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EMBER “Are they dead?” I asked as I inched forward to peak over the desk at the beast blocking the hallway. “No, but they can be. Would that make you more comfortable?” Kade leaned around me to take a look at my packmate. “What?! No! Absolutely not!” I shouted before his hand clamped down over
The ceiling was half as high as it would be in a regular room, so one had to hunch to go inside. It had made me feel claustrophobic, and I hadn’t spent more than a few seconds there when I first found it. “Don’t tell me you want to follow the trail of blood,” I whispered as Kade stood. “We’re fo
EMBER I glanced at the clock on the wall of the fourth bedroom we had cleared. It was only one in the morning. We still had hours to go before the sun would come up and Dex would be back. Our relationship may have been a strategic play for him, but it felt very real for me, and after tonight, I
Kade dropped the beast to the ground, just as a second turned the corner and came at him from the other side. He turned to the newcomer, and I felt my heart stop when I noticed it wasn’t the one from the office. That made at least three, and I felt our chances of getting out of here untouched pl
EMBER I held my breath as the creature passed the office, my trembling hand over my mouth. They would be able to smell my fear and hear my heart hammering away in my chest, but the sound of Kade’s fight against the others seemed to hold the beast's attention, and it continued down the hall. I w
“Jump!” Kade shouted, and without a second thought, I jumped out of the window. The air around us thickened, slowing our descent, but we still hit the ground in a rough landing. Kade held most of my weight and grunted as he stumbled back. He must have twisted his ankle or hurt his foot from the f
EMBER The click of the gun made my heart drop, and I twisted the piece of metal in my hands as I tried to figure out what I had done wrong. The safety was off, and the magazine was there. Panic flooded my system, and I looked up, pulling my arm back as I prepared just to throw the damn thing at h
“I… I’m fine. No one hurt me or Kade, but they tried to. You weren’t the only one locked in the pack house with us; just the only one we found had been chained up. Someone wanted me or Kade dead, no matter the cost.” I said, looking at the exhausted warrior Fae sitting on the porch with his elbows o