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“Have you met Kaif?” Sage laughs. “Or Eziah? Or how about Katya?” “Make him a God? You're just putting a bigger target on his back!”
“Satish may not be a Reaper Wolf, but by the time I am done he will be immortal! His bite lethal, even to a God or Goddess.” My brows furrow in confusion.
“Satish Sanguis Lupus. Not a werewolf but also not human, he has no wolf inside him, he is the wolf. The beast of man, or animal of man. Reaper Wolves, being apex predators, have intense hunting and predatory instincts. In Satish's case, these instincts are hyper-elevated, manifesting as an overwhelming desire or need to hunt and consume blood. This bloodlust is more about the primal urge to dominate and assert his superiority as a predator. The more he consumes, the faster he heals and the stronger he gets, that's where Lucas comes in. Born of a dark Gemini Demigoddess and an Octavian Demigod father? He's the perfect one to test how fatal his bite will be!” Lorelei laughs, and my heart beats faster at her words.
“Shock them!” she orders and the lights flicker when I hear the charge and my eyes go to the chords attached to me before I feel the agonizing jolt.
It’s in that instance that finally Eziah mindlinks me. “We’ve got your location! We are on our way!” I can’t answer as my body tenses and my teeth grind. My wolves howl in my head.
Lorelei laughs maniacally as I writhe and scream from the electrical shock, yet she moves toward Sage. “Oh, don't worry my dear,” she taunts.
“I'm not going to kill you … yet! I want you to suffer first. Just like my son did!” She walks over to me and leans down, her breath hot on my ear. “But unlike him, you won't have a quick death. Oh no, you'll beg for it before I'm finished with you!”
My body convulses again as another shock runs through me. I grit my teeth, trying to hold back the screams that threaten to escape. I can feel my strength draining away with each passing moment.
Suddenly, there's a loud crash coming from somewhere above us, the electricity cuts off, and I gasp for breath. “Go check what's going on!” Lorelei orders as a commotion upstairs grows louder. “Now!” she yells, and I hear men rush off.
“Again!” she orders, and I scream.
ChapterOne Hundred Two
With all my might, I pull against the restraints holding me down. My muscles strain, my bones aching. Lorelei watches with glee as I writhe in pain. She cackles, relishing in my agony as the next volt courses through me.
“Hold on Temperance, we are close,” Eziah tells me. I'm barely conscious, the remnants of electricity still dancing along my nerves. Lorelei hovers over some aged papers. Satish, however, begins questioning the source.
“It's not working, where did you even get that old thing,” Satish asks.
“Alpha Jackson provided it as part of a deal. It’s incomplete since he was killed before he gave me the other page but mentions a sacrifice and drinking the blood of the Gemini’s last breath. We need both wolves to come forward,” she says with an unsettling calm.
Satish approaches, lifting my chin with a cold grip. “Bring the other wolf forward!” he demands. I’m too weak to respond, my body battered from the relentless electrocution.
However, Shadow pushes through, and I feel my eyes bleed black. “Which one are you?” Satish interrogates.
“Shadow,” she growls defiantly.
Satish’s frustration boils over. “The other one! I know she has two!” he shouts. When Shadow remains silent, he orders another shock. My body convulses, a puppet to their cruel whims.
“We are almost there! I'd port to you, but I need to know where to go!” Eziah urges, and I hear his whimper as the shock affects him too.
Then, in a terrifying turn, they bring out Casey, and my heart drops. Sage, bound beside me, screams in terror. Lucas, in his cage, bangs against the bars, his young face twisted in fear.
Vince, who had brought Casey in… a girl he raised as his own daughter, hesitates. “Maybe use the boy instead?” he suggests, a conflict evident in his eyes.
Satish pauses, eying Vince suspiciously. “You’re not having second thoughts, are you?”
Vince’s gaze flickers between Casey and Satish. “The boy… he’d… I’ve raised this girl like she’s my own!” he stammers.
“You want to get back at Rose, right?!” Satish presses. Vince nods reluctantly.
“Then this is how you do that! Hook the girl up, because, like your brother took my son, so am I about to take his daughter! Or do you have a problem with that?!” Satish asks coldly.
Sage pleads desperately. “No! No, use me! Shock me!” Her voice breaks, the anguish clear.
I’m screaming internally, begging Shadow to come forward. Nova joins in the plea. The sight of Casey being strapped to the machine is unbearable as she thrashes, confused and terrified. Lucas’s screams fill the basement, echoing our horror as he rattles the cage door.
“Eziah!” I scream through the mindlink. “They're going to kill Casey!” I whimper, tears flood down my cheeks, and Sage loses it, ripping at her restraints, and I yank on mine fiercely.
“Shadow please! Please!” I beg her. “She is a baby!” I plead, just as something shifts inside Shadow.
