Tempest of Emotion

by Allegra B

Two Psy, both devastatingly powerful, both courted by madness in their own unique ways – and both bound by different kinds of loyalty to their race. Yet fate throws them into a tempest of emotion that might not only destroy them both but take the whole world down with them. Alternative story for Kaleb (x OC). Set after the events of "Tangle of Need".

17. Chapter 17

Chapter 17

One day later Judd Lauren, defected Arrow and mate to a beautiful wolf changeling named Brenna Kincaid sat at the breakfast table when his untraceable cellphone beeped.

"What is it baby?" Brenna asked from the kitchen area, knowing the ringtone usually meant something important with the Psy rebellion was going on.

"I don't know. I just received the strangest request from the Ghost. He inquired after Alice Eldrige, asked if it was possible to talk to her." Alice the human scientist who had studied Psy designations before she'd been cryogenically conserved almost a hundred years ago – until the Ghost had found her and handed her to his fellow rebel.

"Now why would he want to do that?" Brenna had come around the counter at the first mention of the Ghost. Judd still kept his cool outwardly most of the time, but she'd learned to read it when there was trouble in his eyes. And recently she'd seen sorrow in them whenever his fellow rebel was mentioned. Now she leaned over his sitting figure to hug her mate from behind, giving him the comfort he'd never ask for.

"I have no idea. Something unexpected must have happened. He'd never have handed her to me if he'd known he'd need her again." His voice was cool but he leaned into her touch in a way that was anything but.

"So he just wants to speak to her and gives you no more information?"

"He never gives away more than absolutely necessary, but that doesn't mean he's double crossing us. He's just very careful whom he trusts."

"Careful? You've been working with him for years. That guy takes being paranoid to the extreme."

"Growing up in the PsyNet does that to you." Deep lines on his forehead as he furrowed his brow in thought.

"There's more. You're worried. You think something is wrong with him." Not breaking skin to skin contact she came around to settle into his lap.

"A lot of things are wrong with the Ghost. And some of them might affect all of us."

"Then we'll get through it. We're strong enough because we are part of a pack. You are part of a pack now. Don't you ever forget that!"

No, he'd never be as lonely and desolate as the Ghost. Even if at times it still took a reminder from the woman who was his heartbeat to make him realize exactly how much he'd won by giving up Silence. "I won't."

The slow smile that accompanied his short answer and the kiss that followed made her fall for him all over again.