Page 104 of Reaper Unhinged
He looks…bad. Like I’m-about-to-keel-over-and-die bad.
“Hunter?”
He shakes his head, one hand going to his abdomen. “Please, just do it.”
“Hunter, what’s happening to you?”
“We could get interrupted at any moment. The super vamps could get hold of Fee at any moment and—”
He breaks down in a cough, and blood sputters out of his mouth.
Motherfucker. “Hunter!”
He holds up a hand to ward me off. “The fucking wards, Cora.”
Shit. I need to do something. Fuck it. All the anchors need to go.
I work fast, using a rock I’ve found to scrub at the paint so that each anchor symbol is broken. The light begins to dim.
Yes. It’s working.
I disrupt the final symbol and stand back.
Any second now.
Nothing.
“Cora?” Hunter rasps.
“I don’t get it. It’s supposed to be deactivated. I disrupted all the anchor symbols.”
Hunter coughs wetly. “The middle.”
“What?”
“The one in the middle,” he enunciates, glaring at me while wiping at his bloody mouth.
Fuck, shit. How did I miss that one? I climb into the circle and hit the final symbol. The lights flicker and go out, and then a hot wave of power surges up from the tips of my toes to the roots of my hair.
“Powering up, baby.” I turn to Hunter. “Do you feel—Fuck!”
He’s on the ground.
I rush over and pull him into my lap. He’s barely conscious and there are blue smudges beneath his eyes.
“Hunter, what the fuck.” I shake him.
He opens his eyes. “Save Fee.”
“What did you do? What… The serum? It’s the serum you took, isn’t it.”
His eyes flutter closed.
I want to jump to Fee, but I can’t leave Hunter to die. He’s her mate. I need to get him help. The lab might have a solution. But Fee…
Oh, God. Yes. “Jasper!”
The air crackles and my tormenter appears. His face is dark like thunder, and he advances on me, ready to claim me and take me out of here. It’s so fucked up how I can read his face.
