Chapter 24
Zach didn’t like what he saw. The chill air cut into his skin. It was painful—not because of the ice pieces in the wind, nor because of the eerie aura, but because of the emptiness in it. He knew Mya wasn’t there before he even searched for her. He was late, and it pained him to know she had gone before he got back.
“Where are you, Mya?” he asked the wind.
She had promised to wait for him in the Daimon Gate. Why didn’t she? He hadn’t known her for long. Hell, apart from knowing she was a woman with many secrets, he didn’t know her at all. He hadn’t expected her to wait here for him for the rest of her life. But he thought they had built something together that deserved a little bit of patience on her side.
Zach paced back and forth, searching the small cottage on the hillsid
