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I made my way through and found the sobbing mother frantically slogging her way through the water, looking for her daughter. When she caught sight of the little girl waving at her from my arms, relief and joy exploded across the desperate mother’s face. She gently took Jill from my arms and cradled her against her chest.
“Thank you.” The words were barely intelligible between her sobs, but I knew what she meant.
I made my way down the street, allowing the pull of the mate bond to guide me to my men.
I tried to reach out and create a mental link with Storm or Eason, like I had with Fynn, but I was met with silence. I hoped it was simply because Lokene had not helped us create a mental link yet, but I worried it was because someone injured them badly enough that they weren’t even conscious.
The mate bond pulled me one street over. It drew me to one of the largest buildings in the area. The name ‘Jackon Enterprises’ was emblazoned on a gold plaque on the outside wall.
I’d found him. It didn’t matter if he was on land or at sea. I was a hunter, and I always found my prey.
Reaching up, I grabbed the giant glass doors and pulled hard on the handles. They didn’t budge, so I tried again. It was no use; they were locked. Peering through the glass, I watched as a man in uniform walked toward me. He stopped in front of me on the opposite side of the glass.
“We are closed, ma’am. Please call during business hours to make an appointment.”
I scoffed. He wanted me to make an appointment? The Lure had contaminated this man’s soul. It was black and eroded. The call beat like a drum in my mind, telling me what I must do.
There wasn’t a doubt in my mind. My mates were in this building. A building that oozed the disgusting inky taint of the Lure. I wasn’t leaving here without them, and I was tired of attempting to use human manners.
The water was up over my feet in this area of the city. This time, when I threw my hands up, I didn’t have to tell my magik what I wanted. It knew intuitively what I desired.
The force of the water crashing into the imposing glass doors caused them to blow off their hinges and be tossed inside the building as though they weighed nothing. One door crashed into the guard, knocking him so hard that he collapsed onto the ground, his head connecting with the marble tiles with a sickening crack. The doors slammed into the marble floor, shattering the glass and scattering it across the floor. Shrill alarms began to shriek throughout the building.
The pull of the mate bond stirred my rage. They had what was mine. Thunder rumbled, and the building trembled. Blinding lightning streaked across the sky. The lights in the building flickered. I stepped into the building like I owned it.
Seeing my grand entrance, a guard rushed out from behind the front desk, and four guards came down the corridor toward me. Water rushed into the lobby behind me. At the same instant, all five men drew their guns, leveling the sleek black weapons at my head.
“Stop right there! Take another step, and we will shoot!” The man’s voice was cold as ice. The Lure’s presence in this building was so thick, I could almost taste it.
I wasn’t an idiot. The only reason they hadn’t fired yet was so they could question me. There was no way they were going to let me walk out of this building alive. Funny, I felt the same about them.
I took another step, maintaining eye contact the entire time. They pulled the triggers, the sound of gunfire ricocheting off the walls. As the bullets neared me, I threw up my hand, and a wall of water intercepted the bullets, knocking them harmlessly to the floor.
I twisted my hand, using the water to sweep up the shards of broken glass. With a quick flick of my wrist, I sent the shards flying into the chest and necks of the guards who had fired at me. Their deaths were instant and far more merciful than they deserved.
The building had an open layout, and looking up, I could see each floor all the way up to the arched ceiling far above me. Each floor had solid glass, waist-high viewing walls, and brass banisters. This allowed guests to lean safely on the rails and look down into the lobby or call out to people on the other floors.
A large glittering chandelier hung from the golden ceiling. It dangled down three stories in an opulent show of wealth. A glass column rose on one side of the room, and a metal machine hummed inside it, moving from floor to floor.
Shouted commands came from the floors above me as guards poured out of the rooms. I looked up to find that on various floors, there were about twenty men leaning over the rails with their weapons trained on me.
I didn’t have time for this; I wanted my mates, and I wanted to go home. I had stopped a tsunami; didn’t I deserve a good meal and a fin rub?
The call drummed in my head. Its demanding command drilled into my skull, and I could feel a migraine coming on. There was just too much evil and so many Lure-tainted souls surrounding me.
This building needed to come down. It was a den of sadistic cruelty and obscene greed. I could swear the evil was a living, breathing entity that slid across my skin like a coating of slimy algae. It was suffocating me.
The machine in the glass column moved. From what I could see from where I stood, it was the only way up or down inside this building. Several armed guards rushed toward it. Heck no. I didn’t need everyone moving around, and I sure didn’t have time to stand here and wait for guard after guard to shoot at me.
Running toward the door of the glass column, I called the water and slammed it hard into the elevator. The elevator shook and groaned, but it was well constructed and did not give under the blast.
I spun around, gathering water around me like a miniature hurricane. This time when I sent the stream of water toward the glass box, the water drilled into the glass. The glass exploded, and tiny pieces rained down from three stories above. It would have been beautiful if I had been able to enjoy it… but I had found the man I was looking for.
Richard Jackon.
He leaned casually against the brass banister on the top floor. He was smirking down at me. “Those are some impressive skills you have. Too bad you don’t have the brains to go along with them. I’m going to enjoy having my scientists take you apart and figure out how you’ve managed these impressive tricks.”
I clenched my jaw. Even though he was eight stories above me, I could feel the palpable evil that rolled off him in waves. I’d never met someone with a soul as black as his. There was no light in this man. In all honesty, I didn’t think he had a soul at all.
