70. WAR ACCESS

HENRY'S POV Shaking my head with amusement. "Still the same hotheaded bastard, I see." I smirked and clasped Gray’s forearm in an elongated weird handshake I didn't think I remembered that we made up when we were kids. "Still the same arrogant prick." I looked around quickly for Eli, its best I keep these two apart for a while. Gray chuckled before my eyes landed on the woman beside him. She had bright brown eyes and an air of quiet confidence. My brows lifted. "Your mate?" Gray in a manner I've never seem him before stammered, avoiding eye contact and the girl—Emma, I assumed—cleared her throat. I crossed my arms. "Oh, this is interesting." They have definitely fucked. I arch an eyebrow at Gray laughing. He sighed as she gagged at my eyebrow, pulling me aside. "It’s…..Uh complicated. But listen, Emma has rare abilities. She saved my life, Henry. And she might be able to help us." "Help how?" Gray’s expression darkened. "She gets visions. She sees things others can’t." Emma gi

71. LAST DOCTOR

AZALEA'S POV"Azzy, what's going on?" Lexa asks in a serious tone after the evil doctor leaves. I was sure we were being watched, so I didn't want them to suspect a thing."Do you know where Justin is?" I ask instead, shaking my head."On our way here, I noticed a room just like the one I was in with two hefty men guarding it, so I guess."I nodded furiously. "Lexa, look at me, things are definitely not how they used to be, everything we thought we knew." Tears gathered in my eyes. Everything I thought I knew was unfolding right in front of my own eyes. It was scary. I just had to trust that I could keep myself and my siblings alive like Mum and Dad told me to if Henry also decides to betray me as a sacrificial lamb."I'm so sorry I failed to protect you, but I promise I will get us out of here alive.""I don't understand, Azzy. What are you talking about? What was Kai saying?" She asks, still sobbing"Kai is no longer who we think he is." She nods, seeming to have gathered that much b

72. NO SAVIOR

AZALEA POV "Don't you dare fucking touch him!" I shouted, my face red with fury. Lexa starts shouting through the duct tape too."No more shit like that, alright?" He grabs my face with force as if trying to break my jawline.I can only glare at him as he breaks into another monstrous smile. The doctor comes once again, this time with a gnash on her face almost matching mine."The doc will check if your blood level is enough for another draw." He announces and leaves.She was quiet while checking my blood and vitals, as she usually is, but I couldn't help myself from asking about her face."I'm sure you didn't decide to match with your patient. Who did that, Kai?"At first she doesn't respond and turns to the guards. "She needs to eat something if she's to survive another draw."I slip a scalpel from her tray as she talks to him. If we were to have any chance of escaping this place, I need some kind of weapon."If you do not cooperate, it affects us all." She whispers shakily to me as

73. MATING FURY

HENRY'S POVThe nightmare came again.It always started the same way, me as a child, running barefoot through the woods, the shadows stretching long and hungry, the sound of my own breath too loud in my ears. I could hear him behind me, the headless man, his blade scraping against the bark of trees, a jagged whisper of death. My legs burned, my lungs screamed, but I dared not stop.I tripped.The forest melted away.I was home. Sitting in the living room of my childhood house, the scent of stew wafts from the kitchen. My mother laughed softly, speaking to a woman I couldn’t see. The voice was familiar. Warm. Comforting.For the first time in my life, I hear the voice clearlyAzalea.But before I could move, before I could even reach for her, the scene shifted again. This time, the nightmare did not follow its usual course. My father was no longer the one kneeling, begging for mercy. It was her. Bound, bruised, silver hair matted with blood.And standing above her, blade at her throat, w

74. WATER SHOCK

The ringing in my head had become a constant companion; I couldn't afford to be weak. We had been running for what felt like 5 years but was actually 5 minutes when a sudden blaring went out. That means trouble. If anything, The Hunger Games and other sci-fi movies have taught me that loud, blaring red sounds mean absolute trouble."No, it was through here." Lexa again for the 20th time since we left the room.We pushed through another set of revolving doors, leading us back across the room I was kept in, and she began to panic.Just like clockwork, a rumble of marching feet reached my ears. They found us.Without another thought, we began to run the other way. When I felt like we were far enough, I punched the lock on the door by the right open, and a voice came through the automated lock, which whined in a series of jumbled machine error words. I shoved Lexa into a room as the door opened by a fraction.The goddess was definitely helping us because we seemed to have busted into Just

75. SHOW OFF

Henry's POVWe arrived at the last noticeable location on Azalea's chip, stealthily each soldier dropped from the glider blending into the greens immediately. We all knew the plan, each team knew what to do and in a matter of minutes I would be reunited with my flower, and of course have Ray's head.The sky was still bruised purple, the forest wrapped in thick silence. One by one, my soldiers dropped from the glider, disappearing into the trees like ghosts. We had trained for this.I landed last.The drone went before us, scouting the perimeter for any change we didn't account for. I set up my snipper and good old fashioned binoculars confirming the security was just as we had predicted. I lay flat against the damp earth, binoculars pressed to my eyes. From a distance, it looked harmless, abandoned warehouses, rusted roofs, broken windows.A lie so clean it was almost beautiful."Perimeter matches projection," I whispered.More accurately with the help of Emma, she had another vision b