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I didn’t know if she understood me, so I closed my eyes and hoped that I could send her one of my thoughts—an image of us freeing ourselves from the guards and living outside in peace with the other species.
Her eyes widened slightly.
“Please, I will help you if you help me.”
Another long bout of silence before she sat up taller.“How?”
“Are you all Paragons with powers?”
“Yes.”
“If you work together, you can escape your cell. I will distract the guards. You all escape, kill the man in front of me, and set me free. I will bring you to get revenge for all the people, all your family and friends, that your master has hurt.”
They all looked at each other, as if they were talking to each other through the Paragon vision too, a liveliness in all of their eyes again. I didn’t need an answer from them because I knew that they would help me, and if they didn’t, I still needed to escape.
“Hey, you fuckers,” I growled, standing up and gripping the prison bars directly in front of the children. “Over here!”
The guards walked toward me and shoved me back and off the cell bars.
I lunged toward them and grabbed one by the throat, sinking my claws into his neck and yanking him even closer. “You’re going to—”
Before I could even finish my sentence, the cell door swung open across the hallway, and Paragons leaped out of the cell, jumping on the guards and taking large bites of them with their pointed fangs.
The guards struggled for a moment before they both collapsed onto the ground and became nothing but corpses. Warrior Number 34 grabbed a key from a guard’s pocket and unlocked my cell.
“Freedom,” she said. “Please.”
“Freedom.”
Once I thrust myself through the door and exited the mansion that my father and his minions had attempted to hold me inside of with the othertrueParagons, I froze in my spot. Demons and werewolves were fighting across the front lawn against that asshole’s guards, who he had turned into Paragons with babies’ blood.
My heart pounded inside my chest as I scanned the battle happening before my eyes. From afar, I spotted Gaian and Darius had both shifted into their wolves and were fighting off two Paragonian guards while a couple of their packmates lay dead on the ground beside them.
So much loss. So much fucking death.
A Paragonian guard ripped a demon into two and dropped him at my feet. I stared in horror at how strong they were, but I knew we couldn’t fear them. If I tried hard enough, I’d be able to take control of them. I could stop them, but first, I needed to stop that asshole.
Continuing to scan the area, I spotted that asshole trying to depart to safety. I gritted my teeth and balled my fists, extending my talons enough to rip right through my skin. My body boiled in anger, my fangs aching for his blood.
“Stop him!” I growled, inspiring the younger Paragon children, who were much stronger than some measly guards, to fight for their parents who had died because of that asshole, to get revenge and seize their own lives back. “We don’t let him live!”
The children sprinted through the battle, killing anyone who stood in their way even if they had Paragon blood, and headed straight for that asshole who ran desperately toward a small concrete building just outside his estate.
I bet that fucker had a bunker in case something like this happened.
“Don’t let him make it into the building!” I shouted. “Bring him to me!”
As the children picked up their pace, I turned back to the battlefield and gripped my hands into tighter fists. I wasn’t sure how or if I’d be able to control them completely because they weren’t true Paragons, but I had to try.
“The wolves and demons are not your enemies!” I shouted, walking through the battlefield. Rage boiled through me as I witnessed the horrors these creatures—my kind—could do to other species, but I forced myself to stay calm. “Stop fighting them!”
While words weren’t much, especially to creatures who feasted off violence, some stopped attacking the other species and glanced my way. In their eyes, I could see their internal struggles to continue fighting. The asshole had controlled them up until now.
Now, I wanted to release them from his curse.
“You don’t have to fight!” I shouted louder. “We aren’t here to kill you!”
More stopped and glanced over. I didn’t know how it was possible, how they listened to me, but Dad had mentioned that his power to inspire the Paragons to fight for him had been passed down to me. It was my turn to make the decisions, make the choices that would keep us alive.
