Page 55 of Unmasked Prophecy
Wolfe’s voice cuts through the haze, cold and hard. “Is it certain?”
“Yes, it’s certain,” I scream, my voice breaking. “So now I am stuck here with you, and the cult is never going to stop until they take this child from me. So, you might as well fucking kill me,because keeping me here is starting a war no matter what. Is that what you want?”
The room falls silent.
“They’re going to take the baby?” Mera asks, her voice laced with concern.
“Yes,” I croak. “They think the baby will save them. This is exactly what they want. I’ll never be safe now. I’ll never be free.”
Mera looks over to Wolfe, her hand rubbing my back. “You can’t let them hurt her, Wolfe. Please.”
Knox mutters a curse, turning and walking out of the room.
Wolfe stands there, his arms crossed over his chest. “I need to discuss this with the club. She doesn’t leave until I say she can.”
“Where the fuck am I going to go?” I snap, my head hanging.
He doesn’t answer.
He turns and leaves the room, the door slamming behind him.
“It’s okay,” Mera says, her arms wrapped around me. “We’ll figure it out, I promise.”
I want to believe her.
But I don’t.
There is no way out for me now.
I’M IN THE SHED WHERETalon and I made love for the first time, my eyes fixed on the fireplace, Mera beside me, as the men argue back and forth about what they are going to do with me. They don’t care that I’m sitting right here, that I’m listening to every word. I feel like a ghost, invisible, already gone.
“Too risky to keep her,” Knox says, his voice harsh. “She’s a fuckin’ liability. You saw how quick they found her last time. We end her now and be done with it.”
My heart lurches, and I can’t breathe. I have never bonded with Knox, that’s for certain, but hearing him say to just end my life is a knife to the heart. It only proves I meant nothing to any of them. I made a mistake, I know that, but they are honestly sitting here discussing whether I live or die as if I’m not even in the room.
Talon hasn’t looked at me once.
Not fuckingonce.
Wolfe shakes his head, his jaw tight. “We ain’t killin’ a girl. And we sure as fuck ain’t killin’ a child. We give her a new name, drop her off in the middle of nowhere, let her fend for herself. Let that fuckin’ cult go and find her and leave us the fuck alone.”
My stomach twists. They’re actually considering leaving me, alone, with nothing. I don’t know how I would survive, out there, pregnant with a cult after me, but it is better than dying, and if it comes down to it, I’ll take option B.
“Can’t trust she won’t run back to them,” Zane argues. “You saw what she did. She’s likely to go back and get them to help her come after us. Revenge is a bitter fuckin’ need.”
“Fuck you,” I spit at Zane. “I’m not a goddamn monster. I was trying to help an innocent child.”
“Shut your mouth,” Talon growls, still not looking at me.
“Why don’t you look at me, or don’t you have the fucking guts to face me before you do whatever vile thing it is you’re all planning.”
Talon’s eyes move to mine, and we sit there in intense silence, my entire body shaking. He doesn’t back down, nor does he look away. Not until someone else speaks.
“She stays until the kid is born,” Kael says, his voice calm but firm. “We give them the baby, then let her go. Period.”
Mera’s eyes whip to him. “You cannot take a child from its mother and give it to them. I will never allow that. Never,” then she turns to Wolfe. “If you agree to that, we’re done. I mean it.”
His jaw ticks.
