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Either Simon didn’t hear the shame in my voice or chose to ignore it. He nodded eagerly. “Indeed. With my increased magical powers, my experiments grew in complexity at an exponential rate. My inventions and developments progressed at leaps and bounds. Soon, I’ll be able to show the world what true power is.” Simon pulled his eyes away from me and stared into space, voice dropping to a whisper. “Perhaps one day, my father and his pack will look upon me with pride.”That last bit was barely audible, and it confused the hell out of me. Maybe there was even more going on in Simon’s head than he let on. Desperate to learn more, I kept my mouth shut, hoping he’d give more glimpses into his mind. Instead, he ushered me into another corridor, leading me away from his abominations.“Here is where I keep much of the fuel for my most intense magical work,” Simon said.He punched a code into a panel. A section of that wall slid aside, revealing floor-to-ceiling racks filled with angel wings. Des
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As badly as I wanted Wyatt to come swooping in like a white knight to save me, I also feared it. Gods only knew what kind of security measures Simon had built into this place. The creatures he had contained here alone would be more than Wyatt could handle on his own. Still, he would come for me. I knew it. He would fight tooth and nail to save me. It was a quality I’d spent years hating, but now? When I needed it most? I realized it was one of his greatest qualities. He’d never leave someone he loved to fend for themselves.We reached the exam room, and I spotted the vampire Simon had tortured on the floor. His burst eye had regenerated, but he still gazed out with dead eyes. Whatever Simon had done must have been severe for him to still be healing.The other tech sat beside Abel’s unconscious form, scribbling notes on a tablet.Before Simon could return me to the table, a Klaxon alarm ripped through the dull silence of the lab. Everyone, excluding Simon, flinched in surprise. The sci
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He had me in his arms before I could blink. Collapsing into him, I allowed myself one sob before I forced myself to regain control. We had to be ready to fight our way out. His scent intoxicated me, sending shivers of pleasure through my body. Clutching at him, I basked in his strength. He was alive. He’d come to rescue me. I was a strong woman, but sometimes it was nice to be saved.Especially if it was by the man you loved.Chapter 4WyattFeeling Kira’s body pressed against mine sent a shiver of relief through me that surged all the way to my bones. My inner wolf howled deep, letting out all the stress that had been building within him since Kira went missing.“Are you okay?” I asked.She pulled away from our embrace to look into my eyes. “I’ve never been so relieved to see you in my life. That’s saying a lot.”She hadn’t answered my question. “Kira, I need to know that you’re okay.”“I’ll be fine, but we’ve got to hurry. There’s no time to talk.”The sounds of howling and snarling
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As we ran, it became evident that she’d had some time to explore the compound, as she rounded corners and rushed through doors like she’d memorized the place. Knowing her, she very well may have.Eli had managed to shut down the lockdown security mechanism in Simon’s facility, which was how we’d breached the compound. Every door that had been locked now stood wide open, which looked to be a good thing. Kira led me through what looked like the biggest, heaviest door I’d ever seen in my life, where a horror show of unspeakable monsters awaited beyond it. We were going too fast for me to get a good look, but those I did see made my stomach flip wildly, and I had to swallow down the vomit that threatened to spew from me.The sounds of fighting had faded to almost nothing by the time we reached Leif’s holding chamber. Sitting with his back against the wall, Leif looked much like he had the last time I’d seen him—rocking monotonously back and forth, holding his head. His hair lay in greasy
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It managed to swing a paw toward me, raking its claws painfully down my side before the cartilage of its throat snapped and crumbled between my teeth.On the opposite side of the hall, Eli had dispatched the other feral. She knelt next to the dead Havener, a devastated look on her face as she ran a thumb along his jawline.“Jackson? Dammit,” she muttered. “We aren’t leaving him. Gods only know what that sick fuck will do to his body.”“Are we gonna carry him?” I asked, glancing back at Mika, who was still carrying Leif. I didn’t see how we’d make it out with two bodies.Eli gave me a pained look and shook her head. “No, but I’m not letting Simon experiment on him. Jackson was a friend. He deserves better. Hang on.”She put her hands on the man’s body. While she closed her eyes to concentrate, I glanced around nervously. Time had gone strange. It somehow felt as though it was going really slow and really fast at the same time. We had to get out of here, but I didn’t want to rush Eli.
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“Wyatt!” a scream sounded from down the hall.I glanced toward it. Kira. She’d managed to shift back and was trying to come for me, but Crew and Gavin had her by the arms, trying to drag her away. The bootsteps drew ever closer, and now I could make out voices. Simon inched closer, saliva hanging from his maw.We weren’t going to make it.Zoe, her face covered in blood but showing no injuries, rounded the corner like the answer to our prayers. “There you are, you assholes! I thought you’d left me.”Simon swiveled his head around and growled at Zoe, who sent a massive cloud of pitch black smoke toward him. The tendrils of the ink-black mist enveloped him, and barking wolf coughs erupted from the fae/shifter’s mouth as he tried to breathe.Zoe turned and sent an additional cloud down the hall behind her. It swarmed the corridor. The sounds of screams and coughing echoed down the hallway, Simon’s reinforcements overcome by the magic.Zoe rushed toward me. “Move it or lose it, fuzzy boy.”
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The hike up the hill to the rock outcropping was silent. Even Zoe was too exhausted to do more than gasp for breath as we trudged to our hiding spot. With the overhang hiding us from the moonlight, I was able to sit with Kira.“What did that asshat put inside you?” Zoe asked her. “Was it a magic gemstone? Metal? Glass? What?”Kira, still looking drained and tired, lifted her sleeve again. “A pellet sort of thing. Probably metal, but I’m not sure. I didn’t get a good look at it. I don’t think it was magical, though. A vampire inserted it with some sort of injector gun.”I looked at Zoe. “Can you get it out?”She cocked an eyebrow at me. Her face still had a smear of blood across it, making her look like some kind of warmongering fae goblin. “Do you doubt my skills?”“Just want to make sure Kira is safe.”“You and me both, buddy,” Zoe said with a humorless chuckle. “If there are no counter spells and it’s a simple mechanical device, it should be easy. But medical magic isn’t my forte.”
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After a few moments, I probed again. “Kira, what’s going on? Are you sure you’re okay?”She nodded and pulled her head back, looking up at me with bloodshot eyes. “I’m innocent. I didn’t kill that man when I was a kid. I was never a murderer, or a monster, or any of those things.”All I could do was stare at her. How had she discovered that? “Did Simon tell you that?”Kira laughed and wiped an arm across her face to dry the tears. “He was the guy, Wyatt. Simon. He was my friend’s uncle. He gave me something that forced me to shift, and I almost killed him, but he managed to get away. He faked his death. That means none of it was my fault. I spent years thinking I was a monster, but that wasn’t true.”“You were never a monster,” I said firmly. “I always knew that.”She chuckled and shook her head, fresh tears spilling down her cheeks. “That’s great, but your faith couldn’t wipe away the guilt I’d locked up inside me all those years.”I put my thumb under her chin and tilted her head up
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Who knew what the future held? Maybe things would look even more different in a few years. After all, look how much had changed in a few short months.I walked down to get a better view of everyone. So many familiar faces. Chelsey and Crew, of course. Mika, with Zoe snuggled right up against him. J.D. and Leif, holding hands. Leif’s body, face, and attitude were stronger and healthier than during our final days on Bloodstone Island. It had taken weeks of intensive work with spell casters, healers, and psychologists, but he’d fully recovered. No longer feral, he’d begun working with J.D. to form a nonprofit company to help shifters who were in danger of going feral or who had recently slipped over. He wanted to give everyone the same help he’d been given.Abel had come with his new girlfriend, the woman he’d always thought should have been his fated mate. My brother Kolton stood beside Eli, their hands clasped together. Eli was even more beautiful than before. After we’d revealed all t
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I needed to speak to Kira alone. Now that everything was wrapping up, I had to see how she was doing. Taking her hand, I led her back down the hallway to a private alcove. I kissed her, my lips lingering on hers for longer than necessary. All the stress of the last few days—hell, the last few weeks—finally felt like it was easing. Now we would have time to think and recover.“How are you?” I asked. “After what Simon did to you in there?”Watching her turn into a mindless animal had frightened me even more than when she’d attacked me. Seeing those soulless eyes glaring down at me while she snapped and growled had damn near broken my heart.Kira took a steadying breath and nodded. “For a minute or two there, I really thought I might kill you. I had no control. The idea of killing my own fated mate was horrifying. I don’t think I’ve ever been that terrified in my life. But it’s over.” That beautiful smile returned to her face. “Whatever Lucina did broke that spell. I don’t think I’ll eve
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The elevator trip was spent in silence, each of us basking in the other’s happiness and relief. Kira’s emotions bounced through my mind, and I was ecstatic that we hadn’t lost this deep, binding connection.At the ground floor, the doors slid open and we were met with two voices, one mewling and begging, the other pissed.“Told your ass not to run, didn’t I? And my name is fucking August, not Autumn!”What the hell was going on?“Please, you must let me go, you must. I have fans. Oh, gods, it hurts. What do you want? Money? I can get you girls. Boys, if that’s your speed? Whatever you want!”Von?I turned to look at Kira, and her eyes were as shocked as mine. We sprinted from the elevator and around the corner. Von was pinned to the wall with the broken leg of a chair. The makeshift stake pierced him in the shoulder rather than the heart. August stood before him, using a hand to hold the vampire’s head up. Seeing us coming down the hall, he let Von go, letting the host dangle six inch
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Movement caught my eye, and I glanced at our friends. August was talking hurriedly to Crew, who nodded and took over control of the camera. August then rushed over to take a seat at the table while Crew zoomed the camera in close to August’s face.“Good afternoon, world. I hope you enjoyed the latest episode of the new show, What the Fuck? I’m your host, August Evander.“Now that I have a captive audience, I have some cats—er, dogs—to let out of the bag. I’m sure you’ll all enjoy this. We all love dirt. Let’s spill the tea, shall we?”August rambled off the information he’d dug up, starting with Crew’s parents. He proceeded to discuss the Tranquility Council’s corruption, the assassinations carried out by Tranquility operatives, pay-offs, embezzling, blackmailing, paid-off judges, murders, and more. Nearly every alpha and beta from the upper packs were named in some dirty dealing or another.At first, we stood transfixed by August’s rapid-fire delivery, but eventually, the board membe
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Heline turned and registered the camera. A mix of emotions flashed across her face--confusion, understanding, shock, anger, fear, rage. Her face was even paler than before as she took in the truth. Millions had seen and listened to her admit to all she’d done.Behind me, Wyatt chuckled. “After all this, I can’t believe I’m happy to see a camera.”Heline’s eyes widened, and I thought she was going to unleash a tirade on us. But instead, she grinned and laughed along with Wyatt.“Yes, yes, yes, so funny,” she chuckled. “Of course I knew that camera was there. Do you really think the great Heline would let anything happen to her acolytes? I care deeply for them. I would never allow harm to come to them for something I allegedly did.”“Really?” I asked dryly.“I fully intended to make the fated mate pairings right again. I always did, my dear girl,” Heline added.The way she called me dear girl made my guts go watery and cold. The smile on her lips was no longer jovial. It looked like the
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Stop! Please no, don’t hurt him. Gods, please stop, I screamed out at myself from deep in my mental prison, but through my internal screams, I watched as the jaws that had once belonged to me snapped and bit at Wyatt. He managed to hold me back, his hands under my jaw, but I was strong and he’d been caught unaware. I couldn’t even hear his thoughts or emotions now. All I could see was the terror in his eyes as my teeth drew nearer his neck.“Enough!” a shout erupted from behind me.Even in the manic feral state of my body, whatever controlled me turned to see the mousy woman standing. She lifted her arms and a flash of magic shot forward, surrounding me in a net of darkness, the strands of it digging painfully into me. With a jerk of her hand, I was hauled away from Wyatt, leaving him blessedly safe.Inside the strange magical net, Simon’s influence melted away, the weird connection between us shattering. Suddenly, I was free. Freer than I’d felt since that night all those years ago.
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“I can’t die like this,” he gasped. “My fans. They’re watching. If I die on air, it will be appalling.”Ignoring Von’s pleas, Wyatt said, “Call for Heline, Von.”Von’s murmured begging ceased. “Excuse me?”“Of every person on this show, you’ve been around the longest. If anyone knows the moon goddess, it’s you. You see her at the end of every damned season. Call her. Tell her to get her ass down here. Now.”“But…but…but,” Von stammered. “My boy, I can’t simply call to a goddess—aah!” Von’s words cut off in a shriek as Wyatt dug the pencil in deeper.“Von,” Wyat said with a sad shake of his head, “I am not a fan of yours. Please don’t piss me off. I’ve staked enough vamps in my day to know exactly how scared you are of this pencil.”I couldn’t take my eyes off Von’s face. The sheer terror I saw there was both sad and cathartic. He’d put us through so much shit, had giggled, laughed, and applauded over it. Now he was getting a taste of the danger he loved—and it seemed he wasn’t a fan.
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Every time I tried to open my mouth, nothing came out. I must have looked guilty beyond belief. Wyatt turned toward me and saw the look of horror in my eyes. The fingers of his mind drifted into mine, and an instant later, he spun in his chair, angry eyes leveling on Simon.“He’s doing something to her,” Wyatt snapped.Simon adjusted his glasses and laughed. “Me? I’m doing nothing. Perhaps Ms. Durst is simply speechless with guilt for her crimes. Have you thought about that, Mr. Rivers?”Veins bulged at my neck as I tried to force words from my mouth, but it was like a brick wall had been built between my voice box and my mouth. I stared down at the table, at the pad of paper and sharpened pencil I had before me, trying to make sense of what was happening. Around the room, the other guests and board members glared at me with dark, accusing eyes.A hand touched my leg. Firm yet gentle, gripping my thigh. The fingers cool even through my pants. Von’s assistant. Surprised, I glanced down
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Chapter 25 Kira The hesitancy I felt as we walked toward the table nearly made me freeze in place, but I pushed forward. I would not let these assholes see me weak.Before each seat was a legal pad and pencil, as if they expected us to take notes or something. Wyatt took his seat, and I sat beside him, the mousy little assistant on my other side. The woman still hadn’t said a word, which didn’t surprise me. If I had to be around Von Thornton all day, I’d keep my mouth shut, too. The guy never seemed to stop talking. The poor woman had probably given up on speaking while at work.Simon’s eyes were still on me. Even without looking in his direction, I could feel them boring into me. In the deepest recesses of my mind, I could still catch small hints and whispers of his voice, calling to me. It was less like the connection Wyatt and I shared and more like a faint memory. Any hope I’d had that I’d imagi
