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“You don’t know my sister,” she hissed at Gideon after he spoke.“If he hurt one hair on her mate’s head, she will lose her shit.She doesn’t like the people she cares about being hurt or used as a fucking message board!”
“Then I think you need to talk to him about releasing Hugh.Maybe he doesn’t know they are mated.”
Angelina laughed before she started toward the door.“Oh, he knows.”
“Wait!”I called and flashed in front of her.“If you need to do this, at least wait for me to come with you.”
She thought about that for a second.“Fine, but you have thirty seconds, and then I am out of here.”
Gideon and I dressed as quickly as she did, and less than a minute later, we were out the door and heading toward the elevator.
Angelina closed her eyes in the elevator and then opened them to push the ground floor button.She tapped her toe and watched the numbers as we went down.The second the doors began to open, she was through them, and Gid and I were right behind her, moving fast.
She went to one of the lounges at the back of the hotel and didn’t stop until she was inches from the man.“Where the fuck is he?”
Portage was holding a glass of a dark-amber liquid as he stared at her.“Hello, Angelina.Did you and your friends have a nice time?I was almost ready to join you.”
“Cut the shit, Joe.Where the fuck is Hugh?”
“Being detained.”He cocked his head.“And how did you know he was here.”
“Because I can feel him.You aren’t just detaining him.You are torturing him to death.”
“Oh, Angelina, don’t be so dramatic.He will be fine.Nothing that some strong blood from his mate can’t cure.Although he might have a scar or two to remind him not to double-cross me in the future.”
She leaned over the table into his face and said much calmer than I expected, “Your future is dangerously close to ending, Portage.”
His eyes cut to us momentarily, but that was the only tell he gave that he might be worried about what she would do.
“Where is he?”
“I’ll let you see him if you calm down.”
She grabbed his neck, and everyone in the room started to move.His guards began to rush her, and a few others stood from their tables as if to leave.But Angelina threw up her hand, and everyone in the room froze in mid-movement.
I couldn’t move, and I knew that Gideon wouldn’t be able to either.“What the fuck?”he hissed into my mind.
She lifted Portage from the chair he was in, his legs dangling.“You will tell me where he is now, or I will drain you.”Her fangs were out; her eyes were glowing, and Portage’s skin paled.
“No,” he replied, much calmer than I would have expected.
This whole time I had been working to find a way to break the compulsion that she had put on me, and I was finally able to do so.I jerked forward and got in between them, shoving Angelina back hard enough that she lost her grip on Portage, and he fell back to the chair and knocked it over, landing on his back on the floor.
Her glowing gaze landed on me, and I bared my fangs.“Enough!We need him.You can’t kill him because he’s holding the man that you love.”
Her gaze dropped to Portage as he began to laugh and lift himself off the ground.“That’s why you are so worried about your sister’s mate!Do you do threesomes with them too?”
Before Angelina could go after him again, I released Gideon from the compulsion she had put on him, and he dove in front of her to stop her.
“Stop!”I yelled, a little louder than I had intended.The echo of my words vibrated around the room in a weird pattern that slightly confused me and made everyone wince.I lowered my voice.“Stop!Both of you stop!”I sucked in a breath to calm myself and then rolled my shoulders back.
I turned to Portage.“I don’t know why you are torturing Hugh, but I suggest that you stop.I have a feeling that if you don’t, hell is going to go tumbling down on you, and no one will be able to stop it.And I’m not just thinking about Angelina here.If you do have the mate of the mistress someplace, she will come for him.”
“That’s what I’m counting on.I would think that your group, of all people, would know how important it is for us to take a stand now to stop the human creatures from continuing to abolish our species.”He brushed himself off as he stared at Angelina.“Obviously, your sister lied about not being able to get out of the compound before a year is over.She sent him out to find you.She knows where you are, which means after sending that message to her, she will come for her mate.”
“You don’t know my sister,” Angelina growled.
“But I do.I know how much she cares for her people.I knew how much she loved Alexander and how much she loved Julian.”He paused.“I wonder how Zander is doing now that Hugh is here.Could that possibly be the reason she sent Hugh away?Or does he reciprocate your feelings, and he found a way out of the compound to come rescue the woman he secretly loves?”
