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“I got her, just clear the way.” I carefully scoop her into my arms while Alexi helps me maneuver out of the debris.
An ambulance approaches as soon as I step out, another close behind it. I look around to see Laney in Havoc’s arms. Lev and Damien look broken and Alexi is pacing furiously.
“Where is Evie?” I ask them.
“They took her, a car will be here any minute. We are getting her back.”
Alexi storms past me, pulling his phone out of his pocket and barking orders. It reminds me so much of me. I get Nessa into the back of the truck. As people look her over I go to my son and I pull him into a hug. He freezes at first, but I know he needs this from me. I need it too after everything that just happened.
“You need to be careful. If you go after her now it could be a trap.” I can’t tell him not to go, but as his father, I need to say something.
“Go with Nessa. We will figure this out. Havoc will take Laney in the next ambulance. You keep each other safe here. We are going to get our girl.”
I know there’s no point in arguing. If he dies on this mission, I have to accept that he makes his own choices. I let him go and he claps me on the shoulder, squeezing.
“I love you, Father.”
He turns and walks away as I whisper, “I love you too, son.”
I get into the back of the vehicle with Nessa to find her looking even worse than before.
“We need to get her to surgery, fast.”
The hospital is only a few minutes away. I have to hope we can make it. I don’t know what’s wrong with Laney or where Arrow was after the sniper got off a shot, but we can’t be down half our team in this. I’ve never lost like this before. Never.
I think about who could have done this, who would have known how to go after all of us here and warn Adrik. I think I have an idea, but I need to find some proof.
Just as I start to think about how to hunt the person responsible, an explosion unlike anything I’ve ever felt before ripples over the ground and fear grips me even more. He already took the girl I swore to protect. If he takes my son too, there will be no place he can hide that I won’t find him.
Even a Shade has to step out of the dark sometime. The moment he does, I’ll be waiting for him.
Chapter 65
My head keeps falling forward and it hurts to pick it up. I know this position all too well though. My ankles and legs are strapped to the chair and my hands are zip-tied behind me. I don’t want to move because if I do, they will know I’m awake. And I have no idea what I’m in for.
I was planning on sacrificing myself, sure, but I had thought I’d maybe be awake during the escape, so I could somehow slit my uncle’s throat in the process. None of this went to plan. I have no idea if The Society will even want me now that I screwed up this bad.
Will the guys be coming for me? Did they make it out okay? Are they together?
The lights flicker on above andhewalks into the room. I want to spit in his face, and I would if I wasn’t currently gagged. That’s probably why he did it. He knows just how feisty I can be. He trained me in the beginning after all.
“Well, well, well. Look who’s awake for us. Are you finally ready to break for me?”
Us?
I shake my head, not wanting to acknowledge that he’s brought me here. I know this room, I know these tools. He might want me alive, but he doesn't want me whole. He wants to break me. He wants me to blindly follow orders out of fear of what he might do.
“It really was a fun game to play for the past eleven years. Building you up just to ruin you. Figuring out just how much you could take before you broke. I always swore to myself that one day, I would find a way to shatter you the same way your father shattered me. He turned his back on me. And so did Boris when he stole my fiancé.”
He walks over to the table, calm and calculating.
“Do you know the best way to keep a prisoner from escaping,Evie?” He spits my fake name at me like it is rot in his mouth. “You never let them realize they’re in prison,” he answers for himself, not caring if I wanted to know the answer to the question.
“I helped kill your parents, then I took you. I pretended to protect you while manipulating you. I taught you to fight, but only for the causes I let you see. I kept you here, fighting my war forme. By just pretending to care for you. And you stayed—without me even having to ask.”
He laughs then. Like he’s sharing a joke he’d been holding onto for years. He laughs until tears stream down his face. Then, he looks at me with nothing but disdain in his eyes.
“But you were always soft. You could only take hits that had a good reason. You wanted pathetic, emotional women in my organization. Then you fell for the guys the second they gave you attention. Like the stupid whore you are.”
