Page 98 of Tempest of Wrath and Vengeance

“Yep,” Brecken answered in a bored tone.

“Element?”

“Wind.”

That was definitely excitement that filled the male’s features as he sauntered closer. It took everything in her not to reactwhen he skated his fingertips up the column of her throat before sliding his thumb along her bottom lip.

“I suppose that means I’ll be seeing you real soon,” he said, his tone low and rough.

“She has to be processed first, Arlo,” Brecken said.

“Where’d you find her?” the male asked, stepping closer still and twirling a piece of her hair around his finger.

“Falein Estate.”

Arlo glanced up at him. “No luck with Anala yet?”

Brecken rolled his eyes. “Kyra has her Kingdom and Estate locked down tighter than the Keeper has the center of the Pantheon locked down.”

Arlo snickered. “Supposedly they’re making progress on that.”

“Until then, I’ll keep finding Raye’s,” Brecken said with a shrug. “But I’ve got to get going,” he added, tugging on Tessa’s arm.

She stumbled, and Arlo let out a huff of laughter, slapping her ass as she was dragged past him.

“Easy, Tessa,” Brecken murmured out of the corner of his mouth. “Save it.”

She curled her fingers, hiding the power sparking there. Thankfully, she was still wearing the coat so the bands on her wrists had been hidden from the Legacy.

A minute later, Brecken was ushering her into a decent-sized office.

An empty office.

The moment the door closed, he said, “Go find what you can. I’ll stand guard.”

“What?”

He jerked his chin at the desk. “I can’t tell you where to look. Find what you can. I don’t know how long we have. Could be minutes; could be an hour.”

Uncertain of what exactly was happening, Tessa made her way to the desk. The office itself was fairly sparse. A map of the realm on the wall. A book detailing magic on the shelf. A tablet in the center of the desk.

She tapped it, the screen illuminating and asking for a password. She looked up at Brecken with a questioning look.

He rolled his eyes. “I don’t know it, Tessa, but if you can get past wards you’re not supposed to, surely you can break into a tablet, no?”

She’d never thought of it that way before.

Fingers hovering over the screen, she focused on letting out a sliver of her power. Too much and she would surely make the thing explode.

It took far more energy than it should have to make sure only a small amount of her power emerged, but she managed it. And to her utter shock, the home screen displayed.

“Holy shit,” she muttered.

Brecken said something, but she didn’t hear him as she picked up the tablet and clicked on the only program on the screen. It was labeled Hybrid. A list of names appeared she couldn’t make any sense of, so she clicked on a random one.

Name: Meera Koplin

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