Kai reached out and took the note from Derek's shaking hand, his eyes scanning it fast, his jaw tightening with every line. Then, suddenly, He didn't even get to the end of it.
Kai.
Kai froze, and his head snapped up, his eyes darting across the courtyard.
Kai, please help me.
His stomach dropped straight through the ground.
"Jessica?" he said aloud, spinning in place, searching every face in the chaos around him. Nothing. No sign of her anywhere among the shaken crowd still pulling itself back together after the attack. "Shit!" he muttered.
"What's the matter?" Derek asked, brows raised, watching him turn in circles like a man losing his grip.
"Jessica." Kai's eyes swept the courtyard again, faster this time. "Jessica isn't sounding fine."
Jessica? Jessica, where are you? hecalled back through the link, his heart already hammering.
I don't know, came the answer, thinner now, barely holding together. It hurts, Kai.
