I felt my skin ripple as she pushed me back. Rowan growled so loud, everyone turned to him. They thought he was freaking out because Garith had raised the knife to plunge directly into my heart. He watched my mate’s face greedily as he moved closer to the bubble. “I’m doing her a favour. You know that, right? A final gift to my very own granddaughter. To save her from the suffering of a slow and painful death from silver poisoning.”“If you lay one finger on her, I swear to the goddess, you won’t be found for years to come.”Garith seemed to freeze. “What do you mean?”“I mean I will take you, and chain you somewhere dark, and cold. I will feed you enough to keep you alive, but I will cut your fucking tongue out so you can’t whisper your fucking magic to anyone. There will be no one to save you, not even your fucking whore of a daughter.” Rowan spun, and his hand shot out, catching Verity by the throat.Her hand trembled around the silver blade, but Rowan squeezed until she dropped it
He ripped the blade out of my lower back and slammed it into my shoulder. I kept my eyes on Rowan’s and my teeth firmly into the meat of my cheek to stop any sounds from escaping. “Oh ho. Look at you. You think that keeping quiet is going to do you any good?” Garith growled.Shannon snickered from where Rowan’s aura dropped her. I glanced down and saw that she had turned her face towards me so she could watch everything happening. Her eyes met mine, and she laughed. “You deserve every fucking thing you get today, Amy.” She sneered as she watched blood trail down my legs. “I can’t wait to watch you die. This will be the best mating gift anyone could have ever given me.”Rowan growled, and it shook my bones. He turned to face Shannon. “The only reason I am not ripping your legs from your body is because I promised Amy that she would get to kill you.” He dropped to a crouch. “But mark my words. If she dies…then everyone here will become a resident of my torture chamber. And I will spend
Rowan’s eyes shifted instantly as he ripped the heart from another guard. “Amy.” He stepped towards me, but Garith reappeared behind Shannon. He smiled as he pushed her away, taking the knife in his own hands. “If I were you, I would tell everyone to stop fucking moving.” Garith shoved the knife deeper inside of me, making me groan, and Rowan' slammed his aura out, dropping everyone but me and Garith to the ground. A power flung outwards, creating a bubble around the two of us, leaving Rowan standing outside of it. “Look at your mate, granddaughter. So strong, so powerful…brought to his knees over a whore.” He snorted as he moved me forward. He pushed me to the edge of the bubble, so close I could count the darker lines of blue in Erubus’s eyes. “Look at how helpless he is.” Rowan crashed against the bubble, his fist pounding on the outside. “Let her go. You can take me. Leave her out of this.” The panic in his eyes was clear to me, but he tried to hide it. I watched his emotions sh
All hell broke loose. Garith whirled away from my knife as I sliced towards him after the guard dropped to the ground. I swung on the next male holding Rowan as the female slipped a knife into Rowan’s hand. She twirled away, ducking under arms reaching for her. One snagged the string to the mask as she slid towards Lynn. Her mask slipped from her face, revealing dark eyes I recognized. Brandon dove for Lynn, but the female, dark and ready, was already there slicing for his face as Lynn cackled. Toya’s grin matched Lynn’s as she sliced for Brandon again. The two twirled around each other, Toya with her knives and Lynn with her claws, slashing at any man that got too close.Brandon tried again but earned himself a nice slice up his arm as Toya danced away. “You stupid bitch.” He screamed as the blood dripped from his fingers. Toya grabbed Lynn’s hand, and out of the corner of my eye, I watched as Lynn twirled Toya in the air, kicking the five men trying to attack them at once. “I may b
Vince shook his head. “No way.”Rowan smiled. “She really is that amazing. And I have to thank you for fumbling her not once, but twice.” Rowan rolled his eyes at Brandon. “If it weren’t for your stupidity in choosing Shannon over there, I would have never found my queen. My Goddess-blessed mate.” He pulled his shirt completely off the mate mark. “Everything is in place for her to take over in my stead.”“You know I will just kill her, right?” Garith smiled. Rowan threw his head back and laughed so hard he started to cough. Garith’s face grew dark. “You can try.” Rowan held up his hands. “But she is stronger than you think she is.”Garith smiled. “It’s fine, I can get my son-”“The one in the caves with Aurora?” Rowan lifted a brow. “Yeah…I don’t think he will be around for long. She’s already dead, and he doesn’t seem like he has a lot of survival skills. If you know what I’m saying.”Garith’s face paled. “No.”“I mean, Vince did say she wanted your servers.” Rowan smiled. Garith p
“To breach our servers.” Vince’s voice was ragged as the realization settled around his shoulders. His face held a dawning horror that was amazing to watch. “What did you say?” Garith turned to Vince, and puffed out a breath, clearly lost. “Why do you look like that? Why does it matter?”Everyone turned to Vince and saw what Garith was talking about. Vince was pale, too pale. Sweat was beading on his forehead, and his hands were balled into fists. “Our servers…” His heart rate picked until it sounded like it was pounding in his chest.“I don’t know what the fuck you are talking about, Vince. What the fuck is a server? EXPLAIN.” Garith lost the tiny grip he had on his anger. His aura slammed out, and everyone trembled on their feet. I had to force myself to drop to my knees.Vince stumbled closer, clearly affected my the other Alpha’s power. “My server that I had Rick managing.” Garith waved his hand in a circle.“You are still not making sense.”“The members of the brotherhood. Our p