132. Kaya
Kaya
I watched Cade's lips move as he talked to our daughter. He would make her alpha, and I couldn't help but smile. I hoped he would see reason, and the second he saw her, he knew she would take over. It made me so happy to know he was not stuck in his ways. I couldn't believe that this was all happening. There was so much wrong like with Howi but here in this moment, everything was good.
Robert came up to me. "Kaya, we really need to go." I nodded at him. "How are you feeling? How is the wound?" I had to patch him up when I came back. The Goddess had given me the supplies, but he was still not in great condition. He had not really slept other than on the sled. I couldn't be more appreciative of him. The Goddess had blessed him, too. By all accounts, he should have been dead. I mean, he had been drugged much more than I was. Then shoved out of a plane and crashed into loose snow and then sat in the tundra for several days without medicine.
I would forever be in his debt for watching after Sol. He had gone above and beyond to keep my family safe, and something like that does not go unappreciated. I would need to do something for him. Not now; obviously, there was too much that needed to be done. But when everything was all over, he deserved something. I didn't know what, but something. Cade gave Sol back to me. I secured her in the baby board and pulled it onto my back.
"So good you have a sled. Ours only fits two, which is tight with all this gear." I mind-linked him. "I stole it from Crescent Moon Pack." I smiled at him. "So they are okay, and Howi did not find them." Cade looked stressed. There were deep black circles under his eyes. "I don't know." I had Kimi try to mind link Nieva, and no one responded. No one was at the pack lands either. There was no sign of a struggle or anything. It was like they just vanished."
I stared at him as he mind linked with me. I needed clarification. That made no sense. I had no idea where they could have gone. And if they had left of their own volition then I should be able to mind link them. I tried to find Nieva over the link, but I couldn't. It was like there was a barrier. If it had been silver and they were taken, then there should have been signs of that at the pack lands. "Come on, let's get back there, and we can decide what to do from there." I mind-linked Cade.
"How will you know how to get there? I have been out here for days and have had no idea where I was going." I pointed to my nose. I knew my way around just by the smell of the landscape. "We will be there in a day." I mind-linked him. He moved onto the sled with me, and Robert took the one Cade had used. All three of us took off, with me leading the way. There was a lot we needed to discuss. I needed to tell Cade what the Goddess had said. I needed to tell him about my encounter with Howi. I figured all that could wait until we were safe.
Being out here in the North was still dangerous. Howi was still out there. The last time I saw him, he was flying over the North. Flying low, hoping to see any life so he could take us all out. I knew why he hated us. I knew why he wanted the North to die and anyone who promoted that kind of life close to the Goddess. It was out of hatred for women. He hated the mate bond. He hated that he was overlooked, and he needed to be stopped.
The Goddess had told me to stop him, and I planned to. When we stopped for the night after feeding Sol, I tended to Roberts's wounds. Cade watched as I removed the bandages, replaced them, and put on a salve. He was going to be alright. The salve was mostly clearing up the infection. When I first dressed the wound, it had a smell and some oozing stuff coming out of it. I had to clean it and do the best I could. But our fast healing was healing the wound nicely as the salve seemed to also be aiding him. If I had to guess, he would be okay in less than a week. But it had been a silver bullet and had caused a lot of damage. He was lucky it went straight through and had not gotten embedded in his arm. I would have had to dig out the silver to keep him alive. That or he would have died.
I didn't know why Howi had let him live. I knew he wanted me to suffer seeing Robert Die. He would have had I not gotten him to shelter, or the Goddess had not provided the salve. He, like me, was lucky to be alive. I think all of us were. I looked at Cade, who was holding Sol. I wanted to know why I had found him lying in the snow. I mean, I knew he said he was looking for our daughter, but that did not explain why he was passed out on the frozen ground.
I finished up with Robert and went to sit next to Cade, who was snuggled close to the fire we built. I leaned into him. "Cade." I mind-linked. "Why were you on the ground when we found you." He turned his head to look at me. "I was, I don't know, just so run through. You had died. My pack was missing. I was sure Sol would die too without you there to feed her, even if I had found her. I just couldn't go on. It didn't help that I had not eaten, drank, or slept for days." He mind linked me.
I nodded in understanding. Had I been in his position, I would have been the same. I still couldn't believe everything had happened like it had. It was a blessing all of us were okay. We just needed to form a plan. Maybe that wouldn't work though all our plans had gone to shit anyways. Perhaps we needed to just face things as they come and dam the plans.
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