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Savla.
He reached the female just as the two of them raised their guns. I lunged in front of him even as the gunshots rang inside the room. From their direction as well as behind me. The impact in my chest had me staggering on my feet, spinning me around like I’d been punched, followed by the burning sting of something in my forearm.
My brother’s wide, horrified eyes turned my way, finally distracted from where he’d run for the tiny female crumpled on the floor. I was still in front of them, protecting them, when I heard the bodies falling to the floor behind me. I sent up a small prayer that David hadn’t died while I ignored the pain.
He’s mine to kill.
“Go,” I hissed, shoving at him before I turned back toward the males, my own gun lifting in case they got up. The leaking sensation on my arm had me frowning at it for a moment before I realized it was blood.
Fuck. I’ll look at it later.
Savla lifted the shocked female into his arms with ease, hurrying out of the room, and I stared at the two forms writhing on the ground. They weren’t going anywhere, so I loosened the buttons of my now-torn shirt, peering down at the vest that Dristan had insisted we all wear before we arrived.
There was a damaged section where pain was radiating from my chest, letting me know that whatever the hell it was made of—-and now I had to wonder if it was magickally reinforced—had saved me from the bullet. The wet dripping from where the second bullet had hit my arm called my attention next as the rest of the males swarmed into the room, gunsaimed at the men on the floor. I should maybe do something to stop the bleeding, but I was too interested in what was happening in front of me.
The slimy face of the asshole I knew to be David lifted, fear visible on his face. The fucking coward had expected my mate to be here instead. He hadn’t thought she’d have backup of any kind.
The growl that left my throat was loud in the room and both males whimpered at the sound. The acrid scent of urine filled the space between us and I rolled my eyes, scoffing.
Darak had David on his face, his hands tied behind his back in seconds. Rudgar did the same with the other idiot. I didn’t need to know his name. The fact that he’d played any part in intimidating an innocent woman told me everything I needed to know about him.
I stalked toward David, but Rudgar got in the way. Ibarelychecked the impulse to bare my fangs at him.
“Not here,” he said in a low voice. “It’ll be harder to clean up any messes.”
My eyes flashed to meet his, and I saw the same dark fury there that I felt inside me. With a solemn nod I stepped back, watching as David’s expression cycled between terror, fury and despair.
“I didn’t do anything!” he yelled, trying to pull his arms out of the restraints to no avail. “I was trying to save her! This asshole’s the one who took her!”
The other male snapped out of his blubbering state long enough to throw an incredulous look at David. “What thefuck, asshole? This was all your plan!”
“I have no idea what he’s talking about. Just… just take me to Tasia. I can tell her what he did,” David said, trying to gather his wits again.
I was beginning to realize that this obsession of his hadn’t been kicked out of him yet. But it would be. I had plans for that.
I squatted in front of him, leaning down until we were eye to eye.He pulled back, away from me, until he was almost lying on the floor, his expression one of sheer terror again.
“W-whatever she’s paying you,” he hissed in a low whisper, “I can double it.”
My smile was slow and a tad bit evil. “My mate doesn’t have to pay me a cent to deal with trash like you,” I told him, baring my fangs. “I deal with all her problems for free.”
I fisted his shirt with one arm, standing and lifting his limp body with me until he was dangling a couple feet off the floor, our eyes now even as I kept the same smile on my face. He looked down, swallowing hard and flailing.
“Andyou’rea problem,” I told him in a low voice. “So we’re going to take you on a little trip.”
He opened his mouth to start screaming, but Darak came up behind us, reaching forward to slap tape over the male’s mouth. It made him scream harder, his eyes bulging with terror. The last thing he saw was my grin as Darak covered his face with a black hood.
I turned to look at the other human whose head was also covered while he lay on the floor in the fetal position. I rolled my eyes, shaking my head. The punch to David’s stomach made him double over and Darak snorted out a laugh before dragging his wheezing form away.
Rudgar rolled his eyes at me and I shrugged before grabbing the second male, holding him away from myself so the urine didn’t drip on me. I scowled as I turned to take him downstairs.
Pathetic.
Chapter Forty
Enka
Ididn’t go back home right away like most of the clan did with Hanna in tow. Instead, Rudgar, Dristan and I made our way into a building I’d never seen before. We’d dropped the male that we didn’t know off on the side of the road, uncaring that his eyes were covered and he might get hit by a truck or eaten byan animal.
