She turns her head, spitting out a mouthful of blood. “Send him to hell.” Her four words are confident but shaky. My alpha fills with primal satisfaction at the fact that she is allowing me to be the one to end his life when I know she is perfectly capable of doing it herself.
I will avenge my mate.
With a roar, I pummel into him, until there is more of his blood coating my fist than my own. His face is unrecognizable by the time I drop him to the ground. When I turn, my omega rushes to me, climbing up my body like a tree, I hold her to me, pressing a kiss to the hollow of her throat.
“Kole,” she cries, wrapping her arms around my neck and holding me close. “I—”
“I have never been in love before” I cut her off, putting my hand on her throat to have her look at me. She needs to know the truth of my heart. How there is no life without her. Her eyes are wide as she takes me in. “But…But I know with my entire being that I am in love with you, JoHarding.”
Her lips claim mine, and she groans into my mouth when I open up to her kiss. Our tongues tangle, our passion fed by the adrenaline that comes with a kill.
We only part when Hayden clears his throat. “Uh, guys…”
I press one last kiss to her lips. “I love you too,” she whispers before turning her head towards my pack brother.
“What are we gonna do with this guy? Also…my dad is still upstairs.”
“Shit.” Sam hisses. “Whatarewe going to do about the Senator?”
“Kill him,” Jo and I say at the same time.
“Awww,” she grins, booping me on the nose before shimmying down. “Jinx, you owe me a soda.” I let her go, albeit reluctantly, and she walks to Hayden, gently taking the gun from his grasp.
His shoulders relax slightly when she does, and I know he’s relieved to be free of the burden of possibly killing someone.
“We can’t just kill a State Senator,” West runs his hands over his face like he can’t believe he has to say this. “This isn’t like killing Banesworth, where nobody will miss him, or the guys that attacked the safe house. This is an actual political figure who, believe it or not, millions of peoplelove.”
Jo sighs, keeping the gun pointed at the scientist. “Tell us what you know, Sinclair, and maybe we’ll just knock you out instead of killin’ you.”
The scientist looks up in fear, his eyes wide. “P…p…please don’t kill me.”
“Weren’t you listenin’?” Jo rolls her eyes. “I’m gonna ask you some questions, and if you answer, I won’t kill ya.”
“W...What do you want to know?”
“Is there another way outta here besides the front door?” She taps her foot impatiently.
“The back door? But it’s also in the house.”
“Obviously. I mean is there another way outdown here, dipshit,” she huffs. “Really, they expect us to believe these guys went to college when they can’t even answer a simple question?”
“Not…not down here, no.” The scientist shakes his head.
“Welp,” Jo sighs, pulling on a latex glove and grabbing a syringe from the ground that fell when I was beating Guard One into hamburger meat. “Looks like we might have to kill your daddy.” She jams the syringe into the scientist's neck, and straightens as he slumps, unconscious.
“What was in that?” Sam asks, tilting his head as he looks at the scientist.
“No idea.” Jo shrugs. “Let’s get the fuck outta here.”
thirty-seven
Jo
Armed with the guns from the guards, Kole and Sam lead our group up the stairs. West brings up the rear, Hayden and I firmly in the middle.
I roll my eyes. Overprotective alphas.
“If Dad kept the same entrance to the basement after the renovations, this should lead out right to the kitchens,” Hayden whispers.
