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When he was dead, I spun around, searching for Danna and Emmie. They were in the truck, huddled together. Emmie’s head was still tucked against Danna’s chest, and she looked at me with jade eyes, filled with shock and horror, but there was anger, too. Anger, and determination to do whatever it took to keep that girl safe.
I understood it perfectly because it mirrored what I felt right to my core.
“She’s okay,” Rune said. “The others have been taken care of. Cullen was the last. I made sure they were out of harm’s way.”
Finally, my anger faded enough that I could shift into human form and use words to communicate.
“Get them back to Vegas,” I growled at Rune. “Make sure they’re safe. Put them in the safehouse.”
I knew he’d do what I asked without making matters worse. He was gentle enough to look after them when they’d just been through hell, but he would take care of them no matter what. I trusted him. I needed them both more than ever now that I’d realized one of my own had stabbed me in the back.
Rune walked to the car. I turned to face Zen.
“Find out what you can about this. See what Cullen had; go into his place, I want everything and anything we can find.”
“On it,” Zen said.
“Hey,” I said when the two guys walked away from me.
They both turned to face me.
“Thank you.”
They both nodded once, a mirror image of each other, before Zen shifted and headed back to Vegas, and Rune got into the truck. He pulled a blanket over his lap to hide his nakedness, and he turned the truck around.
I looked at the carnage we’d left behind. I had to make a few calls to get this shit cleaned up before the humans got their panties in a twist about it. The human world could be so fucking pathetic sometimes, losing their shit over small things. This was reality—life and death and all the bullshit in between. It was how the cookie crumbled, and getting upset when things happened naturally was pathetic.
Not that this was natural, but whatever. I wasn’t going to argue that point with myself right now.
Damn it, this shouldn’t have happened. They should have gone back to Portland so I could carry on with my life, my business. Now, I had to take care of them, to make sure they were safe, and double the security.
That meant more of my men would be there instead of doing what they usually did.
I needed to find the rest of the Rogues and wipe them out and minimize collateral damage. There were already too many people involved in this for my liking.
How had Danna and this kid gotten involved? What did they have to do with anything? Whatever it was, it pissed me off, and I blamed that stupid fae for coming to me in the first place.
Would this have happened if I hadn’t known about them at all? Maybe, maybe not. Who the fuck knew. All I knew was right now, I had a mess to clean up, business to take care of, and a problem to solve that shouldn’t have been on my plate in the first place.
12
DANNA
“Where are we?” I asked when Rune—one of the twins—brought me to yet another place where we were supposed to stay.
“At a safehouse,” Rune said.
Of the twins, I liked him more. He was kind, and he didn’t talk to me like I was a piece of ass or a waste of time, which was all Zen ever did when he opened his mouth. I’d been so relieved when Wesley had told Rune to take us away rather than Zen.
“What does that mean?” I asked.
“It means that it’s a lot harder to get in here and get to you,” Rune said. “Wes will make sure the security is right, too. You don’t have to worry.”
“It’s a bit late for that,” I said dryly.
Since we’d been kidnapped in our homes at night, everything had been a nightmare. We’d been held captive in a shed, attacked on the road, and we’d had two places to stay the same number of nights.
“I know,” Rune said, and he had the decency to look sympathetic. “I know this is hard.”
