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“Then why the hell did you tell me there were four to every female?” she whisper-shouts.
“I was so smitten by you, and I still am,” I add with a smile to reassure her and hopefully get her drawn eyebrows to relax a bit. “Well . . . I was talking about us. When I said that I was thinking about you and us. I didn’t want to scare you, but I also wanted you to be aware that you could be with all four of us if you wanted to.”
She narrows her eyes. “There’s no standard?”
“It varies with each pairing.” I look around waiting for the guys to come and save me from the conversation I just put myself in.
“Anything else you need toclarify,Benji?” she asks.
I grin widely at her, and she rolls her eyes, knowing that I’m about to say something cheesy. “Just that you’re the most perfect woman I’ve ever laid my eyes on.” She scoffs, but her cheeks redden.
Thirty minutes later, they come back. “Place is clean. I can’t get a read on whether or not this space is actually used.” I get what Ash means. The place smells like chlorine, there’s no telling if humans or supernaturals use this place.
We check the rest of the floors and come back with nothing. Az is on the phone with our team. When he hangs up, he relays the information, although we’ve all already heard it.
“So it’s the same on every level. They can’t tell whether or not people actually work here or it’s a hideout for something else.”
“What a waste of time.” Kat’s voice cracks, and the hope in her eyes diminishes. We step into the elevator to head back down to the lobby.
Az takes one look at his mate and loses it. I hate seeing her like this too. “There has to be something we’re missing. Something that doesn’t show up on the plans we had.”
He punches the steel right below all the buttons and the elevator stops. “What the hell?” Tyler questions.
A metal door swings open. We bend down on our knees to take a closer look.
“It looks like we need a badge,” Ash says.
“We’re in luck.” I pull out the receptionist’s badge I’d stolen.
“Hell yeah. Let’s go figure this shit out.” I scan the badge and the elevator resumes, bringing us down to a lower level. This was the difference between our plan and the one the receptionist had.
I look at my brothers and their bodies are tense, waiting for a fight. Right before the steel doors open, we push Kat to the back for safe keeping.
They slowly open to reveal a space that looks nothing like the other offices we’ve searched.
Jackpot!
“What is this place?” Kat whispers. Now I wish she would have listened and stayed behind, but she’s got a mind of her own, and we let her do what she wants because she’s our mate, and we want to make her happy.
“I’m not sure,” I respond. It looks like a facility of some sort. What the fuck is Smart Technology, and how have we never known about it?
We walk through the building with our ears on high alert. We move as a unit the way the council trained us. Fucking pieces of shit, all of them. I know for sure there’s someone controlling them. They’re supposed to have equal leadership, but that isn’t the case. They fear whoever is in charge, and I have a feeling he’s the one that made us do the dirty shit we didn’t want to do. We were able to get out, but since Krissy admitted they were the ones who made her kill the witches to get her magic, it feels like they took away our powers so that we weren’t a threat.
“Uh, guys . . .” The way Tyler’s voice rises in worry has my skin prickling. “I think you should sit this one out, Az. Go to the car and wait for us there.” Az stiffens next to me, but he walks past me anyway. Tyler tries to block him. “I don’t think this is a good idea, man,” Tyler pleads. “Sit this one out.” Tyler enunciates each word clearly as if to make him understand that what’s on the other side will cause Az harm.
Az punches him in the stomach, and it was totally unexpected. “Low blow, man,” I say as Tyler doubles over in pain. I pat him in the back as Ash and I go through.
Kat stays behind to make sure Tyler is alright. She clearly hasn’t ever seen us brawl before. We all like to spar with one another. It’s a stress reliever. I’m sure she will lose her shit when she sees us really fighting in the ring.
I drag my eyes to all the monitors. There are one hundred kids from ages five to twenty-one. They have dark circles under their eyes and look really skinny.
Now I know what Tyler was trying to shield Az from. I drag my eyes to the man in question. He’s still as a statue, clenching his jaw tightly as he looks around.
When Tyler recovers, he comes in with Kat. He has his phone in hand, probably calling Matt.
But what really paralyzes me is seeing the kids in cages. Tyler gets to one of the computers and types something in. I have no idea what the hell he’s doing, but I think he’s trying to figure out the location of the kids and how to get them out of there.
Kat gasps when she sees all the children on the screen, and her face pales. “Are my kids there?” Her eyes roam quickly through every screen.
