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“Your mate wrongfully abducted my eldest son. He was asked, twice, to release him, or his loved ones would suffer. That’s why you’re here. Lucian will release my son to stop your torture.”
Mia let out a sob. “I don’t have a mate! Lucian isn’t anything to me. You’ve made a terrible mistake. Please, don’t do this.”
Something cold touched her upper arm and she gasped, watching helplessly as the lab-coated male swabbed her arm with an alcohol pad.
Dario tilted his head. “We’re not wrong. I watched the two of you when he broke your heart. Poor little wolf. Make no mistake, though. He’s your mate and he knows it. He’s trying to protect you by not taking you as his own, but the truth is that he effectively sealed our ability to kidnap you by leaving you alone and vulnerable.”
Dario pulled a phone from his pocket and she recognized the pink glittery case as her own.
“I don’t have his number,” she said. “Because he’s not my mate.”
“No worries,” he said, smiling as he looked at her over the phone. “We have all we need on him. I don’t know why a she-wolf would choose a human for a mate, but here we are. Now, smile for the camera, because you’re about to discover what it means to be bait.”
She heard the buttons clicking as he dialed a number, and then the pinging of the video-call app. It went unanswered, so he dialed it again. And a third time.
“I told you,” she said. “He doesn’t want anything to do with me.”
“He’ll answer,” he said.
“What are you doing?” the female asked.
“Sending him a text he can’t ignore.”
Then the video app sound pinged again, and she heard Lucian’s voice. “Mia? Mia! Are you okay?”
The female made a motion with her hand, and Dario stepped back to widen the angle of the video. “Hello, Lucian Devoe – or should I say Carnahan? You’re a tricky male to track down, but we did, and here we are. With your mate.”
“Dahlia, let her go. She’s not my mate,” he said, his voice low and dangerous.
“Oh? We’re certain that she is. At leastshebelieves you’re hers, and Dario is certain that you’ll want to stop us from fully testing our new mating drugs on her.”
She nodded at the lab-coated male, who tapped a needle filled with clear blue liquid a few times and then stuck it into Mia’s arm. She shrieked as the drug flowed into her arm, leaving a burning trail in its wake. Almost as soon as the burning started, it stopped, replaced by a strange warmth that started low in her belly and spread outward.
Dahlia rested her hand on Mia’s stomach with a laugh. “We’re on the cusp of finishing the research on the mating drug. It will throw any female into a mating heat within hours.”
“That’s not possible,” Mia said. “You can’t force nature.”
“I can and I will,” Dahlia said, looking down at Mia. She glanced at the phone still trained on them. “Lucian, did you know that wolves have a certain custom when it comes to their mating heat? The first male who climaxes inside them is their mate.”
“No!” Mia shouted, jerking on the bonds. “It won’t work. This isn’t a natural heat! You can’t force me to have sex and then take a mate of the male who rapes me.”
There were some lascivious chuckles around the room, and Mia’s heart fell. If these people had really figured out how to force a mating heat, then eventually Mia would be too delirious with the heat to care who fucked her.
“What do you want?” Lucian said.
“Release Antonio,” Dahlia said.
“I can’t. I don’t have the authority.”
“I didn’t say you needed to use the proper channels, I said you needed to set him free. You have two hours. If you haven’t released Antonio by then, I’ll give your little mate another dose. Pretty soon, her body’s needs are going to overwhelm her and she’ll do anything to stop the pain, including letting my males line up to fuck her. Once she’s mated to one of my males, I’ll be sure to send you pictures and videos. My boys like to share.”
“Don’t hurt her,” Lucian said. “She’s innocent.”
“It doesn’t matter,” Dahlia said. “You’re not. You stole my son and you will return him to me or she’ll suffer.”
She made a slashing motion over her throat and Dario pushed a button and said, “Use this number. Don’t alert your people to what’s happened. If you try to save Mia instead of setting Antonio free, we’ll kill her and it won’t be swift. Remember, you have two hours.”
Dario tucked the phone into his pocket and smiled pleasantly at Mia. “See you in two hours, she-wolf. If you’re lucky, your mate is already on the way to setting my brother free.”
