She remembered his past laughter when he ground up bits of iron and blew them onto her skin, burning her until she was covered in boils and scars.
She remembered the way he whistled while he plucked her wings until they were bare, cracked, and chapped.
She remembered the life fading from Persius’s eyes in his cage as Lemmuns looked at his empty syringe and said, “I guess Pegasican’tsurvive that.”
“Gonna…kill you,” she managed to say between numb lips.
Lemmuns scoffed. “I will be done well before the boys return.”
Right. Because he thought she meant, “My mates are going to kill you.”
His mistake.
CHAPTER 28
“I…” She flexed her pinkie finger again.Come on.
She closed her eyes and imagined the feeling of her warm flames covering her arms. Covering all of her.
She summoned the rage at being back in her cage.Because of them.
Her mateswanted to lessen her powers. Because they were afraid of her abilities? Or because they were afraid of what she would go on to do without the alpha males? Were they afraid of what would happen when she did notneedtheir protection?
It was time to see the real damage her phoenix genes could do.
She opened her eyes. FIRE.
Flames burst from her arms, over her back, legs, and hair.
“Ahhh,” Lemmuns wailed in surprise and pain, clutching his burned hands as he pulled back from the cage.
On fire, the blue powder’s numbing agent seemed to burn away instantly.
Nix pushed herself up and spun around to face him. She reached between the bars, grabbed his throat, and pulled himback to the cage. He pressed against the bars and breathed heavily as he gaped at her.
“The powder should have kept you down for another—”
“I’m going to kill you.” Wrath ruling her, she yanked him forward, banging him into the metal bars again and again. Flames danced up her hands and burned at his skin and white lab coat.
“Stop,” Lemmuns choked.
“Were there others?” Nix asked him. “Was I special?”
BANG, BANG, BANG.
She threw him down to the ground and grabbed his ankle. She pulled his leg into the cage with her until his crotch slammed into the metal bars.
“I’ll take this,” she said as she grabbed his scalpel. She pressed the blade to his crotch, right over his dick. “How many people have you used this on? How many girls have you kept in cages?”
“Gods!” Lemmuns sounded too stunned to respond.
“You think you are so powerful. But with a blade to your dick, you can hardly remember how to speak.”
“Please!”
“Would you like to know what you did when I told you I would kill you someday?”
Lemmuns struggled to breathe.
