Chaz manages to successfully avoid each of my frenzied attacks, and Gage finally throws up a force field, halting anything else I throw from even coming close to reaching them.
"Calm the fuck down!" Chaz blares, as if he has a right.
"Calm down? Seriously? Calm down?" I ask incredulously. "You just sent my boyfriend to the fucking council on a silver platter. They'll kill him, you stupid son of a bitch!"
I try to crack through Gage's force field, but it holds steady. I need my darkness. Where the hell is it?
"I had no choice," Chaz says, sounding exasperated. "If I hadn't turned him over, they would have known you all knew. Then they would have arrested you. They've already got the damn dark angel. It wouldn't have posed them a problem to take you if they managed to take him. Do you know what would happen if they saw your true fey origins? They'd fucking kill you. That's what they'd do. Then they'd go after your mother and Drackus. We're talking about a full scale war before it's over, Alyssa. Do you understand that? They wouldn't have believed me if I had told them no one from his coven knew about Amy. We'd all be in jail and there would be no one to break them out."
Dray? Shit. They've got Dray, too.
I take several deep breaths as I let his words resonate. "So you're going to help me?"
He rolls his eyes as if I'm stupid.
"Of course I'm going to help you."
Gage drops the force field when he feels me slowly calming down, but when he least suspects it, I knock him and Chaz both on their asses with a powerful shot. They fall to the ground with a thud, and Dice cackles. I cut him a glare, and he smothers his laughter with his hand.
"We need to get out of here. Pine Shore would be better than staying here," Gage grumbles while climbing to his feet. "We need a fool-proof plan. Nothing rash."
I sigh out heavily while walking toward him. "How did they know? How did that lycan find us?"
Gage shrugs. "Is that what you want to focus on, or do you want to get to Pine Shore so we can form a plan? Because we can only do one thing at a time."
I'm almost tempted to strike him again, but instead, I pull him to me, ignoring the small spark between us. "Get us out of here."
Chapter 14
Answers
Soft lips are on mine, greedy hands are scouring my body, and my eyes dart open to see no one is there. My heart beats heavily in my chest, trying to assess what just happened. It feels like tiny spiders are crawling over me, while the sudden abandonment of the phantom touch leaves me bereft.
Freaky.
I head out of the room at Gage's house to join the three men who are planning a rescue without me.
"Too dangerous," Gage says, dismissing whatever plan
lies on the table.
"That's what you've said about everything I've thrown out there," Chaz mumbles, crunching up a paper and tossing it to an overflowing pile of other failed plans.
"If we do anything that risky, we'll all end up behind bars. Then who will save us?" Gage says, sounding haughty and not at all urgent like he needs to.
"Drackus," I say, adding to the conversation and drawing their attention. "And Mom."
Gage rolls his eyes. "Drackus can't save us from the council's prison, Alyssa. It's not like Castine's dungeon. We have to be smart about this."
"I'm sure you're real concerned," I hiss, sarcasm oozing out of me.
He turns his back on me, and sips his coffee as though it's just another morning.
"You're leaking again," Dice says, frowning while pointing his finger at me.
"What?"
"Succubus. You're leaking it again. It's making me all… annoyed. I really need to work with you on capping it off when it's not in use."