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Bones screaming…
Beast raging…
The growl that built in me was deafening. I curled into myself, struggling to hold back the thing inside me. I did my best to regain my composure in the aftermath of the blast, but it was fucking difficult.
Screaming…
Breaking…
Crying…
“Genevieve!” I yelled—was I yelling? Fuck, I couldn’t tell over the goddamn ringing.
“I got her!” Cade’s voice was muffled, but I heard him. That was a fucking plus.
I managed to push off the ground in time to see the light fading from Finn’s body. The kid was the only thing that hadn’t moved in the entire building. Even the ceiling was fucking gone—blown to kingdom come.
And more notably, Sadie was fucking gone.
“Sorry,” Finn said but not a single one of us fucking bothered to reply. It wasn’t the time to deal with whatever the fuck the kid was. Magical? Yes. What kind of magic? Who the fuck knew?
Lane swore profusely as he kicked off the legs of Nolan’s chair. Nolan’s chair had tipped over on the floor with him unconscious. Declan worked alongside him to take apart the entire chair from underneath the kid.
“We need to get him the fuck out of here,” Lane snapped. He yanked off another leg. “He won’t make it much longer if we don’t. Watch his breathing. I need to know if it gets worse.”
“Yeah,” Lucas answered shakily.
Nearby, Cade helped Genevieve to her feet. The minute she was within arm’s reach, I pulled her closer and inspected every goddamn inch of her. She was shaking, visibly distressed, but otherwise physically okay.
“Are you okay?” I demanded.
“Nolan! What about—”
“Nolan is being taken care of,” I interrupted. Grabbing her face, I forced her to look at me. “Are you okay, Genevieve?”
She nodded rapidly, eyes wide as she glanced around the fucking room. God, she was all over the place—a deer in fucking headlights.
“Gabby? Where the fuck is Gabby?” I asked, my head snapping around.
“Pissed off and right here,” Gabby growled. I caught sight of her climbing out of a fucking freezer. “If you don’t fucking kill her, I will.”
“Get your sister out of here,” I ordered instead. I’d deal with her angry ass later if I had to. Right now, I only cared about three things: saving Nolan, getting Genevieve out of there, and killing Sadie.
Nothing else mattered.
“Come here,” Gabby said, her tone significantly gentler as she took Genevieve by the shoulders.
“Get out.” I kissed my wife once—short and simple. “I’ll find you when I can. Cade, with me.”
With that, I walked away. Declan and Lane almost had Nolan out of the chair. I went straight for Finn, shaking him hard out of his stupor.
“Hey!” I asked. “Where did she go?”
“Who?” Finn whispered.
“The hunter, kid. Where did she go?”
“Out the fucking building that way.” Lane pointed over his shoulder. “She’s running because she didn’t fucking count on him. That’s what I’d do with an unknown variable. Regroup and return.”
