Chapter 127: The Trap Springs
LUCIEN POV
The mysterious barrier cracked like breaking glass around us.
I threw myself forward as chunks of invisible energy fell like dangerous rain. "Kael! Jaxon! Move now!"
My brothers didn’t need me to tell them twice. We raced toward the hole where Aria had disappeared with our dead father. The whole refuge was coming apart. Books flew through the air. Stone walls crashed down. Everything was chaos.
"She’s in trouble," I shouted over the noise. Through our bond, I could feel Aria’s fear mixed with determination. She was scared but trying to be strong. Just like always.
"I can’t reach her through the bond properly," Kael yelled back, jumping over a fallen bookshelf. "Something is blocking it."
That made my stomach drop. If Kael couldn’t use his Alpha connection to find her, we were in real trouble. My mending powers were strong, but they wouldn’t help us track anyone.
Jaxon grabbed my arm as another piece of the roof fell. "This way! I can smell her scent trail."
We followed him through the maze of destruction. My heart pounded so hard I thought it might burst. What if we were too late? What if Darius had already hurt her? What if the Shadow Lords had taken her?
Then I felt something that made me stop running.
"Wait," I said, putting up my hand. "Do you feel that?"