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“We can do business, sir. It wasn’t necessary to bringhimwith you.”

I tensed. Who else was there?

“I didn’t. He invited himself,” was the dry reply.

“I was intrigued,” another voice said. He sounded cocky and completely unbothered by the warden’s reaction. I already didn’t like him just from the three words I heard, but as Brynn started to shake, he became enemy number one.

“T-that’s…he’s the one. The one who took me. He has dark Magic, Reeve. H-he, fuck, he used it on me.” Brynn started to shake between us, even as he struggled to maintain his composure. Composure I was quickly fucking losing, because…dark Magic? I knew shady shit was going on. I figured they weren’t getting these omegas legally, and when Brynn told us he was taken off the streets and a heat was forced on him, that obviously confirmed it. But it never clicked that dark Magic was used on him.

I was shaking with rage, and my wolf had enough freedom now that it was clawing and howling in my brain, hating the fact that our omega knew what it felt like to have dark Magic used against him. We all heard the stories, saw the movies and the news. One of Mom’s asshole boyfriends had told Rella a story once when she was eight about someone using dark Magic to force people to cut out their own organs. It terrified her, and she had nightmares for months.

He was full of shit, just trying to scare her, but there was some truth in his story and to think someone capable of that was involved and hurt our mate…I didn’t have the words to explain how it made me feel.

I was too focused on controlling my wolf and trying to comfort Brynn to really listen to what the guards were saying anymore. Reeve was hyper focused and had moved into a more defensive position, ready to stand in between us and the humans. Taking the cue from Reeve, I stood up, with Brynn, and pushed him partially behind me. It was then that I realized we were still naked, but I didn’t want to take the risk of getting our mate his clothes and taking my eye off the door.

Right before all hell broke loose, Reeve turned to me. “Can you feel your wolf?”

The question surprised me. It had been an unspoken agreement between us never to mention whatever was going on with our wolves. It felt too dangerous. I gave him a sharp nod in response.

“Do you think you can shift?”

Well that shocked me even more. I took a second to focus on my wolf. He was right there, more present than he had been in over ten years, even when they deactivated the collars.

I gave Reeve another sharp nod. “Yeah.”

Brynn’s eyes bounced back and forth between us, his expression curious and confused, but he didn’t ask any questions. Reeve’s lips twitched, fighting a smile then he locked the fuck in.

“Good. Brace yourselves. Shit’s about to get real.”

CHAPTER14

BRYNN

The alphas were aboutto do something reckless. They had some unspoken conversation with their eyes, and then locked in on the door. I felt kind of useless. I couldn’t shift, and Goddess knows I fucking tried. I was feisty, agile, and strong for an omega with no formal fighting training, but I was no match for a bunch of guards with weapons, and if I did try to fight, I’d probably just get in the twins’ way and make whatever plan they had harder.

Which meant I was once again cowering behind them. I was so fucking over this damsel in distress bullshit. My eyes scoured the room looking for a weapon, anything I could use to at least protect myself and allow Reeve and Riven to do their thing.

I’d come up empty when the door flew open, a wave of Magic behind it that had me stumbling back against the wall. Then I came face to face with the bastard who got me into this situation in the first place.

I wished I could say that I stared him down with no fear, gave him a big fuck you. But the second the tendrils of his insidious Magic touched my skin, since he seemed to instantly suffocate the room with it, I froze. Not literally this time, thank Goddess, but I was back there. Back in front of that abandoned building where I couldn’t move, could barely breathe, completely paralyzed as the darkness seeped through my bones. I slumped against the back wall, clawing at my throat, desperate for air that wasn’t tainted by this darkness.

My vision was hazy at the edges, and it was hard to focus on anything. The wolf howls snapped me out of my panic enough to get my first glimpse of Reeve and Riven’s midnight black wolves since that first night. They were beautiful.

That was the last thought I had before all hell broke loose. The guards were screaming, weapons drawn at the two wolves who shouldn’t have been there, but before anyone could shoot them, the guards slumped to the ground, clawing at their throats and screaming bloody murder. The mage must’ve done something to them, and now, with glowing eyes, he turned his attention to the twins. My mates.

They were both in an attack stance, positioned between me and everyone else. I wanted to tell them to worry about themselves, but the words wouldn’t come out, the tendrils of darkness once again leaving me helpless and paralyzed.

“Leopold, what are you doing?” the warden screamed, but I noticed he hadn’t entered the room. He was standing at the doorway, obviously smart enough to realize the second he walked in he’d be a victim of the mage’s Magic.

The mage, Leopold, smiled cruelly. He waved his hand, and the guard closest to him started to seize, then burst into fucking flames.

Tears fell down my face. This was the man who had captured me? Suddenly I realized how lucky I’d been. Just seeing what this man was capable of had me feeling sick. If I had control of my own body I’d be vomiting. The smell of burned flesh overpowering every other scent in this place.

The twins were going crazy, their jaws snapping as they snarled and growled, but neither were attacking. It was too much of a risk. With just a wave of a hand, they could become nothing but a pile of ash.

“I’d think carefully before you make another move,Hollinger,” Leopold sneered. “Wouldn’t want my hand to slip.”

The warden hissed but wisely didn’t move. No other guards entered the room, and I couldn’t get eyes on the guy who was supposed to buy me. Did he know what this psychopath was going to do?

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