Page 191 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

I shake my head at Jax, forgetting where we are and what we’re talking about. Jax seems to have a way of doing that. A way of making me forget the bad stuff and to remember everything good that’s still here.

I look at Kai. “No. I’ve seen no one…” The guys sigh. But fragments of a fractured memory or dream cross my mind.

“Wait… I don’t know.” “Kiarra?” Kai pushes.

“I thought it was a dream.” Kane’s face flashes over me as he tells me he’s going to get me out. “He was trying to get me out. It might still just be a dream.”

“Someone might’ve caught him.” Kai shares a look with Rion before turning back to me.

“When was this?” he asks me.

“I don’t know, maybe a few days ago? I don’t exactly have a watch or window to guess.” I don’t even know how long it’s been since King took me, just that it’s felt endless.

“It’s okay. We might have a lead.” Kai gives the guys a hopeful look. “He might be still there. Draven is going to try later today. We’ll have more news then.”

I’m about to ask him more about this Draven person and what lead they have when Kai whips around, as if seeing something or someone. He stays in the spot for a few seconds longer before turning to us. A look of urgency slashed across his face.

“We have to go. There’s another attack.”

Wait, what? “Attack? What attack? Where are you?” They’re worrying about me, but I never got to ask them where they are or if they are safe.

Kai walks up to me, placing his hands on each side of my face. “We’re going to find you, and when we do, I’m never fucking letting you go. Get used to having five extremely possessive alphas around. We’ll be on top of every little move you make.”

“On top of, under, between… so many options.” Jax sends me a wink.

Kai places a kiss on the top of my head before stepping back.

“Wait. Are you safe? Maybe you should just focus on yourselves,” I tell them, but they look at me like I’ve lost it.

“Don’t be stupid, Princess.”

I narrow my eyes on my favorite dickhead. “Remember that promise of kicking someone’s ass when they’re annoying me…” I give Axel a look, reminding him of his promise.

He gives me a smirk. “I promise you can kiss my ass later. Right now, I need to go have play time with some ugly motherfuckers.”

“Kick. I said,kickyour ass. I won’t be kissing any part of you.”

His deep chuckle warms something inside me. “We both know that’s a lie. Those lips were made to wrap around my—”

“Enough!” Kai sends Axel a glare. “We need to get going, and working us up will do nothing but frustrate the hell out of us. Especially when all I want to do is fuckingholdher and not let her go.”

“Hold her? I want to do so much more than hold her. I’m going to fucking destroy every inch of her,” Jax tells him, looking straight at me with a savage look on his face.

Fuck. I was getting whiplash from their hot and crazy emotions.

Axel doesn’t let up, though. He comes over and tilts my chin up to him, running a thumb down my bottom lip.

“I fucking bite,” I warn him.

He smirks, leaning down, and his lips meet mine in a punishing kiss before he pulls back slightly.

“So do I,” he whispers, biting on my bottom lip, then dragging and sucking it, sending a bolt of lust straight to my core, making me wet.

Fucker.

Axel moves back, wearing a smug smirk. Before I get the chance to say anything, Kai is there. He leans down and gives me a slow, sensual kiss, pulling away far too quick for my liking, leaving me wanting more, and by the familiar tilt to his lips, he knows it.

“We’ll explain everything later.”

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