As I turned the corner, I came to a wrenching stop. The smoke was coming from my house.
Kip’s truck was parked in front.
He can’t be inside the house!
Smoke billowed from the windows. The second floor was engulfed, with flames licking the roof. And somewhere in there was the man I loved.
My packages thudded on the ground, and I raced forward, only to be stopped by firemen. I had been so focused on my house and Kip maybe being inside I hadn’t noticed them until now.
“We can’t let you in there, Mason,” Henry Mathers said.
“But Kip is in there.” My certainty grew with every second.
“If he is, we’ll get him out,” Jack Dawes promised me.
“Get the fuck out of my way,” I growled.
Jack tightened his jaw. “It’s too dangerous. Let our guys handle it.”
Inside my head I could hear my tenuous hold on sanity snapping, the threads stretching, then pinging.
“I said get out of my way!”
“You need to calm down and step back,” Henry reiterated.
Calm down? Calm the fuck down?
My whole life I’d been told that as an Omega I should be quiet and respectful, that I shouldn’t be the one who made a fuss. That I should just be silent and let others do my thinking for me.
Never. The fuck. Again.
“GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY!” I roared as I shifted to my werewolf form. Waves of energy poured from me, slamming into everyone around me, who all stepped back as if I’d physically assaulted them. I rushed forward, without anyone even trying to stop me this time. I slammed the door with my hand, knocking it from its frame. Everywhere inside was a wall of flame, but I wouldn’t let that deter me. Even though every step was painful, I forced my way into the house. Bits of flaming debris landed on my fur, singeing it. I ignored it.
The smoke messed with my sense of smell, and the fire burned too hot for my eyes to allow me to see more than a foot or two. The crackling of the fire made it impossible for me to hear anything beyond that.
I was well and truly blind, deaf, and mute.
I decided to shift back and recoiled at the overwhelming heat. Someone had set out to destroy this house. I didn’t give a damn about it, but I needed my Dominant.
“Kip!” I screamed, but my words were swallowed up by the fire just like everything else was in danger of being. “Kip!”
“Mason?”
I breathed a sigh of relief, until something stepped from the flames into my line of sight. An eight-foot-tall something with deep blue scales and wings. I tried not to freak out?—
Until I saw that whatever the fuck this creature was, it was dragging a body behind it.
ThenI screamed.
“Kip?”
Everything went dark.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Mason
“Wake up, dammit!”
