Total pages in book: 104
Estimated words: 98082 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 490(@200wpm)___ 392(@250wpm)___ 327(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 98082 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 490(@200wpm)___ 392(@250wpm)___ 327(@300wpm)
“We believe there is a connection between our mates and Ricci.”
“What do you mean?” Reilly replies.
“Our mates are sisters,” I say aloud.
“Kendrick, do you think my sisters are Venus’s sisters? Is that possible?”
“You are carrying my child from a woman in my past. A woman I shouldn’t have been able to impregnate. At this point, anything is possible.”
Well, fuck me. That explains a lot. I’m able to calm my racing thoughts a bit with this new information. This wasn’t caused by the mate bond. At least, I don’t believe it’s something I might have triggered mating with Taylor.
“So we find Ricci’s daughters and we find our mates?” Ardan asks.
I know my twin too well to think he’s not excited by the prospect of finding his mate, no matter how hard he’s trying to hide it. This is a good thing. Once we are all mated none of us can be enslaved ever again.
We’ve waited for this for so long. Ardan, unlike I, has chosen not to take many bedmates. I understand it. However, he’s been lonely over the centuries.
“It’s not that easy,” Kendrick says, killing some of that hope. “From what Mabruk said, your mates will call you to them at the right time. You will not be able to just track them beforehand.”
“Well, how did you find Taylor?” Ardan turns to ask me expectantly.
“I’ve been drawn to her for months. I didn’t know she was my mate. There were no signs before last night. However, she was attacked, and I was pulled to her.”
“Technically, I wasn’t attacked, really,” Taylor interrupts, rolling her eyes.
I work my jaw. She can think whatever she wants. I know what I saw and felt.
“What do you mean?” Kendrick asks her.
“Ferg asked to buy me dinner. It was supposed to be a date. When he didn’t show and I finished studying, I left.
“He just startled me in the parking lot as I went to get into my car,” she says.
“That’s what she thinks. Her fear called to me. When I arrived, I could smell them.
“The one she calls Ferg is one of them. The others were close by. They were going to take her,” I mind-link to my brothers.
“Did you get a look at them?” Kendrick asks.
“Only the one. He took off. Something other than I spooked him. There was a light of some sort in the trees across from the lot.”
“I don’t like this,” Reilly says.
“I want a crew to head back and see if there’s anything to be tracked,” Kendrick orders.
“Already on it,” Reilly replies.
“So the attacks are the triggers,” Ardan says.
“I hate it,” Reilly mutters. “Although I don’t believe one of the sisters will be mine. I have sensed my mate before. She would be too old to be their sister. I don’t know what she was, so she may no longer exist without our bond. I have long given up on the idea of finding her.”
I turn to Reilly and look at him closely. This is news to me. To find Taylor and lose her would destroy me. I can’t imagine what Reilly has been going through on top of his other shit.
Before I can pry to help my baby brother, in storms Seraphina. I ball my fists and bare my teeth. I know right away she’s here to start some shit. There’s too much going on. I’m not in the mood for her crap.
“Which one is she?” she hisses as she glares toward Taylor and Ray.
Rage rushes through me so fast I can feel the heat waves pulsing from my being. This is a fight Seraphina doesn’t want to start. I’m not in a forgiving mood when it comes to my mate.
“That does not matter. I will put you to ground if you touch either of them. Reel that shit in, Seraphina,” I bite out.
“I am gone for a week and return to hear you have claimed a mate. You said you would warn me, you would give me time,” she growls.
“I did not know the pull would be so great. I couldn’t deny her. I didn’t want to. Reel it in, Sera. I am sorry your feelings are hurt, but it is done.”
“It’s done? It’s done,” she screams.
“I said reel that shit the fuck in, now,” I demand.
“Fine, it is done, and it will be undone.”
Her hands begin to glow with flames. I make my choice in a split second. I’m going to kill her before she harms a hair on Taylor’s head.
“Bradan, no. You will harm the humans,” Ardan links to me before I can put an end to Seraphina’s life.
Kendrick stands to block our mates with his body. My heart drops into my stomach the moment I see what Seraphina intends to do. Ardan is right, but my moment of hesitation gives Seraphina the opportunity to toss one of her flames right toward Taylor and Ray.