She yanked her arm from their hold. “Don’t touch me! Don’t you fucking touch me.”
Free of her escort, she dropped to her knees next to me and reached out with one hand.
“Do not touch him, Ms. Davis. The current in that net would likely cause your heart to fail.” Doctor Helion’s voice was cold, completely devoid of emotion.
Fucking icy bastard.
Her hand, mere inches from my face, balled into a fist as she looked at me. “I love you.”
The words settled into my soul. I had told her countless times while we were here. That she was mine. That I loved her. Would kill for her. Die for her.
She had not said the words to me. Until now.
What a fucking tragedy this was turning out to be. And there was nothing I could do. I had failed her. Failed in every possible way.
“Get her out of here. She doesn’t need to see this.”
I fought to stay awake. I fought for her.
I failed.
The last thing I saw was my mate kicking, screaming and fighting as a warlord lifted her with one arm around her waist and carried her out of the room.
As I faded away, Helion knelt down next to my head. “I’m sorry, my friend. This is how it has to be.”
11
Adrian
Helion’s guards escorted me to Max’s mansion, dropped me on the proverbial doorstep and left without a word.
Jerks.
When my mother saw me, she gave a soft cry, rushed forward and wrapped me in her arms.
I broke down. I’d held it together until that moment, but something about having Mom there to‘make things all better’broke the dam I’d been using to hold in my emotions.
“That asshole! He betrayed us. He was supposed to arrange transport for us but he showed up with a small army and shot this net thing over Kovo so he couldn’t fight. Then I couldn’t even touch him because it would give me a heart attack and they dragged him out of there like a sack of potatoes. It was terrible. I hate him. Ihate him.”
I had never hated another person in my life, always thought hate was nothing more than a big waste of energy. I mean, why give so much of your time, energy, and emotion to someone who doesn’t matter to you? Right?
But right now, I fuckinghatedthat Prillon.
“I want to kill him, Mom. I want to take one of those blasters and kill him. Dead. So dead.” The entire ride here I had used visions of Helion’s head exploding at the end of my space gun to shove back what I didn’t want to see in my head. Kovo on the ground, muscles in spasm, his entire body arched in pain as the electrical current from that net surged through him like a lightning strike. Not only logic told me Kovo was in pain, I’d sensed it through this new link I had to him. So much pain, and all he wanted, all beast wanted, was to protect me.
Helion. No way I was going back to Earth now. I was going to find a way to take down the Prillon. Kill him. Something. He needed to die. He was evil. Pure and simple. Evil with a capital E.
All out of fury, I hugged my mom and sobbed into her shoulder. “I love him. I can’t do this. I can’t lose him like this. I just can’t.”
Max came over, now that I had stopped ranting, and wrapped both of us up in his huge arms.
“What are we going to do?” Mom asked, looking up at her mate.
“I do not know, but we must hurry.”
The worried tone of his voice was one I rarely heard. “Why? What’s wrong? What’s happening?”
He sighed as Stefani came into the room. “Group hug? I’m in!”
