Page 122 of Big Knot Energy (Shadowverse)

Who the hell was this? I didn’t recognize the scent, but he was an alpha if I was correct about his size and the signature floating around him and into my nostrils.

“Issa!” Amir bellowed, crawling through the open door and reaching for me as Abdel lunged from his side and positioned himself directly in front of my omega.

Good. At least my love would be safe, no matter what happened after I was dragged away from him.

“I love you,” I whimpered as I was dragged backward to a car parked perpendicular to the driveway. My driveway.Ourdriveway.

I wanted to take a moment to memorize the outside of the house,to stare into Amir’s beautiful green eyes, to soak up every bit of his presence as I could before I died.

Because I had no doubt I wouldn’t live much longer once Antonio and the thug behind me drove me away from the only place, the only people, where I’d truly felt was home.

Amir’s face crumpled as tears rushed down his cheeks, his arm outstretched as though reaching for me.

He knew he couldn’t get to me. Knew there was no way to get to me without one or both of us dying right here in the driveway. Then our alphas would lose us both in one night. They would come home to us dead in the driveway.

I didn’t want to leave him. I didn’t want to say goodbye to my alphas. But there was a small part of me that was happy they’d intentionally sought an omega just for me. They’d fallen as hard for him as I had.

They would still have him once I was gone, once I was dead and buried.

Nothing more than a memory.

Those trembles that had started when my brain caught up to the situation continued to make me feel as though the ground itself was shaking below me. My heart thundered painfully behind my ribs as the asshole behind me kept that same iron grip around me until I was tossed into the passenger seat.

Not the backseat. They must not have been worried I would dive from car first chance I got as if I was some kind of daredevil who could tuck and roll on the highway like a stuntwoman.

The other alpha climbed into the backseat, a gun appearing in my periphery and aiming at Amir and Abdel as Antonio settled behind the wheel, the engine humming softly, and hit the gas so hard the tires squealed against the asphalt.

My stomach lurched with my body as I was pushed against the seat with the speed my former alpha was driving.

I didn’t bother with the seatbelt. If we crashed and I died…that had to be a better death than anything Antonio had planned.

“What was the point of the mask? They’ll know it was you,” I said,my voice breathy and holding a tremor as the fear and unknown of my immediate future forced blood to whoosh in my ears and adrenaline to burn through my veins.

“Plausible deniability,” the asshole in the back said with a chuckle.

I turned and glared at him as he pulled the mask off his face. I still didn’t recognize him, even with his face uncovered.

Looking at Antonio’s profile, I pushed the fear aside and smiled. “They’ll find you. They’re going to hunt you down and kill you. Doesn’t matter whether I live or die. They’re all going to kill you. My pack. Cora’s pack–”

His arm whipped out and his hand cracked against my lips. They throbbed with my heartbeat, and I could taste the coppery tang of blood, but he hadn’t loosened any teeth, merely split my lip. That was nothing compared to how he used to treat me.

Spitting the blood welling in my mouth onto the floorboard, I swiped the back of my arm across my lips.

Fuck him. I would never again allow him to see a moment of weakness from me.

As he continued to speed away from my house, my only true home, my family, and pulled the sedan onto the on-ramp for the highway, a buzzing started in my back.

Not in my back.Againstmy back.

I’d been right; Amir had slipped his phone into my pants as though he’d known Antonio would demand I leave mine behind.

And why wouldn’t he? It would have been so easy for my alphas to track me, to track my phone.

Just like they would be tracking Amir’s.

A flood of emotions rushed over me and through me. They were not only coming from my own hope that Ax, Cyrus, and Enzo would find me before it was too late, but the rage and reassurances pouring through me from my pack.

They were coming for me. Just like I’d thought before, my alphas, my pack, my family would burn the planet to the ground to find me.

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