Chapter 47

Bowden

The moment I step into the hallway of the guards’ quarters, I know the cat’s out of the bag, and we’re not stuffing that mangy feline back in there. The hall is crawling with curious Lycans while Elias is standing in his room letting out soft little mewls of terror.

The empty sarcophagus lies on the floor, Jaeger is missing, and Julius is standing on the bed, rising up like a ghost no one wants to see.

“Kaiya,” I mind link with my mate on pure instinct alone. “Are you still awake?”

“Kinda. What’s wrong?”

“I need you to come down to Elias’s room. We have…a situation.”

“What kind of situation?”

“Ehhhh.” I stare up at the risen figure. The corpse’s head is still covered with the sheet, but he’s standing on the bed and blindly reaching out with his shrivelled, mottled black-grey arms. “I’m not quite sure how to explain this. Just come down, and…prepare yourself.”

“Whu- Whu?” Elias whimpers behind me.

I’d tell someone to get him out of here, but everyone’s having a pretty similar re