CHAPTER 72: TAKING HER BACK

~ KILLIAN

As we reached the steps that led to the second floor, I felt a wave wash in my direction, and it threw me down the stairs.

“Holy shit! What the hell was that, Jared?” I said as I hit the floor, falling on my back.

Jared, who had not climbed the stairs, stood where he was and laughed at me.

“I told you a strong sorceress held that fort. Are you ready to listen to me now?” He said.

“Okay, Jared. So how do we get through this obstruction?” I said, standing up from the floor and beating the dust off my clothes.

“This alpha, with it, we can repel that,” Jared said as he brought out a dagger from the side of his coat and another liquid in his hand.

I watched the display before me. My beta seems to have become something else; whatever it took to get Laura out of there, I was down for it.

"Okay, do your thing,” I said to Jared as I raised my right hand, pointing for him to take the lead.

Jared turned to me as he poured some of the liquid out of the small glass bottle onto the dagge