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Chapter Twenty-Five
Hugh
Ihad found the location that Kristin had sent me to, and it took a couple of days to find someone who knew anything about a large camp.He said he needed to ask the boss before he brought anyone else there and told me to meet him the next night.
Each night, I felt Kristin when she exited the mountainside compound, but I didn’t respond.When I finally did, I told her I would be meeting someone soon and hopefully have good news for her the following evening.
I couldn’t tell you how relieved I was to be out of that stupid underground bunker and back in the fresh air.I had never been one for the indoors, and knowing that Angelina was out here someplace had me anxious to find her.
Kristin was right that I would be able to feel Angelina.I had tried to follow that feeling, and it had led me to an old building that hadn’t been in use for years.There were no signs of her there, and the one time I had tried to approach it and check it out firsthand, I’d gotten this sickening feeling in my gut and had turned back.
It was like the place had bad mojo or something and repelled me from entering.Perhaps someone cast a spell of some kind to make me feel that way to protect who was inside.I had stood a distance away and tried to focus on the connection I had once shared intensely with Angelina.It was in that building.I knew it.I just didn’t know how to get in there.
If this man I was meeting tonight took me back to this location, then I would know for sure I was right.I just needed to wait until he arrived.
I was waiting in a parking lot behind an old warehouse about five miles from the building I’d been drawn to.I paced around the transport for a few moments and then heard another one approaching.
I tried to tame my anxiousness to see Angelina as he pulled to a stop.I hadn’t told the man that I was looking for her.I only said that I was looking for more of our breed to work with to stop the hell we were going through.I never told the guy my name, and I had wondered if he knew who I was.After Kristin and I had mated, and before we went underground, my photograph had circulated with hers.
Would this man know that I was the mate to the mistress?Would he care?The transport van pulled to a stop, and he climbed out of the back.
“Glad you are here.”
“What did your group leader say?”
“He’s interested in meeting you.”
“That’s good.”
“I’m Jack, and you are?”
“Hugh.”
He grinned.“Hugh?As in Hugh McMurphy?”
I felt unsettled as he asked me that.Perhaps I should have given him another name.“Yeah, is that a problem?”
He laughed.“Nope.It’s perfect!”
I had been so focused on him and had kept myself locked down since he arrived that I never felt the others gathering behind me until it was too late.
Suddenly, a shock coursed through my body, and I knew it was from one of the electrical guns that the humans had used on Kristin and many others.I dropped to my knees as the pain of the blast seared through me.
Somehow it didn’t knock me out, not that time anyway, and two other men were on me, shackling my ankles and wrists with metal that burned deep into my body.I tried to fight them, but it was like I was fighting through a pool of molasses, and my movements were slow and sluggish.I tried not to panic, but it was hard not to when Jack stood over me and grinned maliciously.
“He’s going to be so damned excited to see you.”He pulled his leg up, and all I remembered was seeing this booted foot coming toward my head before it was lights out.
When I came to, every inch of my body ached, and I realized that my face wasn’t the only thing that had been kicked.Someone had used me for target practice, and my ribs, back, and gut were aching.Why wasn’t I healing?If I had been beaten, with as strong as my blood is, I should have healed by now.
I tried to move and realized my arms and legs were still bound, and I was now lying on a metal bed.Fuck!Was this made from the metal that sucked our powers?It had to be.That was why I couldn’t heal and felt like my limbs were made of lead.
There was a large lamp above me, but it wasn’t on right now, and noise off to the side garnered my attention.I rolled my head, unable to pick it up.Approaching me was a man I knew, and my stomach knotted tightly.
“Nice to see you again, Hugh.How’s the world been treating you?”Adam smiled down at me as if we were old friends.Suddenly I knew who the boss was here, and I knew I was in a whole lot of fucking trouble.
“Just fucking fantastic, Adam.Where is your boy toy?I’d love to speak with Joe if he’s got a minute.”
“What makes you think Portage is here?”
