“Hi babe,” Cody said, giving Dylon a peck on his lips. “The car is waiting down below, if there isn’t anything else you need to do.”
“Nope, let’s go home…our twins are waiting for us.”
“C’mon, pet, that sounds great,” Hunter said, walking with Fionn towards the elevator. After pushing the button, he pulled Fionn tight to his body, embracing him while planting a series of kisses behind his ear before whispering, “I’m proud of you, pet. You did fine in there.”
“Fionn! Wait up!”
Hearing someone call his name, Fionn looked over Hunter’s shoulder, seeing Eideard MacDùghlas heading toward him. The look on his uncle’s face caused shiversto run down his spine; his mate pulled him tight against him.
Dylon immediately blocked Fionn’s uncle from getting close, positioning his body in front of Hunter and Fionn. “What do you want, Mr. MacDùghlas?” Dylon growled.
Eideard MacDùghlas flicked his eyes over the wolf shifter and immediately smirked knowing a wolf wasn’t any threat to him. Glancing over Dylon’s shoulder, he said, “Fionn, call off your dogs. I just want to talk…I have a business proposition for you.”
“I’m not interested,” Fionn replied.
“Really? You’re going to turn down gold? For your father’s businesses?”
That stopped Fionn for a moment as he considered his uncle’s offer. “Why do you want them?”
“Sentimental reasons, mainly since I helped your father start them,” MacDùghlas said.
“Pet, may I?” asked Hunter in a very low voice.
In answer to his mate’s question, Fionn said to his uncle, “You need to talk to my mate about buying the businesses.”
“Mate?” Fionn’s uncle looked at Hunter. “You’re my nephew’s mate?”
“Yes, I am. Can I have your number so I can call you this afternoon to talk about this further?” asked Hunter.
Eideard pulled out his wallet, and slipped out a business card. “Here, I look forward to hearing from you, Mr…?”
“Hunter Evans.” He took the card and put it in his jacket pocket. Then, hearing the elevator door open, Hunter quickly entered, pushing his mate to the back of the car while Cody and Dylon positioned themselves on eitherside of him. Punching a button, he kept his eyes on Fionn’s uncle until the door closed.
Chapter 37
Clenching and unclenching his fists, Hunter watched impatiently as the elevator descended, ready to bolt from it with his mate as soon as the doors opened. Hunter’s wolf warned him his mate was in danger when Fionn’s uncle approached the four of them. But Eideard MacDùghlas was alone, so Hunter chose not to do anything except leave. Now he wondered if that was the best choice as his wolf was becoming increasingly agitated about their mate’s security.
Two more floors…one more…finally.Relieved when they came to a stop, Hunter turned to Dylon. “The car’s out front?” Before Dylon could reply, the doors slid open, and growls surrounded them. Stepping back, Hunter was greeted by snarling half-shifted wolves, rushing towards him. Before he could do anything, the first attacker was on him, pushing him and Fionn against the back wall of the elevator. Quickly, Hunter partially shifted, his hands becoming claws and his face morphing into a wolf’s. Baring his teeth, he answered the growls with growls of his own as he began to fight.
Grappling with the leader, Hunter slashed at his face and then swatted him with several blows. Howling in pain, the injured wolf began to fall, but before he even hit the floor, another wolf jumped Hunter, clawing his chest, causing him to stumble before he could throw off his attacker. Glancing to his left, Hunter saw Dylon with two wolves mauling him. As they fought on, the attackers drew them from the elevator, exposing them to others.
Slashing, ripping and tearing, Hunter continued, finally making some headway through the sea of bloodthirsty attackers. Dropping his latest adversary at his feet after ripping out his throat, Hunter caught a glimpse of Dylon,using his Herculean strength, to cut a swathe through a cadre of snarling wolves, leaving a pile of bodies behind him as he advanced. Turning around, he found Fionn still in the elevator, his face frozen in fear at the sight in front of him.
Desperate to get back to his mate, Hunter picked up a dead wolf in front of him and swung him like a club, knocking down several attackers. Tossing him aside, he then headed back into the elevator, but before reaching it, he saw his mate crumpled on the floor and a wolf standing over him holding a hypodermic needle. “NOOO! DYLON, GET FIONN!”
Hunter felt four attackers jump him, dragging him down to the floor. Frantic with worry about his mate, he suddenly realized there was only one way out of this if he wanted to rescue Fionn. “White…” but before he could say ‘Knight’, Hunter’s world went black.
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Hearing Hunter shout, Dylon ripped out the throat of his attacker. Then, turning toward Fionn, he quickly sized up what was happening. Rushing into the elevator, he grabbed the wolf bending over Fionn, lifted him off the floor, snapped his neck and, after tossing him aside, hit the ‘close-door’ button. As Dylon lifted Fionn from the floor and threw him over his shoulder, Cody became visible next to him. “Where’s Hunter?” he asked.
“Four attackers...one of them had a hypodermic needle and used it on him,” his mate said. “I couldn’t break through the ring of wolves around him, so I jumped in the elevator just before you closed the door.”
“Grab the needle from that asshole, will you?” Dylon said, tipping his head at the dead wolf on the floor. “Maybe Ian will be able to tell what they used.” Then hepunched the button for the parking garage after which, he used his phone to text their driver to meet them there.
“What about Hunter?” Cody asked, as the elevator descended. “Are we going back for him?”
“Yeah, but not until Fionn’s safe and on his way back to Jackson,” Dylon said, as the doors opened. Exiting the elevator, Dylon spotted their car pulling up for them. “Get in babe,” he said, laying Fionn down on the back seat before climbing in himself. Giving the driver an address, he turned his attention to the white dragon, sighing in relief when he discovered a pulse. “Robert will be waiting for us close by, so as soon as you and Fionn are aloft, I’ll head back to get Hunter.”
