Bloodhounds

Chapter fifteen

We all shot into action.

I wasn't sure that I had moved that fast in my whole life because before I knew it the seven of us were on our horse and racing through the streets of the capital. The streets were almost empty which made it easy for us to slip through the buildings.

"Can you track him, Lilith?" Gabriel called over his shoulder.

I nodded, but I wasn't sure. I didn't have anything of his, but I hoped that I could track him because I knew him.

I tried to clear my mind, but it was running as fast as Skah. I was tripping over my thoughts about how I had fallen right into Beauden's trap and had most likely gotten someone else taken. This was my fault and I could tell that I was never going to live it down.

Beau had distracted me and had knew that Kai would get pissed after hearing how our conversation went, because I could guarantee that Beauden knew that Kai hated him. He knew that me talking to him would piss Kai off because the dark Prince had seen our kiss and even though we had been doing it so that Mal could grab the bird, Beau still used it against us.

He had used it against me and I was fuming.

"Lilith?" Gabriel snapped, snapping my thoughts away from my anger and to the task at hand.

"Yeah, yeah." I replied and attempted to clear my mind again. I imagined Kai's face, his pale skin and green eyes. I imagined his scent, the glassy, warm scent that would always wrap around me when he was near. My thoughts skimmed over the kiss, the short and sweet kiss that was probably the most innocent kiss I had ever shared with anyone.

I felt it then and smelt it, I felt his energy, the anxiety that he was feeling and the annoyance. The smell of glass and something burnt wrapped around me.

"I got him." I called before forcing Shak to move a little faster, until I was in front of Gabriel and weaving in and out of the buildings. The sound of the hooves on the pavement was deafening as the seven of us moved.

Ten minutes passed, and we broke out of the Capital and hit the rural, rolling hills on the outside of the city. Darkness covered the land as the light from the moon didn't do much to help.

"There, those horses." Alice yelled from somewhere behind me. Sure enough, in the distance, running at full speed was four horses.

Gabriel flew past me and took the lead again, Ravi's golden legs pumping harder than I had ever seen them. I was in awe of Gabriel in that moment and how much he looked like a brave prince going to war, he looked like the noble knight from the stories I was told when I was younger.

I pushed Skah forward, my hair blowing back in the wind and blowing the dirt from my clothes.

Tree's started popping up as we rushed after the people who had kidnapped the Ruby Court Prince and soon enough we were surrounded by the trees of the Firewoods. The tall pines reaching up to the dark sky in every direction.

Our horses jumped over fallen tree's and curved in and out of the trees, gaining ground on the people ahead of us.

"Mal." Gabriel called and Mal on his dark brown horse moved up beside the Opal Prince. A rope with heavy weights on each end was lifted from Mal's pouch as he moved forward, he wrapped the rope around his arm as he moved at Gabriel's side. Their two horses moving in sync.

I looked up at the shoulder's that were clad in black cloaks right as one of the men, turned his hood falling off as he pulled a bow off his back and nocked an arrow and aimed it right for Mal.