Page 33 of Nope, No Regrets
Faust
Iwas more than ready to get to that prison and kill some witches. I didn’t care how Kudan died, just as long as he was gone, but getting exploded because a Fae flew up his nose was something I could abide by. I never partnered with witches. I trusted nothing and no one but my wolf. Yeah, a witchy advantage could help, but they could just as easily stab you in the back.
I already had decent night vision, and these were strange times. There was another wolf down here trying to convince me that sharing my mate was the way to go, and I was about to put a witch’s potion in my eyes, just in case it made my wolf vision better and would help to keep Rei safe.
The only people I should remotely trust here were Rei and Skoll, because Rei was my mate, and Skoll was a fellow wolf. That wasn’t the case though, I even trusted the criminals Rei brought from Silverhold. I didn’t like it, but they cared about her. Everyone here had a vested interest in stopping this, and they weren’t cowards.
Fergus disappeared while Wren was making her potions. He came back knowing which apartments everyone was in, and had disabled some of the sigils that were put up and wouldn’t be noticed. That Fae was pretty fucking handy, and I was starting to understand how the warden of Scorchwood fell so hard.
I didn’t know about mad doctors conducting experiments on prisoners, since that didn’t make the news, but if I even remotely suspected Warden Snow had that planned for Rei, I would have killed anyone involved. I couldn’t explode them from the inside, but I would have gotten creative.
Wren finished her potion and put it into a bottle to cool. Wren was a murderous psychopath, but that shit was going in her eyes, too, so she wouldn’t melt anyone’s retinas off for shits and giggles. I wouldn’t put that past her ordinarily. Everyone seemed happy for her that she’d found a coven that practiced black magic here, but that was just a recipe for trouble.
As soon as the potion cooled, Fergus stepped up and took it first. I guess I couldn’t blame him because he didn’t really know Wren. He disappeared to do his thing, and I lined up to drop that shit in my eyes. I knew Wren cared for Rei, and would never intentionally hurt her, but Rei wasn’t putting a dark magic potion in those beautiful violet eyes until I’d tried it first.
I’d done some crazy shit since I met my mate, including risking my freedom killing Brody for hurting her, and I’d agreed to leave an entire realm just to not have to wait so long to be with her.
So, then it was my turn. I dropped it into my eyes and waited for the shit to hit the fan. I was honestly a little shocked when it didn’t.
I felt a shiver go through my body, and then my already enhanced vision got a million times better. Wren definitely had remarkable skills when she had access to her magic and all the right ingredients. Fergus was back by the time we’d all put the potion in our eyes.
“Everything is disabled. Kudan and Sabrina are in Warden Skinner’s apartments, the ones that she never used, arguing over which one gets to sleep in it. They act like children over the one memory foam mattress in the entire prison, like they aren’t aware of all the inmates sleeping on worthless thin things with hardly any blankets.
“I can take out Kudan. Sabrina has never seen anything like me before. She’ll want to get out of that room. You can either lock her in, or let her run out shrieking and punch her a little. It sounds like she has it coming.”
Autumn was probably the sweetest looking witch I’d seen in my entire life. She had bright red hair, green eyes, and an innocent face covered in freckles. I’d gone to the Phoenix Fire coven for healing plenty of times. They’d healed my entire pack, back when I was just a pup, when a rival pack dumped aconite in our well, and we all got poisoned.
Even the sweetest witches could be pushed to their limit, and Autumn was way past hers.
“Magic takes focus. Sabrina and the rest of those witches fear nothing because of that grimoire. Even with it gone, they were bold enough to try to kill Rei in prison and follow Kudan here, as if they aren’t outnumbered. There’s alotof dark stuff in that grimoire, but nothing like what Fergus can do. Magic can’t do that. I think when Sabrina sees a demon explode, she’s going to feel chilling, paralyzing fear for the first time.”
Wren yawned.
“I’m pretty fucked in the head and have seen more than my share of gore, and that would freak me out, too.”
Now Charley was yawning. Dark witches were a little weird.
“I tried to bring my father back from the dead… but, uh, he kind of came back wrong… and killed many people. That was pretty scary, and I ended up in jail. Exploding Kitsunes is a lot messier than that.”
“Well, get ready,” Fergus said. “When you hear the sound of guts and bone hitting the walls with a lot of force, make sure all the doors are magically locked, unless you want to face punch a High Priestess that is.”
My wolf wanted to rip her to shreds. She came for my mate. She’d tried to kill her on numerous occasions when she was in Silverhold after attacking us in public, outside the jail. Sabrina was dumb enough to think she could take on all of Hell with Kudan’s help.
This wasn’t my kill, though. I’d be justified in doing it, yes, but the Aether Circle hadn’t managed to lay a finger on Rei so far, despite their best efforts. Sabrina took Autumn’s mother from her. Her fate was up to her Autumn. I’d hold Sabrina down if Autumn just wanted to wail on her.
We were as ready as we were ever going to be. Fergus had already left. Amduscias opened a portal, and we all jumped through. It was time to end this.
