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Before he could even let out a scream, I sliced my wolf claws into his throat and sank my fangs into his neck, sucking out as much of his blood as I needed before the man fell to the ground, dead.
Rage rushed through me, and I snapped my head toward the door, where the others had disappeared. This torture needed to end. Now.
Mom shook her head. “Don’t go out there, Sina. They can’t catch you.”
“They won’t.”
“Sina,” Mom scolded. When I reached the door, she whimpered, “Sina, I love you.”
After slipping out of the door, I followed the voices toward a room I had always known as the laboratory, where they had done experiments on me almost every night. I stopped at the door and glanced around it and into the room.
Dad sank a needle into one of the crying baby’s hearts and extracted blood. The blood whooshed through a small tube and connected with a needle that had been sunk into one of Dad’s guard’s hearts.
The baby screamed at the top of her lungs, the shrill sound echoing through the room. Then, suddenly, it was gone. The baby stopped crying, stopped moving, stopped breathing. My eyes widened as I took in what they were doing, as I finally figured it all out.
Dad was creating an army, an army of Paragons, using babies.
Babies!
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When I noticedthat Sina’s eyes had glazed over during our conversation with Maxine and Xorgor, I hurried over to her. She stayed still for a moment, then began to sway from side to side. My eyes widened slightly as my stomach twisted.
I didn’t know what was going on with her, but I wasn’t going to wait and find out. I placed my hands on her waist, clutching it tightly to stop her from swaying. She whimpered and shook her head, closing her eyes.
A moment later, she collapsed. I caught her before she fell onto the ground and picked her up into my arms. Her eyes were closed completely now, her body relaxed, as if she had just passed out. Everyone snapped their heads over to her.
Maxine ran to us, pushing some hair off Sina’s sweaty forehead, her eyes wide in fear. “What … what happened to her? What’s going on? Ever since the Halloween party, Sina has seemed off. Please, tell me. I’ve waited four years for her to return too.”
After peering at Calder, Thayer, and Gaian, I cleared my throat and stared down at my mate, passed out in my arms. I didn’t know what to say to Maxine or what weshouldtell her about what our mate really was.
“She’s been experiencing things,” Gaian started. “I don’t know if you know or not, but she’s not human. And her father …”
I glared at Gaian, not wanting him to say another word. Sina wouldn’t want him to say anything either. She had kept it a secret from us for so long; I doubted that she would want one of her best friends to know.
It wasn’t because she didn’t trust Maxine, but because she wanted to protect her.
Like she had wanted to protect us.
“Sina’s father wants her back,” Gaian said.
“Bring her home,” Calder said to me. “We’ll figure things out here. You go too, Gaian.”
After taking Sina to the front door, I walked out of it with Gaian toward our property. It might’ve been on the other side of town, but I decided to go the long way so we didn’t run into that demon crowd again.
As much as we all wanted to kill Jaroth, we first needed to get Sina somewhere safe.
Almost a half hour later, when we reached our house, Sina shifted uncomfortably in my arms, twisting from side to side and sweating profusely now.
When she began muttering,“No,”over and over again, I nodded to the back door.
“Open it up, Gaian. We need to get her—”
Suddenly, Sina snapped her eyes open and stared up at the dark night sky. Tears began pouring down her face, her cheeks becoming blotchy. “No!” she said, shaking her head and twisting even more in my arms. “No! They can’t.”
