CADE
The messenger was gone but his words still echoed in my head. I supposed it would be doing that for quite a while.
'There was an attack of Icestone," he had said, looking shocked and very sad. "Your father... is dead."
It was ridiculous, of course, the idea of him dying. I had almost laughed. As if on cue, my phone had begun buzzing wildly, the sound of notifications and message pouring in.
It hadn't been only my device buzzing madly. It was Jace and Chase's too. With hands that didn't seemed to be attached to my body, I had reached for the phone, unlocked it.
I clicked on a notification at random, saw the headlines in big bold black type: TRAGEDY AT ICESTONE. ALPHA WALLACE AND OTHERS CONFIRMED DEAD.
The phone dropped from my fingers onto the floor.
I didn't know I had read i
