Rodger POVBANG BANG BANGI started awake, almost falling off the couch as someone knocked furiously on the door.Without prompting, the door flew open, Jamie standing naked in the doorway. He was a sweaty, panting mess, leaves and twigs all in his hair.“She was taken,” Jamie bellowed, still struggling to catch his breath.It didn’t take me more than a second to fully wake up, pushing off the sofa and sliding on the shoes laid beside me on the floor. I don’t even think they were my shoes. Kai’s by the feel of them, but my worst fear come to life was too much for me to comprehend anything else.“When?” I demanded, grabbing my keys and pushing past Jamie out the front door.“Ten minutes.”“Where!?”Jamie was right on my heels, nakedly hurrying into the passenger door before I put my car into reverse and pulled out of the dirt driveway.“The main road. Cindy and Chloe were, like, just fucking swallowed,” Jamie tripped over his words. “It just ate his fucking car and closed before Alexi c
My blood ran cold, and something started to vibrate deep in my chest. It was my magic, now boxed up and contained. I didn’t feel it coursing through my body like it normally would have been, but it was still triggered deep inside of me where it was contained, affected by Mr. Smith right in front of me.This man, monster, whatever the fuck he was, was with Cameron now. I didn’t feel triggered by dark magic at all when Cameron was putting his disgusting hands all over me. The only thing Cameron triggered was my disgust and homicidal side. That meant Cameron was choosing to work with him. Willingly.Why?“My, you are even lovelier than I could have imagined,” Mr. Smith hooked his snake-like cane under my chin, forcing me to look up at him.I scoffed loudly, tearing my chin away from the cold, hard metal. “You’re a hell of a lot uglier off-screen.” I spat on his shiny, expensive-looking shoes.He looked more amused than offended. Staring down at the flem smeared on the shiny black leather
Cindy POVMy gut was churning. My skin was sticky from the constant cold sweat. My jittery unease was making me feel sick.Alexi saw me. He chased me. I thought I could make it out of the pack house with Chloe undetected since everyone else was occupied, doing this and that in order to serve and protect her.If I had just left a few minutes sooner….Fucking Chloe. She had to act like a whining little princess for too freaking long. If she had just shut the door to the Alpha suite sooner, I could have taken her sooner. She stood there running her mouth forever, and now I’m screwed.In and out. That’s how it should have gone. The venom or whatever the crap was in that syringe was supposed to cut off her magic, the wolfsbane cut off her wolf, and then my scent masker was going to help me get her ass out of there before anyone picked up the trail. I had everything mapped out perfectly, even timing Nonna’s visit to her room, so I appeared just after Nonna left, making it look like I was se
Mick POV“This is where you saw him go?” I asked as we got out of the car in an open field about a hundred yards from the old hotel.Driana took a long drag from her cigarette, leaning out of the car window. “That’s what I said.”“There’s not a damn thing here,” Miles curled his lip. His hair was disheveled, and his eyes looked mad. I probably looked the same. We’ve been fucking insane since Chloe was taken.I took a deep inhale of the air, Rome pushing through to the surface, desperately searching for a sign of our mate.Nothing. There was nothing. Not the faintest hint of sage or any scent of our pack.“The tires cut off here,” Miles pointed at the flattened area on the grass.Rodger and Kai had just gotten out of their car and were coming up to the place Miles was pointing to. Rodger gasped and stopped short after stepping over the tracks to the undisturbed patch of grass beside it, where the track should have continued. His body shivered, and his head fell back.Kai stopped short
“Say it again,” his voice came in an enticing hum.“S-say what?”My back was pressed against the wall, but my muscles still contracted as I tried to impossibly move back further. Every step he took closer to me, the more the heat buzzing at my center pulsed and expanded. The fiery magic was igniting my veins, pumping through me with every violent beating of my heart.“My name,” he husked, tossing his head back, so his dark eyes were staring down at me. “Too many millennia have passed since I’ve heard you say it.”The pounding in my head drummed loudly behind my ears. Cortina. She was snarling, using the fire inside of me to give her that final push through.“I don’t know what sick delusion you have been feeding yourself, but I am not this old hag you’re thinking of.”He chuckled darkly. “You are wrong, Chloé.” He reached his hand out to touch me. “Let me show you.”His hand touched the candle holder planted like a weapon between us, and the metal dissolved into liquid, dripping to the
Cindy POVI needed to get out of here. I’ve tried to stay out of sight since leaving that room, so I could think about what to do next, but time was getting more urgent.The scent masker was beginning to fade. This was the last place I wanted to be when the rogue stench started to pour out of me. Most of this pack already looked at me like I was a bug, but I was a useful bug before.Now, I was worthless. That snake bastard made it abundantly clear.My wolf was snarling, already feeling lost and alone. We were rogue before at Broom StiXXX, but not like this. There, we had a community. A family.Now I have nothing.I wanted to blame Chloe. Goddess knows I do, but I know I have no one to blame but myself right now. Why did I think I could trust these people? I can’t trust anyone.Not anymore.With a twisting gut, I covertly moved through the halls, trying to avoid the crowded room of the bunker as I moved towards the entrance. I was almost there when a deep, raspy voice startled at me fr
Chloe POVCortina and the vision around us swirled into a dizzying blur, and then disappeared as the tacky bedroom reappeared. Cortina groaned as her consciousness joined with mine again.Time was still stopped, Mr. Smith, or Asmodeus, whatever the fuck his name was, was kneeling in front of me, just like he was before Cortina broke free.I blinked, shaking my head slightly to clear the fog from the magic-induced dream-like state. As my powers settled inside of me, the world turned on its axis again and time resumed.“Breed with me, my goddess, and fulfill my destiny.”“What?” I leaned back, confused and disgusted by Mr. Smith’s request. Then I remembered the bullshit he was spewing before Cortina showed me the truth.“You saw it yourself,” Mr. Smith continued on, unaware of all I knew. “You saw how we were meant to be.”He leaned closer, brushing his fingers over my nape, dark eyes tightening at my mate marks. Cortina snarled loudly in my head at his close proximity. My skin felt col
Mick POV“He’s getting away!” I bellowed inside Rome.“Not this time,” Rome tossed a Fire Moon warrior off our back, then bolted for the retreating monster our mate’s ex had become.Rome was hurting, seeing the nightmare his former counterpart had become. I could feel the turmoil tearing him up, the compassion he felt for the bastard. I understood it. His love for our mate overshadowed everything, but there was a time that Rome loved his first human.His first human wasn’t even human anymore. The Cameron he once held such high hopes for was replaced by the creature we were hunting now.Miles started to follow, but Rodger, still clinging to my back, yelled at him to stop.“Tell your brother to keep searching for my daughter!” Rodger yelled into Rome’s ear.“Keep looking for Chloe. I can handle her ex.”Miles’s bloodthirsty wolf snarled, but turned to do as we said. “You better fucking put him down. This ends today.”“This ends today.” Rome chased the monster of his former human, not w