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“Ajax…” Grace groaned. “Put. Me. Down.”
I held her tighter. “They came to her house! They tried to kill her! She’s mine!” I barely recognize my own voice.
“Holy shit,” Talon muttered, moving to Zachariah’s side. “Look at her chest.”
“Keep your eyes to yourself!” I snarled at my best friend.
“I’d put her down,” Saint said, leaning back against the counter.
“Fuck off!” I shouted.
He winced. “Don’t blame me when—”
“Let me go!” Grace screamed, and her tone made me loosen my hold. She hit her feet and lunged for the nearest thing—a potted fig tree—and then heaved up the contents of her stomach over its roots.
“Shit.” I hit my knees next to her, rubbing her back as she vomited, her pain taking precedence over my anger. “It’s the wending. Damn it. I’m sorry, baby.”
“Baby?” Dagon whispered on a half-choke.
Talon whistled.
“We have to get her to Alek,” Zachariah said. “He’s in the library.”
“Where are we?” Grace asked as the heaving stopped.
“I’ll explain everything in a minute,” I promised, helping Grace to her feet and tucking the robe tighter around her as Cassandra and Jocelyn walked into the kitchen.
“Holy fuck, you brought a human to the residence?” Jocelyn openly stared at Grace.
I glared at Benedict’s mate and Zachariah sighed.
Cassandra inhaled deeply and then cocked her head to the side. “Oh, she’s not human.”
“I’m not?” Grace said.
“She…what?” I snapped at the same time.
Cassandra looked at Grace, her gaze dropping to the mating mark on her chest, and then gave me her full attention. “She’s a half-blood.”
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GRACE
My heart raced against my chest, making it hard to get the proper amount of air in my lungs, and I seriously needed a toothbrush. Like now.
Half-blood.
The words from the stunning woman standing next to an even more striking woman with purple hair had said the words that had Ajax going as still as a statue.
I glanced up at him, my mind whirling. “Ajax?”
The sound of my voice shook him from whatever trance he’d been in, and if it hadn’t been for the movements and concerned looks from his…friends, I would’ve thought he stopped time again.
“Get her to Alek,” one of the men said. “We’ll figure the rest out after you speak with our king.”
“King?” I asked as Ajax gently tugged me down a hallway. God, now I sounded like a bird squawking out everything I didn’t understand.
“I promise I’ll explain everything,” he said, his voice edged with fear, anger, and some kind of desperation that pulled at my heart. I couldn’t blame him. Not after what had just happened.
