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A cruel person didn’t just barge in and destroy.
A cruel person played with his victims.
When I got my hands on this person—and the moon helped me, I would—I would make him suffer too.
Above us, the sky rumbled, the clouds darkening more.
I closed my hand around the crystal.
A jolt coursed through my arm, like a strong electrical surge, and I flew back a couple of feet, landing on my back.
Groaning, I rolled to my side.
Dom ran to me, offering me his hand. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah.” The shock had faded, but my heart pumped against my rib cage. I could still feel the electricity running through me.
“What the hell was that?” Vallin asked when I knelt before the crystal again.
“That means this is going to be hard.” I glanced up at them. “Go find some tools, rubber gloves, whatever we can use to pry these crystals from here.”
Dom, Vallin, and Roman nodded and disappeared from my sight.
I reached for the crystal again.
The same jolt hit me, but this time I was prepared for it. I braced myself, gritted my teeth, and only skidded back a foot or two.
I ran a hand down my arms, my skin still electrified.
Fat drops fell down from the sky. Just what I needed when being electrocuted by a powerful, poisoned, magical crystal.
Cursing, I knelt beside the trap door again.
This was going to be a long night.
20
RAIKA
I almost hada fit when I walked out of the infirmary and found Shane, Dom, and Vallin taking turns trying to pry the crystal from its vault—in the rain!
I called Killian and asked him to help me make them see reason. To be fair, the others seemed relieved when I called it quits, but Shane was tenser than ever.
I sent them home—they didn’t seem to mind receiving orders from the omega, didn’t even question it—and I told Shane to go home too.
“I’ll be there soon,” I promised.
By the time I had taken a shower, changed into clean clothes, and gotten the ingredients I needed for tonight, the rain had stopped. For now. The clouds covered the sky, hiding the setting sun, and they rumbled every few minutes, promising more rain in the future.
When I got to Shane’s house, he was in the shower. Tyren, who had opened the door for me, told me Shane had come back from a run.
“To clear his head,” Tyren mocked.
An urge to go into Shane’s bathroom and join him hit me, but Tyren stared at me as if he expected something, and Minsi was now attached to my waist. I couldn’t get rid of them even if I tried.
And truth was, I didn’t want to.
I loved Shane, but I loved his siblings too. In the future, when this mess was resolved, our people accepted me, and Shane told everyone I was his mate, the four of us would be a family.
