Leaving all the dead vampires behind, I raced down the hall toward the door. They had the fallen angel contained with a series of ropes made of Shan’s light magic, though not dead. Angels were hard fuckers to kill. For some reason I didn’t feel the tingle of wards when I entered Kylan’s suite, and a second later I realized why.
The bastard wasn’t fucking here.
A portal glowed on the far side of the room, a sweating witch straining to keep it open.
Another twenty men waited in the room for us in ambush. Caspian and Shan were struggling against the hands holding them and Emmett was snarling.
We’d lost.
I’d been stupid enough to believe we could do this one our own.
“Oswald, we need younow,”I shouted in my mind, hands clenching into fists.
His panic matched mine as I opened the bonds with my mates, feeling all of them. We were outmatched; we’d suspected we would be and hoped for otherwise. This sinking feeling in my stomach had me pushing past Emmett and glaring at Grey. He was Kylan’s right-hand man I’d seen in the pictures and who appeared to be running this show right now.
He raised an eyebrow and stared at me, barely reacting. His shoulders were wide and he looked bigger up close than he had in the pictures. There was something imposing about him, despite his lack of chatter.
“What do I have to do to get Kylan to leave me the fuck alone?” I demanded, crossing my arms over my chest.
I was buying time, waiting for Nolan and Ozzy to get here. Maybe even Altair and Sky if we were lucky. Oswald could still portal directly to me like he could when he was a cat, but he couldn’t bring Nolan and no one was to be left alone in a situation like this.
Grey didn’t take his attention off me, even as Shan growled loudly and thrashed. His light magic was weak at night. If I found him an opportunity, he could rip free, but if not…
“Kylan has no plans to leave you alone.”
“Why in the fuck not? I’m just another Omega. I bet he has access to plenty.”
Not that I would wish that fate on anyone else, either, but his obsession with me was nonsensical. He could buy an Omega. He didn’t need to chase one, expend time and resources and labour in pursuit of one.
The elevator dinged down the hall.
Masculine shouts echoed down to us, and I fought to avoid showing my shock.
Oh, we were so fucked. There had to be thirty guys here now. Elite. Ready to fight and kill if need be, even when it came to me. Nolan and Ozzy couldn’t get here fast enough.
We needed to flee, and ifIwas the one to say that, it was an imminent need. I hated fleeing. It killed a little piece of me to have to do it, but I wouldn’t allow Kylan to kill any of these five big pieces of me — aka, my mates. I glanced around the room, trying to determine the best way to do this. The second I began drawing the runes for the portal, they would come for me. Could Emmett protect me long enough? Would Shan and Cas be able to rip free from their captors?
Grey watched me with his arms crossed over his chest, not giving me an answer.
Maybe he didn’t know. Maybe he just wasn’t interested in conversing with me. It didn’t fucking matter.
“Don’t come up here,”I said to Ozzy.“I’m portalling us out. You two need to leave.”
I didn’t receive a response, and my heart clenched. They were fine. I would know if they were injured.
Deciding on the best course of action, I murmured the spell to freeze one of Shan’s captors. It gave him the split second he needed to get free, and then he was fighting and I was frantically drawing runes to create a portal. Em covered me without needing instruction, his large form able to block most of the attackers. Shan went for Caspian, but as the portal took shape and began to swirl with colour in front of me, my heart dropped.
Caspian was shoved into their portal.
“No!” I yelled.
Shan lunged for him, grabbing his hand and trying to pull him back out. The portal had him, though. Caspian disappeared and I shouted a spell to stop the man trying to push Shan through too.
Adrenaline thrumming in my veins I screamed for him to get over to me, my words lost in the chaos, and he hesitated as I’d known he would.
The hesitation cost him his chance.
My spell broke under the strain and men grabbed each of Shan’s arms in bruising grips. They pulled him struggling through the portal, bringing him to fuck knew where, and Grey followed behind.
