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“Look at you,” he sneered as his eyes drank in my giant wolf. We stood far taller than normal wolves. Nearly four feet tall. No wonder humans called us werewolves. “If you think you’re going to kill me, you’re wrong.” He tilted his head to his right. Our gaze slid to where he’d motioned, a low growl emanating from deep within us.
He had strung up my mates by their wrists, dangling them from the ceiling, their feet barely touching the ground. The iron tang of their blood scented the air. He’d touched what was ours. Swiveling my gaze back to the man who’d tortured me since I was sixteen, we bared our teeth and took a threatening step forward.
“Now, now,” he chided. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you, Freya. You wouldn’t want me to press this little button and end their petty little existence, would you?”
We tilted our heads to the side, eyeing the control in his hand. Attached to the control were a series of colored wires that led back to a small device that sat at the base of my mate’s feet.
“Inside that box is pure silver dust.” He smiled darkly. “If you don’t do exactly what I say, little Freya, I’ll press this button, and they’ll drown in their own blood.”
Another growl. He had me right where he wanted me.
How had he done that?
We were alone in the mine. There wasn’t anyone else here. No High Council, no guards…there was no way in hell Damien had managed to overpower both of my mates. And what about the rest of the club? Where were they?
He had to have had help, but who?
I doubt the High Council would have allowed him to carry out the sacrifice on his own. They would have needed to be involved. It was tradition. So why was he alone?
“Pay attention to what I’m saying, whore,” he screamed, stomping his foot. Oh, the little baby was throwing a tantrum. “Shift back into your human form, Freya.”
Not gonna happen.
I’d be naked.
“Let me rephrase that.” He took a deep breath. “Shift back into your human form or your lovers die.” Our head whipped around to look at our mates. Their eyes were nearly swollen shut, and knife marks littered their exposed torsos. They screamed through their gags. I didn’t have to know what they were saying. I could feel their agony and pain.
They knew what was about to happen.
Without having to think about it, my wolf gave up control, and I shifted back into my human form. The ground was cold and dusty beneath my knees, my human body shivering from the lack of heat.
“Very good,” he growled. With the control still in his hand, he marched toward me, hand snatching at my hair and pulling. I winced but refused to give him the satisfaction of crying out in pain. There were manacles nailed into the wall. If he wonderedwhy I didn’t put up a fight, he didn’t express it, but I could see the weariness in his eyes.
“I wanted to fuck you before I did this, but she said I’d already had my fun so…”
Wait…she?
There wasn’t time to process what he’d said before the edge of the knife sliced into my throat. Iron flooded my mouth. I couldn’t breathe. Fuck! I couldn’t breathe. My chest stuttered. I was faintly aware of the warmth spreading down my neck and chest. Screams. They were screaming…my mates…
Moon Goddess, please…
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Pain lanced through my heart as the blade slid across my Little Red’s throat.
I was going to tear that sniveling coward limb from limb and then let him watch as I tore his beating heart from his chest. We’d been conned. Lied to. Ambushed. By one of our own. She’d been a snake in the grass this entire time, striking when we least expected it. Every lead we’d had on Delta, every move we made, and every shipment that had gone missing.
The men that had been killed.
It had all been because of her.
And we’d been blind to it.
“I could still fuck her dead body,” Damien mused to himself. “Make them watch…” That man was certifiable. Wolf struggled against his bonds, screaming through his gag, face red and tear-stained. His claws were drawn, but they only succeeded in cutting his own skin. Meanwhile, I’d given up. She was gone. Dead. There was this empty hole inside me now that shouldn’t have been there. I couldn’t go on knowing she wouldn’t be in my bed every morning.
I thought of all the plans I had made for us. Wolf and I together. We wanted to show her the world. Her childhood had been stunted, and her view of humanity was still skewed despite her time in Haven. She’d told us that humans still scared her. She was afraid that one would suddenly pop out with a pitchfork and demand she be killed.
That was what this place had done to her, and likely the other members of the pack who were just like her. None of that mattered now, though, because she was gone.
