She rolled her eyes, as if bored of his juvenile behavior. “Well, don’t mess anything up. Two more weeks and you’ll be the new Greywolf King.”
The air rushed out of me. I wasn’t sure it was possible, but I froze even more than I already was.
“New Greywolf King?” I muttered, unable to refrain from taking the bait.
Lora’s lips curled but the smile didn’t reach her eyes; she was clearly dead inside. Nothing made that woman happy, I was sure of it. She slowly stepped closer to me, her long billowy powder-blue dress skimming the floor. Her curly hair fell in loose waves at her side; the tips of her fae ears pointed out.
“After two centuries, I finally found a way to transfer Brayden’s power to Silas.” She grinned and then leaned forward and stroked an amulet at Silas’ throat. I hadn’t noticed it before because I tried to avoid looking at the ugly bastard at all times, but now that I honed in on it, I felt magic radiating from it.
“No!” Natalie screamed, bucking against the magical hold over her. The bands at her wrists glowed and Lora’s eyes flared silver. The Fae Lord tipped her head back and laughed at Natalie’s outburst.
“Yes,” Lora snapped back. “By the time the end of fight rolls around, your brother will be dead and all power will come through Silas, thenewWolf King.”
Now it was my turn to laugh. I probably shouldn’t have but I knew she needed me alive for the fight and so I tested the waters. “You’ll never kill Brayden without the full power of a Greywolf. My measly ten percent won’t be enough.” Now it was my turn to bait her.
If I could get her to release my full power, I would be able to use itagainstSilas in the fight. I’d learned something about the bastard who’d kept me captive all this time.He was weak. Mentally, he didn’t have what it took to wield my power, and when he slept I was able to steal it back from him. Even in the park when he was awake I could pull a small bit. Something Natalie, Castiel, and the others were not able to do when the Fae Lords slept.
Lora’s glare was hair-raising. “Brayden is a wolf withoutanyGreywolf power. So your measly ten percent should be just fine.”
She turned to walk away and I decided to poke her deeper.
“Ishe without Greywolf power?” I asked, planting the seed of doubt within her mind and she froze. “I mean, my spell is clearly wearing off, so I wonder if his is too…”
I knew that my spell was gone because Wren had pulled it off but she didn’t know that. I let that question linger in the air but I knew I’d taken it too far even before the wall of power slammed into me, throwing me backward into the coffee table. I tripped over it, crashed into Axel’s wolf, and then hit the wall.
Silas laughed, and then they both left, breaking their hold over all of us.
Maddy ran to my side as the sound of snapping bones filled the room; the boys were shifting back to human. “You shouldn’t taunt her. She’ll kill you.”
‘I know what you’re doing.’Natalie spoke into my mind and my gaze flicked to hers. She had a special affinity for mind speaking, and it seemed that in a mild form they were all able to use their powers down here, so long as the Fae Lords weren’t pulling on them at the time.
‘You’re trying to get her to give you full power so that you can wield it against Silas in the fight through the bracelets.’
I nodded, unsure if she was speaking just into my mind or everyone’s. By the body language of the others, she had just said that to us all. One by one, they perked up and looked my way. Axel, Castiel and Gabe left the room fully naked with their hands covering their junk and returned wearing clothes.
“Tell me he’s never forced himself on you,” Axel growled to me when he entered.
“I’ll kill him,” Castiel said.
“I’llcastratehim first,” Gabe agreed.
I put my hands out in an effort to calm them. “He’s never… no. He likes to mess with me but he’s never gone too far.”
Which wasn’t true. A single finger to my collarbone was too far already, but I didn’t want to upset them further.
They all seemed to relax at my reassurance.
‘Do you really think you can pull your power back from Silas if Lora gives you full power?’Natalie couldn’t let my idea go. She was staring at me with a mixture of fear and excitement.
Everyone looked to me then and I knew she’d broadcasted that to all of their minds.
I nodded. “He’s weak,” I spat, thinking of all the times Maddy and I had pushed him to the snapping point. All we had to do was attack his ego and anger him and his power dimmed. Or he lashed out with it. But he was easy to manipulate.
The side of Natalie’s mouth quirked up. “I have an idea.”
One by one they rushed forward, grasping hands in a circle. Natalie looked back at me and nodded me over with her head so that she could link our minds. She didn’t seem to need to hold our hand to talk to us one on one, but if we all wanted to talk to each other, we needed physical contact.
‘Please tell me your plan involves finally busting us out of here,’Castiel asked her. His voice sounded out in all of our heads.
