She looks between us, and she nods. “What’s the plan?”
Chaz doesn’t answer, but he does make her promise the same thing. “You’re about to see something that I don’t want you asking questions about. Understood? More importantly, you can never tell a soul.”
She purses her lips, but doesn’t respond. “I wouldn’t reveal it for anyone other than Alyssa, Kimber, or Ella. Just agree,” Chaz says.
“Okay,” she says with a touch of uncertainty. “I agree. But what can you possibly do? You’re just a duster.”
Chaz ignores her and turns to me. “I can only assume he has the place rigged to expel any outside magic. Can you still use magic under those confines?”
“I can, unless he has made it strong enough to outdo me—which is doubtful. We’ll see if I can’t mater
ialize inside. But you won’t be able to.”
Chaz smirks, and he looks back toward Sadie. “The two of you are strong enough to work outside the normal parameters of magic. So am I. So here’s what happens.”
Chapter 25
KIMBER
Gavin struts back into our cell, and I ignore the shooting pain that has me silently praying for death. Karma sits up, doing all she can to appear impermeable to his torture. But we’re both spent. He doesn’t give our bodies time to regenerate before he returns to breaking us again.
“Well, you two look sprightly,” Gavin says, whistling as he leans against the wall.
“And you look like a man without any weapons,” I taunt.
Usually that gets a rise out of him, but today he just seems all too chipper.
“And you look like a total tool. Where’s your precious girlfriend, by the way?” Karma asks.
He hates to be asked about Morgana, or so we’ve learned. He’s either really protective, or he just doesn’t like to speak about her.
“She’s fine,” he says, still smiling. “In fact, I’ll make sure she’s really happy later. I’ve had to neglect her over the past five days, as you’re well aware.”
I grimace internally. Only five days? It feels as though my body has been crushed and destroyed for at least three months, and it’s only been five days?
“Oh? Feeling confident you’ll have better luck today?” I muse, feigning the strength I certainly don’t feel.
“No,” he says, chuckling while looking over at me. “You’re both too strong for that. Nope. I’ve sent for my brother.”
My heart stills inside my chest. Gage knows where I am. Thank God.
“You’re lucky a drop of chivalry still exists within me. Though I threatened it, I’ve never touched a woman against her will. Even though I have a feeling one of you would have broken if I had,” he says, smirking.
Karma swallows audibly, and I recoil.
“Don’t worry,” he says, his smile spreading. “I wouldn’t dare. Not my thing. But you’d probably be surprised at how good I am.”
“What?” Karma asks. “Is the flavor you stole from Gage suddenly losing its appeal?”
His smile wavers ever so slightly, and he turns his attention back on the bars. “Gage will do something stupid. I told him he could only have one of you in exchange for my weapons.”
He turns his attention back to us, and I feel Karma deflate from across the room.
“But he knows me well enough to be certain I’ll kill you both. So he’ll come with some plan to rescue you both. But then I’ll have him stuck in here, and whoever he brought. Once he sees me torturing his sweet gatekeeper, he’ll give me the location of my weapons without delay. I bet he’d only have to hear you scream once. Then I can kill all four of you.”
My heart throbs in my throat. Gage is walking into a trap.
“All four of us?”