"What?", I stared, stupefied. "Does Jacob know we're doing this?"Sydney scoffed, "I thought you would be gunning to make him rue"."Rue? In exchange for my safety?""You'll be safe", Sydney shrugged, pulling into the parking lot of the packed club. And when I meant packed, you'd think they were offering up a thousand dollar bonus. "I still don't understand what we're going to do here", I said, looking around the premises of the club and getting the creeps. I still didn't know how I had found myself from here to where we had seen Taenar's hideout. I wondered if Jacob had gone back there to investigate the hideout. Obviously they wouldn't be dumb enough to still be there after letting us go."Well girly here wants to search for the bloke named Michael""Michael?"I frowned at Dick. We were heading towards the throng of people lining up outside the club. "He's the one that I was talking about". "That did the thing"Dick used his hands to gesture at himself and it clicked in my head.

Playlist- The power of love- Celine DionEveryone stayed quiet and watching...the questionable silence thickened the air.Dick blinked rapidly, glancing around at us in confusion.Well, I was more confused than he was, so he should probably get in line."Dick", Sydney called and he stared at herShit. This was getting totally out of hand."Your blood was supposed to heal him. How come it worked overtime and wiped him out?", I sassed, stressed and frustrated out of my mind.This was most definitely not how I saw my night going.I was hungry and clammy and fucking tired of it all. When was it going to end?The back and forth was tedious and tiring. You take one small step today and the next, you're taking a huge leap back."Something happened to him", Jacob broke the silence, his sleek loafers sounded against the floor as he walked up to Dick. "No shit", I mumbled under my breath and looked around the room for a place to sit or at least perch on."How did this whole situation happen?",

No, I shook my head rapidly, my eyes still wide with shock. It wasn't possible.Michael smiled and walked into the house, his eyes scanning the place.Sacha, the thought flickered in my head. Sacha was in the kitchen. He was going to see her if she stepped out."How've you been, darling. Did you miss me?" Michael asked, tilting his head a bit as his cold and callous eyes met with mineHow had I never noticed this before?How had I not noticed the cold and calculating nature behind his eyes?"What do you want?", I managed to ask even as my head was going haywire with what to do. "A lot of things, sweet cheeks", He answered and Sacha chose that horrible moment to step out. Her eyes were wide and there was a butcher knife in her clenched fists."Get out", she seethed and the tension in the air grew more rigid.No, I screamed in my head. Michael was dangerous, surely she was bluffing about confronting him with a butcher knife.I stepped in front of her as Michael's smile grew and his fan

Jacob's POVGreen eyes stared at me, his eyebrows quirked up in askance but I hadn't been paying attention.My mind was far away from here, my lungs felt tight with every passing minute. Questions swarm through my head, as I stared into space. What was happening to her at the moment? I knew she couldn't be dead because the bond still felt strong but the worry gnawed at me from within."Boss", Sydney voiced and my eyes snapped to hers. "We are awaiting your instructions".My head went blank for a second as I tried to rehash what Leon had said from where he seated opposite.Seeming to know I hadn't heard him, Leon repeated, his green eyes focused and mean, "Words on the street says a number of trucks had been seen moving into the city".I nodded, finally understanding. My birthgiver hadn't been building her soldiers in my city, she'd been transporting them in, right under my nose.I had given her that power.I had given her the power to bring me to my knees and she knew it. My lungs

This had to end. The damage was already enough, the casualties, the people being locked up in their houses from the fear of what was going. From the panel board, I could see Leon and his team had already arrived at the garden center to help rescue the injured. What exactly did Adriana want? For Jacob to concede the city to her?“She knows St. Laurent is in the city council building”, the vampire that had been put in charge of babysitting me alongside Sydney spoke up.My eyes widened. Jacob was at the city building? He was at the very place 200 bots surrounded at the moment?“What?”, I croaked out. “Why?” “I thought he evacuated along with everyone”“Indirectly this is a fight for his city. You didn’t expect him to cower and hide at the face of his mother”, Sydney retorted, throwing her hair back as she watched the screen with searching eyes. I hadn’t even known when she had appeared.“But he can’t seriously think of facing her alone. See the army she has amassed. This doesn’t even