my shoulders, and she

kissing the top of her head

me, just send a mind link.I'll be back in a

I mouth the words and watch her leave.I turn my attention back to Kas, thinking about the

else has as much faith in her as I do.I just have to figure out who this

pulls away from

"What's wrong, Baby?"