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“Are you ready, myperfectbride?” he purred, his cheeks flushed in anticipation.
“Yes,” I murmured, as my back hit the wall where he’d wanted me to start.
Bentley restarted the music and it began to swell around us.
I inhaled the smell of…death.
And I walked towards my future. Because there was no way that my white knights—or dark knights, I should say—were ever going to find me.
* * *
Remington
It had taken me far too long to hack into Aurora’s computer that was still at the Sphinx. Whoever had helped her with the firewalls and protections was good. Her hacker friend, I was guessing, since Aurora had mentioned her helping with computer stuff. I was just hoping when I messaged her from Aurora’s account that she would actually respond. She had to know places where Aurora could have been taken. There was no doubt in any of our minds that the guys had been Demon followers. We were just hoping they were close Demon followers and would have wanted to stay close to his property for whatever demented shit they had planned.
And everything in me was saying this hacker person knew far more about the Demon than she’d been playing off to Aurora.
“What the fuck is taking so long?” Stellan snipped, wearing holes in the carpet as he walked back and forth across the room. Cain and Paxton were out driving the area on the off chance that he’d taken her nearby and they spotted the van anywhere. We all knew that they wouldn’t find anything.
But I guess they wanted to feel useful.
I loved being the useful one for Aurora. I think that earned me extra, exclusive time with her after we got her back.
And we were going to get her back.
We were also going to follow up on that leash idea, because a tracker was never going to be good enough, and I was never going to let her out of my sight again.
She could bitch and complain all she wanted.
“Shut the fuck up, Stellan,” I muttered as I worked to get through yet another wall in Aurora’s computer that was preventing me from being able to get into the account. On a normal computer, it would have taken me less than five minutes to be able to control their whole interface. It had been hours so far trying to get into Aurora’s, and I was about to lose my mind.
And stab Stellan.
Although maybe we’d learned our lesson about the whole stabbing Stellan thing. Who knows how long he would have been able to hold on if Cain hadn’t mutilated his shoulder.
Not that Cain was probably thinking about that at all.
Asshole.
When I realized I didn’t hear Stellan’s feet dragging through the carpet, I glanced back, only to see Stellan on the floor with his face in his hands.
Such a melodramatic bastard.
“Stellan, we’re going to get her back,” I said, feeling exhausted all of a sudden. I’d been riding adrenaline since the moment she’d been grabbed. But now that the hours were stretching on, and this was taking so fucking long, a bone-deep weariness had begun to spread through my veins.
“She hasn’t forgiven me, Remi. I’ve been such a bastard. I think I’ll literally die if something happened to her.”
“Newsflash, Stellan. A million things have already happened to her. Maybe those should have brought about this midlife crisis you’re having.”
His eyes were red-rimmed as he dragged his fingers down his face and looked at me pathetically. He was hurting. Badly. A flicker of jealousy came to life in my chest, because despite everything, she was definitely still in love with him. They had something special between them, a shared history that I’d never be able to replicate. Even after months of him being the world’s biggest asshole, she loved him.
“Yes!” I practically screamed as the program I’d been trying to use finished loading and I made it through the final firewall. Stellan sprang off the ground and was at my shoulder in a second, peering over my shoulder at Aurora’s desktop. I immediately went to her server and started the process of logging in to the dark web messenger I knew she used.
“Fuck.”
“What?”
“Just hating at the moment how fucking smart our girl is. It would be much easier to save Lady Love if she could have used fewer encrypted passwords. Whatever happened to saving your passwords in your Google keychain,” I complained, shaking my head as I started yet another program. “You guys are lucky to have me.”
