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“Ma!” I yelled. “Ma, who’s coming? Where do we go?
But there was only silence.
“F uck!” I yelled and threw the walkie-talkie down.
“She’s gotta be talking about Orion,” Zane said, his brow furrowed with concern.
But my mother had said “they’re coming.”
I pressed my palm to my head, trying to think.
Just then, the door flew open, and Braden stepped through. “Everything good in here? I heard yelling.” He glanced from me to Zane. “The bad kind, I should say..
I narrowed my eyes at him. Of course, he had listened in on us earlier.
“No, this is f ucking serious,” I snapped.
it.”
Braden shook his head. “You can’t leave here,” he said.
Yeah, we f ucking knew that.
Braden sn atched up the walkie and spoke into it. “Malachi, are you there?”
There was still silence on the other end.
“I didn’t hear Malachi’s voice when my mother came through,” I told him.
“S hit,” Braden cursed. “This isn’t good.”
“How strong is this protective spell?” Zane asked.
“Pretty da mn strong,” Braden said. “But if Orion finds us here, then we’re stuck until he can break through F uck. We’d have to leave here eventually. And if Orion found us, he could surround the place Guards and make sure we never escaped.
with High “What’s going on?” Lanie asked sleepily as she walked into the room holding Stella. It was almost a shock. to see her dressed normally, with no blindfold over her eyes.
“We have to leave,” Braden said, his gaze distant, like he was lost in thought. “If it turns out Orion’s not on our trail, we can always come back.”
I knew it wasn’t that simple, and so did Lanie by the look on her face. Her eyes were wide and she was chewing her bottom lip.
Braden seemed to shake himself out of whatever daze he was in. “We have to move quickly,” he said, already beginning to gather things we’d need to bring with us.
I walked over to Lanie.
“I never really unpacked,” she said in a quiet voice. “My suitcase is ready.”
We started taking things out of the cabin to the black SUV still parked among the trees. Our eyes shifted every which way as we worked, keeping our wolves close to the surface so we could hear anyone who approached.
“We’re ready to go,” I called to Lanie inside. We’d decided she’d come out at the very last second, right when we were ready to drive away.
She’d barely made it down the front porch steps when we heard the snap of a branch in the woods.
Zane, Braden, and I whipped around. And there, on the other side of the protective border was my With Mason.
father.
Lanie gasped and a s ob ripped from her lips.
Mason looked like he’d been through literal hell. He was beaten, bloodied, and barely standing upright. His ankles and wrists were tied together with silver chains.
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“Lanie,” Mason wheezed. “Don’t give him anything.”
“Shut up,” my father cried, slapping Mason across the face.
Lanie cried out, tears running down her face.
Regardless of how I felt about Mason, Lanie’s pain cut straight through me. My father was a f ucking. a sshole, and he was going to pay.
“I want Lanie and Stella, my father announced. “Come with me, or else.”
“F uck no,” I growled. He was insane if he thought I’d ever let him touch Lanie again. I’d die before that happened.
“Fine,” my father said. “Then Mason dies.”
Lanie–
“NO!” I yelled, rushing forward.
But all at once, Xander, Zane, and Braden stepped in front of me.
“You can’t, Lanie” Zane held out his hands to stop me.
But I couldn’t watch Mason die, either. I looked down at Stella, then back at Mason. He shook his head weakly.
This was an impossible decision. Any choice I made would be devastating.
“He’s all talk, Lanie,” Xander said, his wolf rising up in him as he faced his father. “He’s a f ucking coward.”
“You disrespectful little sh it,” Orion said.
“I’d rather be disrespectful than f ucking evil,” Xander snapped. “You’re threatening to kill your only two sons all because you want to build an undefeatable army? Really?”
My heart ached for Xander and Mason, especially since they both were such great fathers. And for Zane, trapped in the middle of it all.
If I turned myself in, I couldn’t even make their pain go away. Stella was their child, and I was their mate.
“I’m waiting, Lanie,” Orion growled. “Make your choice.”
“Are you st upid?” Braden asked.
We all looked at him, shock on our faces.
Orion reddened, shaking with fury. “Excuse me, bloodsucker?”
“There’s three of us, and one of you,” Braden said, planting his hands on his hips. “We can take your old as s down in seconds flat.”
Da mn, Braden had some balls. I could tell by the glances Xander and Zane exchanged that they were thinking the same thing.
Asudden stillness fell over all of us, and I wondered what would happen next. I hadn’t made my decision yet, but Orion was growing antsier by the second. His canines had dropped, and so had his claws. But by now everyone was half vampire or werewolf except me.
Orion’s eyes flashed crimson. His gaze swept over everyone, then landed on me.
“Time’s up,” he said, raising Mason off the ground by the throat.
It was like time stood still. I shut my eyes tight, my stomach flip-flopping and my ears ringing.
I waited to hear the thud of Mason’s body, and Orion’s vicious laugh, but instead I heard a whooshing slowly opened my eyes. Braden was holding Mason, now inside the border of the protective spell.
e okay. Lanie,” Zane said. He’d walked over to me, and he was rubbing my back.
“That was easy,” Braden said. “You have no leverage how.”
Too easy, I thought.
And sure enough, Orion’s lips spread into a wicked smirk.
“Come on out boys,” he said.
Suddenly, at least ten High Guards emerged from the trees, walking forward to flank Orion, My heart thudded. They couldn’t get to us, could they?
“One problem,” Braden said. “The spell. It can only be broken by the witch who cast it. You can stand out there forever, but Lanie’s never crossing that f ucking line.
“You didn’t think this through did you, old man?” Xander asked.
But Orion’s jaw was set defiantly.
“Actually, I did,” he said. He reached behind the nearest tree and pulled out a bound and gagged Rhiannon. Her eyes were big and glassy and full of fear.
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