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The two wolves darted ahead to start the fight. Among the clashing racket was a small voice, a boy weakened by poisoning. “Dad?”
I sprinted forward. “Henry!”
The ancient room hosted a series of jail cells with chipped equipment set up in the center on a platform. It was like a theater room—but for something far more sinister than the performance arts. Henry rested on one of the raised platforms, what appeared to be a medical table.
I rushed to him without hesitation. Somewhere in the distance, my name came to life, but I didn’t have time to recognize the sound. A hand smacked my chest and sent me to the ground with an earth-shatteringslam.
None other than Lars, Domingo’s dedicated lackey, stood above me. Fangs glinted in the candlelight, darkening his already sinister smile. “Adam, you came for the show.”
He gestured toward my son who looked more like a ghost than a boy. Even his freckles didn’t house any color.
My heart twisted in my chest. “What did you do to him?”
“Nothing that wouldn’t benefit us in the long run.” Lars jammed his foot into my chest, keeping me pinned to the ground no matter how much I tried to wiggle out of place. He was stronger down here. And I was in my human form. “He’ll save us all, the child of the pure-blooded wolf.”
“I don’t understand.”
He smiled elegantly. “You don’t need to understand electricity to know that flipping a switch will give you light, right?”
“As long as the wiring is done correctly.”
“You amuse me, Adam. You’re so much like your alpha.”
I sneered. “I take that as a compliment.”
“You shouldn’t. He’s as dim-witted as he is driven by his passions.” Lars shrugged, relinquishing some pressure from my chest. “Won’t matter soon. The spell is nearly complete.”
Nina and Charlotte rushed toward the table. Lars flipped around and commanded his vampires to stop them. A haze of movement erupted next, vampires appearing from the woodwork that we hadn’t originally seen. This was their domain. They could command anything down here.
Which meant we had to move quickly.
While Nina and Charlotte fought off the two vampires keeping them from Henry, I twisted Lars’s foot and sent him tumbling back. He caught himself and snarled as he charged toward me, extending his sharpened claws. I partially shifted my hands and slashed at him, sending him tumbling toward one of the empty medical tables.
He managed to right his footing and spun gracefully around, sprinting toward me with paranormal speed. Another slash slowed his assault. One more broke the porcelain skin of his cheek, blood barely able to pool in the wounds before they sewed themselves shut.
He grinned victoriously. “You’ll lose, Adam. You always lose.”
“Fuck you.”
“You’re not my type.”
I roared as my jaw began to shift. My emotions were taking control now. I couldn’t stop them from propelling my shift.
Within seconds, my wolf burst from my skin, canines dripping with saliva as I stepped menacingly toward the fang that kept me from my child. Charlotte cried out. The sound of her injury doubled my fury, prompting me to launch at Lars. I lunged for his neck, his hands rising to grab my jaws and keep them inches from his delicate throat.
He fell to his back while wrestling my gaping maw.
“One sacrifice,” Laws growled. “For the good of all vampires. For the good fight.”
A burst of energy inspired me to dig my claws into his sides as I tried to snap his throat. But his grip on my jaw was too strong. Being in his element granted him so much more strength. What the hell was I thinking coming down here like this?
“So attached to your kin,” he teased. “It makes you weak. It makesallof you weak.”
“No,” Charlotte argued. She stepped toward the vampire’s head with one of her daggers raised, panting for air. “It makes us so much stronger.”
In one swift motion, I leaped away from Lars as she plunged the knife toward his neck. A sickening gurgle echoed from his throat while he struggled to yank the blade from his flesh. We left him writhing on the ground while we ran to Henry who was barely hanging on to life.
I hoisted him into my arms and barked over my shoulder, “Let’s go!”
