Page 94 of Love Bites Hard

We had to be in the pack’s parking garage. I’d been there a few times—it was under Wolf Manor.

“Away.”

Shit.

That wasn’t good.

She opened the door of a white SUV, and eased me inside.

If she wanted me dead, I assumed she would’ve been more violent.

I leaned hard against the door after she shut it, closing my eyes as I waited for my head to stop spinning.

It didn’t.

When I tried to open my eyes again, everything was blurry.

She started the car, and I finally passed out when she backed out of the parking space.

twenty-one

IZZY

I was sweaty,trembling, and insanely nauseous when I came to. My heart pounded in my head, and my entire body ached.

My mind went back to the hallway immediately, and I tried to reach out to Porter, but I couldn’t feel the pack’s link at all.

The poison might’ve knocked out the pack link, but it couldn’t touch our mate bond. He would know exactly where I was, which meant he was coming for me.

I just had to survive until then.

And considering he hadn’t found me yet, it seemed safe to assume I hadn’t been unconscious for long. That was good.

I felt my stomach start to churn, and immediately rolled to my side. I moved just in time to vomit all over the floor.

When I opened my eyes, I looked around the room, trying to figure out where I was. I was a lot less dizzy than I’d been before I passed out, so that was good.

The space was large for a bedroom, with walls that were covered in brown paneling and a walk-in closet whose door stood open. The darker wood flooring was weathered and scratched. It was nearly black in a crisp rectangle where I was laying, which made me think there had been a bed there for a long time while the sun shone through the wall of windows to my right.

“Disgusting,” a male voice growled, barely glancing over at me from behind his computer. The desk he occupied was elegant and oversized.

I partially expected to find Evan there, wondering if he would’ve betrayed Porter alongside his fiancée, but the guy beside me wasn’t Evan.

He actually looked a lot like Kim.

Shit, was that her brother?

The one who hated Porter and had let his own fiancée die without standing up for her?

“If you’re going to kill me, just get it over with.” I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand. It tasted foul, but there was no water nearby for me to rinse with.

The guy ignored me.

I heard the sound of a message being sent, and a minute later, Kim stepped into the room.

Her nose wrinkled when she saw the vomit on the floor, but she focused on her brother. “Ready?”

“Yeah. Are you guys?” he checked.

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