CHAPTER SIXTEEN

MAVERICK

I shouldn’t have been so happy that she requested to spend some time with me, even if just to gain more information about the missing people. She couldn’t stand my presence, while simply being in her presence made my mind fracture and reset all at the same time.

The news about her family’s missing Shadow worried me, because Shadows were incredibly loyal, and were usually under an oath. They wouldn’t just disappear unless they were killed, or they were intercepted by a powerful force. Once or twice, I’d seen the young woman watching them from a distance as most of her kind did. Even if we’d never traded words before, it still felt like there was an unspoken familiarity between us.

Although I had offered to take Orla with me, she insisted that her driver must be the one to take her to my place. I could have thrown her over my shoulder regardless, but that wouldn’t have done me any good.

When we got to my house, I got out of the car and waited for Orla’s vehicle to come to a sto