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“He won’t live long enough to get out,” Reyes answered nonchalantly.
My brows furrowed and I began to recount all those who had been ordered into the prison. He couldn’t possibly mean for them all to die. Did he not value the life of others?
It was all too clear why his subjects were terrified of him. I sat through all of it, doing whatever I could to keep my mouth shut and not bolt from the room.
I was aware Reyes could sense my inner turmoil, but that was never going to be an act. His hand began to stroke my thigh through the thin tulle material of the gown.
I concentrated on the motion, doing pretty well until an older man came forward.
The information he began to relay had my stomach dropping to the floor.
“There is a rouge pair of alpha lycans that have been spotted on the lands, Sire. From the region of Zenith, they are quite large and strong. Already he has quarreled with Lady Diana’s pack and Xavier's brood.”
“How interesting,” Hades nearly purred. “Does our queen happen to know any suicidal lycans from Zenith?”
“I know hundreds of lycans from Zenith. Do you happen to know why two lycans would take a trip to hell?” I shot back just as casually.
His amber eyes lit up, and a feral grin spread across his marred face. “Oh, is that a backbone? She’s much better this way.”
I didn’t give a damn what he thought of me, but I knew some response was better than none.
I curbed my panic into irritation, which wasn’t hard to do.
Why would Toby and James have stayed here all this time? Hades was correct in calling them suicidal.
“Do you happen to know these lycans’ names?” Reyes continued his line of questioning.
“Yes. One is Toby!” the old man shouted, right before he crumpled to the floor, screaming in pain and clutching his skull.
I damn near jumped out of my skin, watching in horror as blood began to stream from his every visible orifice.
“What's wrong with…” I stopped talking when I looked over.
Reyes was staring at the man intently; his eyes lit up as if they were flames.
Something akin to fear came over me as I realized he was doing this with his mind, not lifting a single finger.
He didn’t let up until the man was severely convulsing on the floor in a puddle of his own blood.
When he finally stopped twitching, it was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop.
“Feed on his corpse if you wish, and then clean this up!” Reyes demanded.
My stomach rolled and a sour taste flooded my mouth when a few of the guards moved from their positions to the man on the floor. Shifters’ teeth elongated, vampire fangs doing the same.
They fell upon the man and fed off him like a pack of wild dogs. They ate as if they were starving when I knew for a fact they weren’t, snapping limbs from tendons and crunching bone.
Watching them made it hard to believe there had ever once been a vampire hierarchy before the depires had brutally wiped it out.
“Wait!” Reyes voiced after another minute or two. “Why is it I wasn’t alerted about these trespassers?”
A shifter was the first to gain control of his baser urges. He looked to Reyes with a blood-smeared face. Skin stuck between his teeth.
“We didn’t think they were—”
He suddenly doubled over, a low whine spilling from his mouth a second before everything he’d just devoured expelled back out, chunks of intestine spilling on his booted feet in a waterfall of vomit.
“That’s right. You didn’t think!”
His hand clenched around mine so tightly, the bones ground together.
At the same time, a vampire’s neck twisted so sharply to the right, it came off.
The air was saturated in fear, the guards against the wall sweating bullets, the ones that had been feasting terrified they’d suffer Reyes’ rage next. Dylan and Wesley were amongst them.
My stomach revolted at the mess in the room.
I stared at the supes covered in blood and organs. There was no reason for them to feed off this corpse.
They were savages.
But they were my savages, now.
I tore my hand from Reyes, ignoring the way it throbbed as I forced his arm away and rose to my feet. “Are you fucking insane?” I yelled at him, whirling around.
I looked at the men, now all kneeling in hopes it would grant them mercy.
“All of you get out!”
They reacted to the command instantly, Dylan and Wesley included, but much slower than the others.
When I turned back around, the look in Reyes' eyes almost had me following right behind them. I held his gaze, barely aware of his brothers making a joke as they took leave as well.
Only the two of us remaining, his eyes flashed before my own and returned to their normal color.
