I was done waiting around, done looking at books that had nothing in them.
I wanted to get my mate back.
“Fine,” Elias growled, shaking his head. “What about you, demon?”
Rhadamanthus sighed. “I would much rather join you in hunting our enemy and locating our Queen.”
I looked from Wolfy to the demon and nodded once. “Then it’s settled?—”
“I apologise, but one of the sensors just alerted us to a shift in the earth,” the general announced, entering the room with a blank expression, comms device held high. His appearance made the map on the table go off; lights surrounding the beach and possible tunnel started flickering, as did sensors around the top of the mountain.
“What the fuck is that?” Elias muttered, stalking towards the table.
I was locked in place as I tore my eyes from the map to the general. “What’s happening?”
“If we had an elemental witch out there, I supposed they would be telling us there has been an earthquake,” the general replied. “Not natural. Magical.”
“The Primal,” Elias said, looking up. I glanced at him with a frown. “He has earth powers. If anyone is going to be causing a quake, it might be him.”
Something that felt a little like hope lodged in my throat. “Could we finally have her?” I asked quietly, heart racing.
Elias met my stare. “Maybe. Fuck, I hope so.”
“Then we need to leave now, before we lose them,” Rhadamanthus stated. “Before he takes her again.”
46
Adrian
You shot my mate, I screamed over and over again, hoping it pained Dante as much as it hurt me.
I’d watched him raise the gun.
I’d watched him pull the trigger.
I’d watched as the bullet went into her shoulder.
And I’d felt it all like it was happening to me, too.
I knew I wasn’t just screaming inside his head, not when I felt the cold touch of someone else trying to get my attention.
I will be the one to kill you,I promised him, watching through his eyes as he stumbled out of the darkness into the hell that was his own making. There were soldiers everywhere, but he was more focused on his stupid skull to care. I stopped him from opening his mouth, from warning his guards that they were escaping.
By my hands,I added,you will suffer. You will wish you were dead. I will make it so much worse for you.
I felt him try to shove me out of his head, but I dug my fingers in more. I didn’t want to leave him just yet. I wanted to see more, wanted to know where he kept the skull, where he was hiding.
Through his eyes, I saw the traitor from Hawk’s team and felt sickness swell within me knowing he had betrayed us. Hadlikely been working with Dante since we met. And we’d allowed him to get close to us—to Ivy.
Knowing what Hawk was now, I couldn’t be surprised that Dante wanted him. A wraith. Fuck, it was lucky Ivy had gotten to him when she did.
I dug myself in deeper, as much as it physically and mentally pained me to do so. Inside Dante’s mind, there were blocks, thousands of them. And yet, they were weak, falling apart, no longer as strong as they should have been.
I saw a flash of stone; a face carved into it. Male, Fae. Felt the fleeting sense of adoration and shame. Then a name.Emris.
Another flash. I tried to pull this one free, but it slipped out of my grasp before I got more thanOrderfrom it.
Despite the rush of creatures trying to help him, Dante waved them all off as he entered an elevator. No one else followed, no soul dared. It was clear they were worried.
