Page 57 of Dark & Dreadful Brutes

Slowly, the crowd’s roaring quieted.

Nissa looked at me.

I had no idea what was wrong with Kaelle, but everyone was staring at us. If we didn’t do something fighting-related, they were going to get mad. And then they were going to get suspicious.

I shrugged at Nissa, and lifted my sword.

She did the same.

Before we could take a swing at each other, Kaelle whispered, “He’s here.”

Her magic whipped around all of us, but I paid no attention to the way it slapped my skin.

The crowd was silent.

“Who?” I asked her.

She breathed, “One of the assassins. I can feel him.”

Nissa’s eyes went wide. “How can you feel him? How do you know?”

“I see and feel auras,” Kaelle admitted. “My wind comes from them. And his aura is terrible.”

Ravv demanded to know what was going on again, but I didn’t answer him.

My confidence was draining away, my body starting to freeze up the way it had when I was captured in the Sands.

The fear hit me hard—so hard I could barely breathe.

“What are you waiting for?” Ravv shouted from the stands. Kaelle’s wind was so loud he couldn’t hear us. He didn’t know there was an assassin there—he didn’t know he needed to run.

“What do we do?” Nissa demanded.

“I don’t know.” Kaelle looked just as terrified as I felt.

I tried to shove my fear away to talk to Ravv, to get him out of there, but couldn’t make my mind connect with his.

“We need to get everyone out,” I finally told them, my desperation swelling. My arms were already steaming; soon, they’d be flaming.

“Oh, it’s far too late for that,” a sexy male voice purred. A man appeared next to Kaelle, and I jerked away, stumbling backward. “Which one of you is connected to Kier Jirev?”

The man was gorgeous, with tan skin and wavy dark hair, and he had to be at least a little bigger than the fae kings.

Despite his beauty, his eyes were glowing red, and his lips lifted in a wicked grin.

He was looking for Kier… which meant he wasn’t the Demon hunting Ravv.

But veil, he was still right in front of us.

“The Beast of the Endless Wilds,” I whispered.

I didn’t hear a peep from the stands.

“Get out now,” Ravv snarled into my mind, but I didn’t move.

I couldn’t move.

The Beast’s grin widened, flashing me a glimpse of his fangs. “Hello, sweetheart. Is Kier using your magic to hide his?”

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