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.

was the past.Not the future, 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,

she tries to

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

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

was

each other," her voice is soft, "She said something else in that

was someone special to you? What did she say?" Lenora asks, smoothing Kas’s partially

hurt so bad.It made me have this 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 I could see, everyone and everything was destroyed.Burned and flattened.I think it was because of the energy that came out of me.I don’t know.I-I just

me in

floodgates are about

but now she needs my support.I pull her into

soon as I fold my arms around her, she

says she didn’t mean to

We all know that.

an accident, but we can figure out how it happened

Kas who has become stronger every day since she

and leader that everyone

nineteen- year-old girl, who grew up not being able to trust anyone around her.She

wish never

of who she is, but if there is anything I can do to keep it at bay, I will do

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

hear Lenora's

looks down at

"Is that Musu?"

words are Greek.It means ‘You are strong.Trust your instincts'," she says with

shrug my shoulders, and she

last sympathetic look before kissing the top of her head and kissing my

me, just send a

mouth the words and watch her leave.I turn my attention back to

I do.I just have to figure out who

Kas has calmed down, she pulls away from me slightly and gives me

"What's wrong, Baby?"