So I did. I moved forward, casting one last look behind before taking the last turn to wait for them in front of the military district’s gate.
I let my body slide along the wall until my ass met the ground, waiting. Either for them to arrive or for someone to open the smaller door in the huge closed gate for me to slip inside, whichever came first.
Kai must have had a lot to say to them because I only got inside ten minutes later when a group of guards came out for their rounds.
Was I making a mistake? Standing there, in the middle of the large circle surrounded by buildings, I started to question my idea.
What if I got all four of us hurt or captured? Dimitri and Arc weren’t able to free anyone. It took Dimitri almost two weeks to escape, and Arc was still there. No matter what the tracking device said about my powers, I was not nearly as powerful as any of them. My Phoenix’s abilities were long gone, leaving me trapped inside a lower demon body. Sure, I was strong. Especially now, filled with so much of my mate’s energy begging to be let out. But my fighting was rusty, and I would need to depend a lot on my emotion enhancing powers.
Maybe I could actually do a lot of damage. After all, what good were guards if they were left crying in fear in a corner, trapped in their own minds? But Arc should have already taken care of a part of them by turning the Hellriser ones into dust. Had he? Would I only face humans and Divines?
I looked around, spotting the large warehouse-like building next to the huge gate leading outside.
And the small side door was open.
My steps were quiet as I walked toward it, avoiding the few guards walking around and talking in the large open space, and shimmied my way through the small opening.
Wow.
Who knew this camp hadso manycars and trucks? Hundreds of armored vehicles were parked in neat rows over two floors. I stayed invisible even though no one was inside, looking at the walls around in search of potential security cameras.
I stilled in the middle of the room when whispers reached me. Savi, Francesca, and Marcus were stepping inside, closing the door softly behind them. The girls were trying to sign to him and he was growing more and more agitated, whisper-yelling at them.
“Stop moving your fingers so fuckingfastwill you? Lola iswhat?”
I let go of my invisibility and materialized before them. Marcusshrieked.
Okay, that was hilarious.
“Forfuck’ssakes, woman! Give a warning before you do something like that!”
“What did Kai want?” I asked, ignoring his outburst. “You guys took time to get here.”
Marcus mumbled something under his breath, darting away to inspect the cars.
“Let it go,” Francesca signed with a sad look.
“Going outside is a big deal for Marcus,” Savi added. “Kai didn’t hold us long. Marcus just needed a moment to freak out without you around.”
My face fell.
His lovers had been taken.
I sighed. “I shouldn’t have asked him.”
Francesca laid her hand on my shoulder with a reassuring smile.
“No, you were right to come to him,”Savi signed. “To us. We’ll get there, get in, free the prisoners, and get out. Marcus just needed a moment.”
I looked over my shoulder as he walked between cars, checking the windows with focused eyes.
Francesca poked my shoulder, catching my attention before she signed, “Come, we’ll get some weapons.”
They led me to a little storage door to the side and we went inside as the neon light blinked to life.
Savi handed me a black double thigh holster attached to a belt and some sort of harness, indicating for me to put it on. Once perfectly strapped in, they both gave me an array of different weapons; knives of all forms and sizes, guns, and magazines.
“Why are we taking all these?” I asked after she handed me the tenth ammunition storage. “I mean, I’d understand why you’d need them, but Marcus and I are demons…We can just use—”
