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“Yeah,” he asked, leaning his elbows on his knees and raking a hand through his hair.

“Do not hurt the pregnant human.”

He hung up.

No one could ask anything of him right now. If Ari or Vincent had Sage or Kate taken from them, they’d be far less controlled than he was being.

Brayden clicked on the video as the plane finally lifted into the air and let it play. Fury slammed into him as the first images of Willow holding Isabella against her chest inside the cage appeared.

His hand crushed the arm of the seat as Nikolay began speaking.

“I have something that belongs to you.” The asshole smiled as Willow bounced their baby girl, trying to calm her.

“Fuck,” Brayden cursed, gritting his teeth.

His mate.

Willow and his sweet baby girl.

That asshole had them locked up in the tungsten cell, where none of them could reach.

Ari said they had a plan, but Brayden had to do what needed to be done, regardless.

“Call off the feds’ destruction of our properties and you will get her back.”

“You have twenty-four hours, or I will kill them both,” Nikolay said in the video Vincent had received just hours before Brayden had called the Russian.

Brayden stared straight ahead as the private jet flew through the air, planning all the ways he was going to kill Nikolay.

Painfully.

As for Elizabeth, he’d do whatever was required to free the woman he loved and his daughter.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

Brooklyn sat on the end of Sage and Ari’s sofa and chewed her bottom lip. They wanted her to go to Seattle, into BioZen, and help them get access to the secret vault that Willow Moretti was being kept in.

The one she’d never known had existed.

“I could go with her,” Brianna said, her eyes red as if she had been crying for days.

Sage had told her that Brianna and Willow were best friends, so she really felt for her.

If it had been Belinda, she’d have done anything for her. But walking into a dangerous situation with the Russian mafia and deadly vampires?

Um, that might be a little beyond her skill set.

Where was Logan? She was sure he would have followed her earlier, but he hadn’t.

“We could pretend I wanted to be a scientist, and she was showing me around the place.” Brianna shrugged.

“Brooklyn doesn’t work there anymore. Plus, you can’t go in there during the daylight any more than we can,” Ari said. “And Craig would castrate me if I let you go.”

“It’s not his call,” Brianna snapped.

Sage rubbed the female’s leg affectionately.

“If we can get you inside, then we can get our vampires in there,” Ari told her, ignoring Brianna. “Sage is the only one who knows how to navigate to the classified location. So Brooklyn, you are the next best thing. And human.”

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