Page 115 of Bound by Vengeance
Vicky was about to say something more whenNathan’s strange, scattered thoughts skittered across her mind,jolting her. She leapt to her feet, prepared to attack something,but froze when she saw Nathan and Kadence hugging each other.
There was no threat, but why were histhoughts so chaotic? And why was Ronan gazing around the diningarea as if he were about to tear the heads from everyonewithin?
Nathan’s arms clinched around Kadence when,the second they touched, images burst through his mind so fast hecouldn’t grasp any of them. And then, he felt time slowing for himas it had so many times over the years. He could almost feel theinfinite tunnel of space spreading around him while the imagesgradually coalesced into scenes.
When Nathan looked around him now, he foundhimself standing with Kadence in the center of a dozen brokenbodies littering the ground. Bodies with the familiar faces of thehunters who had split off from him to go their own way. Carnagesurrounded them, but most of those who’d left were missing from thescene.
Then, the images shifted, and this timestars swirled around them before Joseph filled the picture. Josephstood outside the circle of the bodies, smiling as he surveyed thedestruction with a couple of hundred Savages flanking him.
Hatred boiled through Nathan while he gazedat the face he loathed. His time with Vicky had made him realizethere was more to life than death and fighting, but hewouldmake sure Joseph died.
Then, the scene faded away and the noise ofthe dining room crashed into Nathan’s ears again. He releasedKadence and inhaled a shaky breath as he struggled to assimilatewhat he’d seen with the world around him.
Ronan’s eyes glistened the color of rubiesas he gazed between the two of them. Nathan turned to find Vickystalking toward him, her eyes also a vibrant red. Aiden, Maggie,and Abby stepped out of her way but fell in beside her when shewalked by them.
“What was that?” Nathan asked Kadence.
“That was the pathways,” she whispered asshe pushed back a strand of her silvery hair. “But normally thepictures come so fast I can’t grasp them. I started glimpsing someof this vision last week, but all I could absorb were feetscattered across a blood-soaked ground, and I never saw Joseph,until now. Somehow, you slowed the vision down and made it possiblefor me to see more of it.”
“Time has a way of slowing for me,” hemurmured.
“What?” she asked.
Nathan glanced around the crowded roombefore jerking his head toward the door. He reclaimed Vicky’s handwhen she stepped beside him. When she gave him a questioning look,he squeezed her hand reassuringly.
“We need to talk,” he said to Kadence.
• • •
Ronan, Lucien, Killean, Saxon, Declan,Kadence, Brian, Abby, Maggie, and Aiden gathered in the librarywith him, Vicky, Logan, Asher, Elfry, and Roland.
“Time has always had this weird way ofslowing for me,” Nathan said as he paced from one end of thepinewood floor to the other. “It doesn’t happen often, and I’venever mentioned it to anyone, and it usually occurs when I’m inbattle, but not always. During my transformation, I had this weirdexperience of being in some kind of tunnel as time slowed enough toreveal our stars and planets to me, along with galaxies and worldsbeyond ours.”
“Was that the tunnel in my vision today?”Kadence asked. “Because I’ve never seen anything like itbefore.”
“Yes,” Nathan replied.
“How is this possible?” Aiden asked.
“I was able to locate things occasionallybefore I turned,” Brian said. “Becoming a vampire amped up myability. Years of practice has honed it.”
“So they were both born with something thatintensified when they became a vampire?” Saxon asked.
“Sounds like it,” Brian said.
“So what does that mean?” Lucieninquired.
“They’re like yin and yang to each other,”Vicky said as she gazed between the fraternal twins with dawningrealization. “They can experience their ability on their own, butit works so much better when they’re together. Kadence’s ability isuseful but also sounds frustrating.”
“It is,” Kadence confirmed.
“And Nathan’s ability helps him in a fight,it’s sporadic, but you don’t make it sound frustrating.”
“It’s not,” he said.
“Different but similar,” Vicky murmured.“Male and female. Too fast and too slow. Opposites, but together,they work. They knew they were different before their transition,but their powers were unlocked further when their DNA twisted intosomething new, like Brian’s. And being twins… well, you don’t haveto be a twin to know there’s a special bond between them.”
She glanced at Abby who grinned at her.
