Page 60 of Red Moon Secrets
No. No. No.
Kane's jaw tenses, and Chaz materializes with Amy in tow, making me almost crunch my teeth in two.
"I've got her right here," Chaz says, carrying her sheet-wrapped body toward them.
"You betraying bas—"
Gage clamps his hand over my mouth, holding me steady and muffling the rest of my words. I struggle, but it's in vain. I almost wish there was a red moon out right now.
"How many of them knew?" A woman in white asks as she materializes to join us.
I've seen her before. She's on the light council.
"As far as I can tell, just the coven was aware—the three night stalkers and the other lycan. Alyssa Coldwell was unaware. Gage is Somage. He would have reported it himself if he had known."
Gage presses his hand harder against my mouth as I beg to tell the truth. Kane tenses, but he doesn't waver or cower.
"And the incubus?" she asks, glancing over to Dice who is concreted to his spot.
"Unaware. He's as new to the group as the rest. The coven kept this very secretive for obvious reasons."
"Very well. You did good. Now, get them out of here while we take care of this."
Chaz walks toward me. That's very dangerous to do right now.
My power starts stirring. I can't let them take Kane. I won't.
Just as they walk toward him, my eyes catch the blurring of everything around me, and the arms around my waist grip tighter as we barrel through the different planes. When we materialize in a field, I release a shot of power, but Gage dodges it, shaking his head.
Chaz appears with Dice, and I lash out, throwing orb after orb, inviting the dark high to come in. But it never does. The one time I want it, it leaves me abandoned.
Chaz manages to successfully avoid each of my frenzied attacks, and Gage finally throws up a force field, halting anything else I throw from even coming close to reaching them.
"Calm the fuck down!" Chaz blares, as if he has a right.
"Calm down? Seriously? Calm down?" I ask incredulously. "You just sent my boyfriend to the fucking council on a silver platter. They'll kill him, you stupid son of a bitch!"
I try to crack through Gage's force field, but it holds steady. I need my darkness. Where the hell is it?
"I had no choice," Chaz says, sounding exasperated. "If I hadn't turned him over, they would have known you all knew. Then they would have arrested you. They've already got the damn dark angel. It wouldn't have posed them a problem to take you if they managed to take him. Do you know what would happen if they saw your true fey origins? They'd fucking kill you. That's what they'd do. Then they'd go after your mother and Drackus. We're talking about a full scale war before it's over, Alyssa. Do you understand that? They wouldn't have believed me if I had told them no one from his coven knew about Amy. We'd all be in jail and there would be no one to break them out."
Dray? Shit. They've got Dray, too.
I take several deep breaths as I let his words resonate. "So you're going to help me?"
He rolls his eyes as if I'm stupid.
"Of course I'm going to help you."
Gage drops the force field when he feels me slowly calming down, but when he least suspects it, I knock him and Chaz both on their asses with a powerful shot. They fall to the ground with athud, and Dice cackles. I cut him a glare, and he smothers his laughter with his hand.
"We need to get out of here. Pine Shore would be better than staying here," Gage grumbles while climbing to his feet. "We need a fool-proof plan. Nothing rash."
I sigh out heavily while walking toward him. "How did they know? How did that lycan find us?"
Gage shrugs. "Is that what you want to focus on, or do you want to get to Pine Shore so we can form a plan? Because we can only do one thing at a time."
I'm almost tempted to strike him again, but instead, I pull him to me, ignoring the small spark between us. "Get us out of here."
