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Chapter 169

I was sitting in the SUV about fifty yards from the warehouse trying not to completely my mind.The whole glamour thing had been their plan from the start. The spell would make Luca look exactly like me, sound like me, even smell like me to anyone. It would hold for about an hour, less if he shifted or got injured badly enough.“It’s the only way,” he said. “Jonathan wants you specifically. If he thinks he has you, he won’t look for you.”And I’d agreed because what else was I supposed to do, but now I was sitting here listening to sounds of crash and these awful shrieks that made my skin crawl from inside the building and I was starting to think I’d made a terrible mistake.My chest ached. A kind of deep pressure right behind my ribs that got worse with every passing second and I knew it was the mate bond trying to tell me something is wrong.“He’ll be fine,” I whispered but my voice shook and I didn’t believe it.Jessica’s hands were glowing this faint green color on the steering

Chapter 170

The thing about being absolutely terrified is that your brain does this weird thing where it notices the stupidest details.Like how Jonathan’s cologne smelled expensive even from across the warehouse, or how the lights made everyone’s skin look kind of greenish or how there was this piece of broken glass near her foot that would’ve been pretty if the circumstances weren’t completely horrifying.Lily’s heart was doing that thing where it feels too big for her chest and she couldn’t get enough air no matter how deep she breathed and Jonathan was walking toward her like he had all the time in the world.“Come here, little hybrid,” he said again, and his voice was soft like he was coaxing a frightened animal. “Let’s not make this harder than it needs to be.”Behind him Luca was thrashing against the vampires holding him down and screaming at her to run but her legs weren’t working properly.He was holding his own but he couldn’t get to her, couldn’t break through the circle they’d formed

Chapter 171

The word came out strangled and shocked and almost funny except nothing about this situation was funny, and when the old vampire’s eyes landed on Jonathan the younger vampire actually stumbled backward like he’d been hit.King Corvus didn’t say anything for a long moment and the silence stretched out until Lily wanted to scream just to break it, but her throat was still raw from whatever she’d done earlier and she didn’t think she could make a sound if she tried.“Jonathan,” Corvus finally said, and his voice was quiet. “What is the meaning of this?”Jonathan straightened up and tried to pull himself together, tried to look in control even though there was still black blood on his face. “Father, I can explain, this is for you, for us, I’m getting the hybrid’s blood like you wanted and—”Corvus raised one skeletal hand and Jonathan’s words just stopped like someone had hit the mute button, and his hands flew to his throat and his eyes went wide and terrified as he clawed at his own nec

Chapter 172

“What—” he started to say, but the word came out strangled.His hands flew to his own throat and he was making these awful choking sounds, and black smoke started pouring out of his mouth and his nose and even his eyes, and the smell of burning flesh filled the warehouse.“What IS THIS?!” he managed to scream before his skin started cracking like old pottery.The cracks spread fast, these spiderweb patterns racing across his face and down his neck and across his hands, and everywhere they appeared black smoke poured out and the flesh underneath looked raw and burned.He finally tore himself away from her neck and Lily dropped like a stone, hard enough to knock what little air she had left out of her lungs, and she just lay there gasping because her entire body felt like it was being cooked from the inside.Corvus stumbled backward and his hands were clawing at his throat and his chest, trying to stop something that couldn’t be stopped, and his screams were getting higher and more desp

Chapter 173

The car went very quiet.Then Cain said “Okay then” and the speedometer needle crept past ninety-five.There was a beat of silence and then Naomi spoke up from the back, her voice quiet and a little shaky. “Her bite looks wrong”.Everyone turned to look at her and she was touching her own neck where Jonathan had bitten her, the two little scar msrks barely visible now.“When Jonathan bit me it was just two holes and it hurt like hell but it looked normal. Like a bad hickey or something.” Naomi’s hand moved to point at Lily. “But hers doesn’t look like that. The skin around it is turning gray and it’s hard, like scar tissue but worse, and those black lines—I didn’t get black lines.”Luca looked back down and Naomi was right. The wound itself was changing, the edges turning this weird silver-gray color and the flesh around it hardening.Lily convulsed and her eyes flew open but they’d rolled all the way back in her head showing nothing but.“Okay I think I remember that’s new,” Riley sa

Chapter 174

“When that happens, the host dies. Every single time. There’s never been an exception.”Luca’s fist came down on the side table beside the bed and the entire thing collapsed in on itself, and everyone in the room flinched except Aurora who just stood there with her blind eyes fixed on nothing.The wood splintered and the lamp that had been sitting on top crashed to the floor and shattered.“There has to be something.” Luca said, and his voice was shaking in a way that made it clear he was seconds from completely losing it. “There’s always something, some spell or some cure or some—”Aurora held up one wrinkled hand and Luca’s words died in his throat because the old priestess looked like she might actually hit him if he didn’t shut up.“Let me finish, boy,” Aurora said in a sharp voice. “I didn’t say there wasn’t a way. I said there’s never been an exception, and there hasn’t, but that doesn’t mean we can’t try.”Luca forced himself to take a breath and it hurt going down, like swallo

Chapter 175

The second Luca’s fangs broke through skin, Lily’s entire body went rigid.For a heartbeat nothing happened and Luca thought maybe this was it but then her eyes snapped open and they were completely wild, her pupils were blown so wide there was barely any color left.Her back arched off the bed so violently that Luca heard the crack of her spine, and a scream tore out of her throat.It was this high-pitched keening wail that made his ears ring and his wolf recoil, and then every single window in the room exploded.Glass flew inward in a glittering spray and Luca threw his arm up to shield his face, shards slice through his skin. Lily was still screaming, her hands clawing at the sheets hard enough to shred them.He tried to pull back, tried to release her neck and get some distance.But his body has other plans, his wolf surged forward without permission and Luca felt his bones start to break and reform.The shift took seconds but it felt like hours, and when it was done he was in hi

Chapter 176

Chapter 176Then she bit down on his shoulder and the pain was so immediate that Luca’s vision went white.A roar tore from his throat before he could stop it and somewhere in the back of his mind he registered that he was making noise that would bring the entire pack running.He was right.The door didn’t just open, it exploded off its hinges as Cain crashed through it in human form with his eyes already shifted to wolf-gold and his claws fully extended.“LILY!” Cain’s hands were on her shoulders before Luca could even process what was happening and then his brother was yanking her backward with enough force that her fangs ripped free from Luca’s flesh.The tearing sensation made Luca’s knees buckle and he hit the wall hard, his shoulder screaming in protest, he could feel blood running down his chest and soaking into his shirt in warm pulses.Cain had Lily in some kind of hold with both arms wrapped around her from behind, but she was thrashing like a wild animal and her strength wa

Chapter 177

The pressure on his wrist lessened and Luca forced his eyes open even though his eyelids felt like they weighed a thousand pounds each.Her eyes were flickering rapidly now, black to violet-gold and back again like two people fighting for control of the same body, and each seemed to last a little longer.Black. Gold-violet. Black. Gold-violet holding for two seconds. Black. Gold-violet holding for three.Then the gold-violet stayed and her pupils contracted, Luca saw the exact moment consciousness returned to her eyes.“Luca?” His name came out quiet and confused and entirely her, the relief that flooded through him was so strong it almost knocked him over. “What—what happened? Why are you—oh god, there’s so much blood—”Her eyes dropped to his wrist still caught in her grip, to her mouth stained with his blood, to the wounds on his shoulder and palm, and her face went through different emotions in two seconds before landing on absolute horror.“Oh god.” Her voice broke completely. “

Chapter 178

Jonathan was kneeling in with his hands buried wrist-deep in ash, the fine gray powder was coating his skin, getting under his fingernails. He couldn’t stop sifting through it even though he knew there was nothing left to find.His father had been reduced to this.The walls around him were scorched black in places, massive blast marks spider-webbing across the walls. Blood was everywhere. On the floor. Splattered up the walls. Dried in pools near where the fight had gone down.Half the ceiling had collapsed during the fight. Chunks of concrete littered the floor.More vampires had shown up in the last hour. Word traveled fast when a king died. They were hovering near the edges of the room like they were afraid to get too close, whispering to each other in voices they thought he couldn’t hear.He could hear every word.Jonathan threw his head back and screamed.The sound bounced off the broken walls and several of the younger vampires stumbled backward. Jonathan let everything pour out

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