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“They need you here,” I added.
We got outside, and it was time for me to shift so that I could get to the portal quicker, but Lykem skipped ahead and beat me to it.
The stubborn fucker wasn’t going to take no for an answer.
At least I still had my phone. I didn’t need to drive back to the academy. I could call River, give the update, and we could come back. We’d be gone for five or ten minutes.
I called the shift forward, reveling in the charged energy of my dragon as his body formed. He was in the sky just a few seconds behind Lykem, and we followed his red dragon toward the portal opening.
My eyes still scanned the area below, but there was nothing new to see. Not even new destruction. Since coming back, things had been exceedingly quiet, which bothered me and several others. If whoever had been attacking had stopped, what were they planning next? That was an answer we likely wouldn’t get until it was too late.
We arrived at the portal and shifted back to our human forms, and I placed my hand on Lykem’s chest. “You need to conceal your energy before we walk through this portal.”
He gave me one of his signature smirks. “I prepared for this moment the day you came back.” Then, he closed his eyes and a shimmer of opaque energy covered his body for a few seconds.
When he looked my way again, the cockiness of his grin wasn’t something I had any intention of responding to. Instead, I concealed my own energy, noticing that the magic was harder to pull from, which meant I would need to use another scale soon to re-up the cloaking spell.
The portal before us was an invisible forcefield between two trees, one that could be sensed, but never seen. The energy made my skin itch, but I didn’t hesitate walking through the doorway.
Three steps forward and I was standing at the base of a snow-covered mountain. Another second later, my phone began vibrating like crazy in my pocket.
I moved out of the way to check the messages as Lykem stepped through.
“What the fuck is this shit?” He shuddered. “You didn’t tell me my balls might freeze off.”
I ignored his complaints as I stared at the screen on my phone.
River: Why haven’t you called me back? Where the fuck is Dawsyn?
River: Beatrix called. Roman and Cait have called. You need to answer the damn phone.
River: You’re so fucked if you don’t bring her back.
Unknown: I have your scales and blood, boy. I will find you and you will give me my granddaughter.
Unknown: You have twelve hours before the hunt begins.
There were others, but I stopped reading as soon as Lykem punched me in the shoulder. “Look up.”
I slid my phone back into my pocket as I sensed Dawsyn’s GiGi and two wolf shifters in front of us.
I should have expected this. I’d known they’d be furious, but had hoped that River would have made them understand that I wasn’t the one who took her.
“Cillian,” Beatrix said with a snarl. “Where is Dawsyn?”
The man beside her stormed forward, vengeance in his raging blue eyes and dripping with alpha power. The woman behind him looked just like my mate with her brunette hair and sharp facial features.
Feeling rather confident these were Dawsyn’s parents, I didn’t try to stop the alpha wolf as he pinned me against the rocks. “I don’t care who you are. If you don’t bring back my daughter, I will rip every fucking scale from your body.”
His forearm pressed into my throat, and I saw Lykem stepping closer, but I shook my head, trying to tell him to stay back. Unfortunately, Dawsyn’s dad thought I was telling him no.
He smashed his forehead into my face, likely breaking my nose based on the sharp pains radiating from there.
“Don’t fucking tell me no,” he hissed. “Or it will be the last thing you do.”
The woman approached. “Roman, he can’t talk if you’re choking him, and he’s Dawsyn’s mate. He doesn’t smell like her, which means he hasn’t been with her. Let him explain.”
“As much as I love a good torture session,” Beatrix said, “Cait’s right. I saw them together. His intentions were good. At least then.”
