Page 30 of Twisted Lies
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The old warehouse looked as bad as Mikah had remembered it. It had been years since she’d been to the dilapidated port just outside of town. She should have known Shane would choose this location to hide out. It was far enough away from Twisted Tail that no one would pick up his scent while giving him the opportunity to spy on those coming and going.
“Do you think we should wait for the others to get here before we go in?” Carter whispered as he inched forward.
“No. We need to move now to make sure Jason is okay. Cam called in the cavalry, I’m sure they will be here soon.” Mikah flung the door of the warehouse open and marched inside. Her wolf stood on full alert, ready to take control. Ready to save her mate.
“I don’t like this,” Carter whispered.
“I know you’re here, Shane. Why don’t you come out so we can talk?” Mikah stepped further into the empty building, scanning the shadows of the large room.
“He’s behind that pillar,” her wolf announced.
“I see him. Do you see Jason anywhere?”she asked her wolf.
“His scent is coming from that corner over there, but I also smell silver. It’s everywhere.”
Mikah drew in a cautious breath. Her wolf was right, she was surrounded by silver, but it made no sense. The silver would make Shane weak as well.
She glanced down at Carter, wishing he would have waited another minute or two before he shifted to his wolf form. A soft whine slipped from his mouth when he gazed up at her, clearly bothered as much as she was by the scent of the deadly silver.
She shrugged and directed him to the far corner—the direction in which her wolf had pointed out to her. She would be the one to deal with Shane—just like she had in her dream.
“Did you think you could trick me, trying to mix up scents so I wouldn’t figure out that you brought someone with you?” Shane asked, stepping away from the pillar.
“What have you done?” she demanded.
“What have I done? You’re pretty funny, you know that? You’re the one running all over town acting like I never existed.”
“I thought you were dead. What did you want me to do?”Celebrate?she thought.
After the initial shock of seeing him dead, she thanked the lords above for ending her suffering, but she wasn’t about to say that out loud. Not until she knew that Jason was okay.
With a limp he tried to hide, Shane moved closer to where she stood. Anger grew in the pit of her stomach, heating her blood. The things he’d said to her in the past—the bullshit he’d put her through. No one deserved to be treated as horribly as he had treated her.
“I wanted you to search for me, to wait for me. At the very least, you could have mourned for me if you thought I was dead—as you claim. But you didn’t do any of that? Did you?”
Not a single fucking one of those things.
“You’re right, Shane. I didn’t mourn you. Fuck—I didn’t even miss you. I was thankful that you were gone. Is that what you wanted to hear?” Fury tore through Mikah, a growl rose from her throat. Her wolf waited for the command to take control and rip him limb from limb.
Finally, her reoccurring dreams of Shane started to make sense. She understood why he had attacked her.
Just as he had in the dream, Shane lunged for her throat, she easily avoided his grasp twisting to the left, countering him with a punch of her own to his throat.
His fist flew toward her face. She ducked and punched. This time, landing a blow directly to his ribs. A growl rose from his throat, but his moves never changed from her dreams. One of his hands had partially shifted to his wolf form. He swiped his claws at her stomach and missed. She raked her claws across his face, blood pouring down his neck.
Shane jumped back, away from Mikah. “Why do you have to be such a bitch? I’m clean now. I want to fix things between us. I’m the only one who can love you the way you deserve to be,” Shane argued.
“Love me? Are you fucking kidding me? What we had wasn’t love. It was you being a dick and treating me like shit because you felt like it. That’s not love.” The words from her dream poured from her mouth.
Shane lunged for her again. His hands wrapped around her throat, surprising her. Her dreams had never continued past the initial conversation. Panic tried to overtake the rage she had felt, but it failed. She would have been worried that she had underestimated her ex, yet she was as calm as could be—almost happy about the way the situation was playing out, especially when she saw Jason standing behind Shane. Their gazes met and a laugh flew from her mouth, surprising Shane.
“Do you think this is funny?” The pressure around her throat tightened.
She dug her nails into his arm and smiled. “I do. Because you’re about to die.”
Before he could register the power of her words, Jason had shifted to his wolf form and sprang onto Shane’s back. Shane howled out in pain as Jason sunk his fangs into his shoulder. Mikah stumbled away from the fray just as Carter lunged for Shane’s leg.
