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‘See if you can sniff out any scent from it, I say to Valerie through the mind-link, wanting to test her skills too as I glance at my phone.
ADRIANA: 99.9. Maybe get out of there before this thing hits 100, which I think will happen at any minute.
We’re close. My heart thuds as I look up at Valerie, who takes the canvas and holds it close to her nose, sniffing once. She closes her eyes for a second before they fly open.
‘Cassian…’ Her face pales and my eyes flash.
Thought so.
I turn, motioning for her to follow as the confused staff member looks between us. My eyes glimmer as I grab Valerie by the waist and lead her out of the room, searching for Cassian. But he’s nowhere in sight.
‘Where’s he gone?’ Valerie asks.
‘We’ll find him,’ I reply quietly. “Let’s get out of here.”
My phone buzzes again and this time I don’t need to read it to know what it will say.
The chips have been disarmed.
Before I can even relay this message to Valerie the lights suddenly go out and an alarm starts blaring, and then chaos ensues.
Only… did they forget that werewolves can see perfectly well in the dark?
I see a man come in from the back of the hall. He’s wearing a mask, but from his walk, I know who it is. Even as he tries to hide, giving a signal to someone I can’t see, he’s recognisable. I only need to see someone once to spot them the second time and a mask cannot hide you.
“Every single microchip is down, security is breached. Get them back up now!”
I hear someone mutter. I see Cassian raise his hand to his ear.
Is he wearing an earpiece?
He turns suddenly and our eyes meet as the commotion around us seems to fade away.
“Did you not know werewolves can see in the dark, Doc?”
I ask coldly.
His eyes crinkle at the corners. “I did. I also know that their hearing is so much better than humans,”
he replies as he signals to someone out of sight.
Before I can reply, an extremely shrill sound erupts in our ears, the intensity making me clamp my hands over Valerie’s ears as pain fills my head… 1
VALERIE.
Zade’s hands clamp over my ears as the shrill, ear-splitting noise feels like it will tear my head right apart. His hands take the edge off but it’s excruciating, making it hard to breathe.
What about his ears!
Turning, I’m about to cover his ears when he shakes his head, his eyes trained ahead. He doesn’t seem affected, or he’s able to bear it really well.
How?
‘Are you alright?!’ I ask through the mind-link, my heart thumping.
‘Yes. Stay alert. We are not alone,’ he says. I nod, turning towards the masked man.
For a moment I don’t recognise him until I tilt my head, and take in the small things. Trying to pay attention to the things that one would usually miss just as Zade has instilled in me to do. To analyse everyone I ever meet, so if I see them in a different setting… I’d recognise them.
And I recognise the man before me. The slight tilt in his walk, even if he’s wearing a long jacket now, I recognise those shoulders…
Cassian.
‘It’s-‘
‘Cassian. You recognised him,’ Zade says quietly.
I nod. Reaching up, I take hold of Zade’s hands and remove them from my ears. For a split second, the increased sound makes my vision blink dots and my head throb violently, but I’m doing my best to not focus on it.
‘Pull forward your power and will a barrier around yourself,’ Zade guides me and I obey, pulling at the power that is in my heart. The light glow swirls around me as I glare ahead at Cassian.
“What is the meaning of this, Cassian?”
I ask sharply.
“Your people broke the law by destroying all access to those microchips, Valerie. By bringing that entire system that cost this country millions of dollars, you have caused severe losses! For the safety of our people, all werewolves must be apprehended. And we need to get to the bottom of this disease that is being carried and spread by your kind,”
Cassian says, his voice far louder than it needs to be.
From the corner of my eyes, I can see a few people trying to escape stop and look towards us.
He’s trying to instil fear in them. How low.
“That is a lie! I have been helping you research the disease. There is no proof it comes from us!”
“Is it? I don’t think that’s true, Valerie.”
Anger ripples through me. “It seems to me it’s manmade. I wonder who has access to such power to create something like that!”
‘Close off the entrance and get the lights turned back on! We need people to witness this. Anthony, send the signal out for backup,’ Zade says. ‘Anthony?’
His voice is connecting to all our pack members in the area, me included, but the fact he’s got no answer worries me. Zade is calm, but if he can’t contact to our people, it means we are alone in here.
‘Zade, is anyone replying?’ I ask as Cassian watches us intently.
‘No. But we got this. You know what to do. We go to plan C.’
‘Got it,’ I reply. I don’t question why. If he says so, it means we have no other option.
“What’s wrong? Tell me, can no one hear you? You see, we know how to disrupt that mental link I’ve heard about. That and any outside connection. Now do you see why no one is replying? Turn it up!”
He signals to someone else and the intense, shrill sound rips through my head a thousand times stronger.
Zade’s aura flares as I glance between him and Cassian. I see the flash of metal from the left and both Zade and I jump back just as a gunshot goes off, followed by screams as I duck behind a table.
I need to turn the lights back on and I need to give the signal to Sebastian and Atticus’s men! If they’ve done something to this room, then I need to get outside and signal the warning.
“Don’t harm us, we have done nothing!”
Cassian says, and I glance at him sharply. He’s taking advantage of the darkness to spread fear in those trapped inside of this hall to blame us for the shooting.
Well, I’m ready to do what he wanted Anthony to do. But to do that, I need to get out of this hall.
Somehow.
And fast.
I look around, trying to assess which door to use when all exits are surrounded by queues of people panicking as more gunshots are fired.
“You can put on any front you like, Owen. It will not change your fate.”
“What front? we all know that you’re a killer! You are a werewolf amongst us who isn’t even chipped. One who was imprisoned by his own kind! No one is safe as long as the likes of you are around. For our people, I will do anything I need to do! I’m willing to protect them from you! So stop pretending to be a hero!”
A soft chuckle leaves Zade, one that makes me pause and look back at him. “Hero? Who said I’m the hero? I am not Zaia Toussaint, Sebastian King, or Atticus Payne… I don’t play nice. Fuck with me and I will retaliate…”
his voice is soft yet clear above all the thundering hearts, the whimpers of fear from those stuck in this room and fearing for their lives.
I watch as Zade advances towards Cassian, unbothered by the men that are closing in on him. Not bothered that they hold weapons, his blue aura shimmering around him.
“The thing is… I am the one who brought down the system that controlled those microchips. You see, Doc, we are not test subjects for you to do with as you please…. you can try to control us, yet even the weakest of the weak can rise as one, and us? We are not weak. We’re the superior race.”
“But you are alone. I made sure of that,”
Cassian sneers, but he steps back raising his gun.
“That’s a shame for you,”
Zade murmurs as all the men open fire. ‘Go.’ His command to me rings in my head, the gunshots, the screams and the shrill sound making my vision darken.
I want to go back to him, to shield him as that night from years ago returns to me. I look back at Zade, trying to calm down.
He’s ok… He has his aura surrounding him like a barrier.
I need to get out of here!
“Find the woman!”
Cassian grunts as I hear something break and something heavy crashing to the ground.
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