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“Roslyn, don’t do it. Stay here. Let’s discuss—”
I’m slammed back into the tree hard enough to make it split from base to tip, and I lose my breath when her power crushes against my chest.
“Discuss what, Thad? How your boys are doing all they can to hit me with their magic right now but can’t seem to use their power? You’re not the only ones who can fix up a trap in a hurry. You’re not the only ones who know tricks like that. Or do you want to discuss what I did to survive the last six months I was in the rings? What I had to do in order to keep breathing? Would it make it easier to kill me?”
I glare over at Gage and Zee who both have the grace to avoid my eyes. I’ll deal with them later.
Sadie grabs Roslyn’s foot, weakly begging her to go, but Roslyn kneels, placing a hand on her mother’s face as she keeps us all at her mercy.
“Let’s get you somewhere safe, Momma,” Roslyn whispers, and before I can do anything to stop them, they’re dematerializing as my world crashes down around me.
“NO!” I roar, launching myself away from the tree as soon as the hold disappears.
Gage disappears as Zee comes up behind me. “Thad, I was just trying to knock her out. I wasn’t going to hurt her. I thought she was going to kill us.”
My fist connects with his face when I spin around, crunching bone on bone, and he curses while staggering backwards and pouring blood from his nose.
“Fuck,” he growls, glaring at me over his hands as he cups his wound. “I get being pissed, but we need to get back. This is sort of big, and the others need to know.”
“Why?” I snap. “So they can hunt my girl and kill her for protecting her mother?”
He glares at me. “No. It’s because it’s possible Alyssa was right and singling out Sadie has fucked up all our other leads. Sadie’s motives make sense now. She wanted those rings destroyed because they want her daughter. You saw it. She loves Roslyn. She would have died to protect her instead of asking her to save her. She came to us out of desperation, because she knew we wanted the rings destroyed too. And now we know why she did that spell on Roslyn. We need to get back.”
I curse while slamming my fist into the split tree, causing it to finally fall in two different directions when the halves break apart. Zee disappears, and I crack my neck to the side just before Gage reappears.
“She didn’t leave a trail in the planes. Fuck! Why didn’t Reese tell us?” Gage barks. “How did she stop our powers?”
Right now, I want to hit him as much as I wanted to hit Zee. I walk away instead. Actually, I shift, shedding my clothes in the process, and take flight as soon as my wings have formed.
&nbs
p; No way in hell can I ride back with them without killing someone.
Chapter 31
ROSLYN
My tears continue falling as I pace the room of a cabin Momma made me bring her to. Her breathing is labored, and I claw at my skin as panic sets in. She’s been out for the past twenty minutes as I launched us as far away and as fast as I could.
It looks like she’s been here for a while, considering all the furnishings. So how did she get in that other cabin?
Her phone rings from the living room, and I rush to it to answer, juggling it with unsteady hands to answer a call from “L.”
“Hello?” I croak, battling the tears that are falling harder.
“Sadie? Thank God. You have to get out of there. Somehow Alyssa’s people found you, and it’s not the ones you want to deal with. Dice just sent me a message to warn me. They put him under a sleeper spell, so that has to mean they’re coming for you. Get out now!”
I sob into the phone, feeling betrayed and confused. I thought Thad was one of the good guys, but they’re just like the monsters I hate myself for being.
“Who is this?” the woman on the other line asks when I fail to form words.
“Roslyn. I’m her daughter,” I manage to choke out.
Silence fills the other line, and the woman takes a deep breath, as though she’s trying to steady her nerves.
“Where is she?”
Like I’m going to tell some stranger where to find her. I’m not stupid enough to fall for that.
