Remi

When I pull into the cirular driveway of the giant white brick mansion; there's cars here that shouldn't be. We turn left and drive to the gardens of the old shifter compound. Only stopping once Payne can longer take being confined. Sobs ravage my body again. The pain of my heart and body overtaking everything.

Nothing matters. I don't matter. That realization has Payne acting out if full force. I double over in agony hitting the horn of the truck. With the blaring of the horn males coming running around the house and surround my truck. I open my door and spill out onto the pebbled walkway of the garden.

Sharp tiny rocks drive into my palms and knees. I struggle to right myself as my father comes barreling through the crowd. As he pushes and shoves his way through the crowd with my brother hot on his heels; I crawl away as fast as I can.

"Remi, sweetheart...." My father's worried shouts sound more like whispers. Blaze and my father are on either side of me. Gunner keeps the securit