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Cars had parked behind us, parking us in.
I managed to get the engine started, but I’d still have to clear a path.
Someone banged on the window on Amelia’s side. She looked up, her eyes wide.
“Someone’s going to pay a whole lot of money for you,” they said to her.
Amelia swallowed hard. “Maybe I can draw them off? Give you all a chance to escape? Or maybe we can negotiate.”
She didn’t sound very hopeful.
“We’re not doing that,” I said.
One of them took a blowtorch to the side of the car.
If they wanted us out, they’d get us out.
But they wouldn’t like what happened next.
Filled with dread, I leaned in toward Amelia. “I know for you, it’s too early to say this. But I’ve been backward and forward in our timeline, and so I know… I love you. There’s no part of the timeline where I don’t love you.”
She let out a cry of alarm, reaching out to grab my arm. “If you see the timeline, then you know if we make it out of here… if they do…”
She glanced back her eyes wide with fear for her siblings and for Shaw.
“It’s not like that,” I told her regretfully. “I know what I feel in the future, but I only catch it in glimpses. It’s not laid out for me neatly. Like I said, half the time I can’t place where it is in time at all. But I love you and I love the little one.”
She frowned. “Little one?”
“Oh.” I frowned, confused again about the timeline. Was she pregnant now? Or would it just be soon? I kissed her cheek instead of answering.
“Liam, you’re scaring me. What are you going to do? You can’t sacrifice yourself for us…” She sounded frantic.
“I can.” I threw the keys back to Aiden. “Lock the car behind me, and get them out of here.”
Amelia wouldn’t leave me if he gave her a choice. Aiden would take care of her.
I threw the car door open. Amelia grabbed for me, but it was too late. I was already slamming the door shut, and Aiden frantically locked the car as soon as I was gone.
I faced dozens of shifters. They circled the car, many of them still human, though a handful of wolves stalked back and forth.
"You don't want to do this," I warned them. "If you’re making deals with Nathan Longroad, you’re going down a dead-end road. He won’t be alpha much longer, and he never deserved to be alpha in the first place."
"Hey, I know him," one of the shifters called. "Longroad kept him chained up in his basement like a dog. The man's crazier than a..."
Red hot fury built up inside me. But the anger I could tame.
It was the love that was uncontrollable.
I snarled and lunged forward. The front row scrambled back, slamming into those behind them. My reputation as a lunatic might serve us for once. Maybe I could chase them off without violence.
Then they converged on me, snarling and snapping. The first one dared to lunge toward me, his ears flat against his head. His jaws glanced past me as I leapt to one side, and I could see surprise on the faces beyond as I locked my arm around his throat, dragging him up against my body. The wolf writhed in my arms, and I suddenly didn't know what to do. I could snap his neck; I'd seen Stone do it. But then this shifter would be dead.
And I would be a monster again.
I threw the wolf, launching him into the crowd. It bowled over several shifters, and a scream went up from one of the shifters. The wolf let out a sharp, pained bark.
More shifters edged toward me, trying to get around me to the vehicle. I wished they would just stand down. I didn't want to hurt anyone.
