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“You’re supposed to be dead,” Brodie said.
Their father smiled. “Boys. It’s wonderful to see you.”
“Please let Jesska go,” Connall said.
“No, Con. I need something from Kaspar, and she’s going to help me get it.”
Kaz?
It’s okay, baby. I’ve got you.
Technically, he’s got me.
“Release her,” Kaspar demanded.
“What are you doing here?” Kade asked. “Where have you been for the last hundred and fifty years?”
“I will explain,” Erik Gunnach said. “But for now, I need the girls.”
“You will not get anywhere near my girls,” Ari said with a scowl.
“I had them once,” he said. “Alice stole them from me.”
A feminine gasp was heard from upstairs, and then the temperature in the room dropped. Erik’s arms were pried from Jesska’s throat, and he was thrown to the ground. Jesska didn’t take any time to be shocked or wonder what had just happened; she rushed for Kaspar. He pulled her into his arms and held her.
Erik writhed on the ground, his hands stretched out and his face turning red. As he appeared to try and fight whatever was controlling him, his appendages looked like they on strings, moving in weird positions that arms and legs couldn’t naturally do.
“Girls!” Ari bellowed up the stairs. “Enough!”
“How are they doing that?” Jesska asked.
“When they are together, they can do things we can’t even fathom. This is apparently a quick and easy one.”
Kade’s head of security, Alasdair, rushed from the back of the house, Austri and Jóvin following, and secured Erik with handcuffs, sitting him in a metal chair Alasdair had dragged in from outside.
“Those won’t hold, Ali,” Kade said.
Alasdair held up his gloved hands. “They are covered in Red Fang.”
“Good thinking.”
Alasdair gave Kade a “ya think?” look as he carefully removed the gloves and pulled a syringe out of his pocket. “Backup if we need more.”
Sophia came running down the stairs.
“Sophia, get back here,” Megan called.
Sophia ignored her mother and rushed to Ari. “Did it work, Papa?”
He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her close, kissing the top of her head. “We’ll discuss this later, elskan.”
“But it worked, huh?” she pressed.
“Já, baby, it worked, but that doesn’t mean you should have done it.”
She ignored him, clapping her hands. “That’s so awesome.”
“Sophia,” Megan hissed as she joined them. “Not cool.”
