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They all complied and the moment they had a hold, he teleported them into the living room and next to Liv, who jumped.

“Dr. Sabin?”

“Oh, Hunter, thank the heavens you’re okay. Dr. Gaines. Um, this will sound weird but what are you doing here?”

Hunter cleared his throat. “Zahava and Damian kidnapped them from Standard over four years ago. I have to go back, we haven’t killed them yet. In the meantime, can you get them some food and a place to sleep? You guys don’t look healthy.”

“No offense taken. Thanks for getting us out of there,” Dr. Alexis said.

“I’ll care for them. Bring everyone back.” Liv’s voice wobbled, always concerned for her family when they were on a mission.

Hunter hugged her. “I will.”

He closed his eyes, picturing his mate, he popped out and smiled when he felt Neri’s hands on his biceps.

“I can sense her again. I think they went into a room and masked their sound as they regrouped. They don’t have many shifters left, not enough to distract us at any rate,” Neri said.

“Since the shifters won’t be a problem, we need to concentrate on Zahava and Damian. Damian will keep her out of our reach, so we have to find a weakness in the immortal and take advantage of that. Neri, you have Zahava. We can’t keep her alive, although she’s still human.”

Axel scoffed. “How do you know they haven’t ditched us and headed out of state?”

“Because she took a long time to build what she sees as her empire. She hid the building in plain sight and she even kept five people hostage for four years in the same place. There’s no way she’ll give up what progress she thinks she’s made because of us,” Neri said.

“You’re right there, Nerissa,” Zahava sneered.

Damian stood near the doorway, his face blank and his arms crossed over his chest. Zahava stood in front of him, holding out a gun and trained it on Hunter’s head.

“Holding a gun to another’s mate is the best way to die a painful death,” Ara growled.

The crazy bitch fired at him and he teleported in time to miss being shot. When he teleported back in, she had turned the gun on the rest of the group who had ducked out of the way. The shots were ricocheting off the metal cabinets, the tiled floor, and the steel doors surrounding the room, but no bullets hit their intended target.

Neri let out a roar, more intimidating than anything that had come from Axel in his lion form, and stalked forward.

Zahava’s eyes widened, and she slid the empty magazine out of the 9mm handgun and slammed back a fresh one. She lifted the gun and pointed it at Neri, pulling the trigger and shooting her in the shoulder.

As if it were happening in slow motion, blood splattered the pristine white room when the bullet went through her and blasted through her skin and tissue, exiting near her shoulder blade. But Neri never wavered from her forward momentum, but when Zahava huffed out irritation at not killing her, raised the gun again.

Neri disappeared and reappeared in front of Zahava. Her right hand clamped onto the wrist of the hand holding the gun and squeezed the two bones until a loud crack echoed throughout the quiet, tense room. Extreme pain replaced the sneer on Zahava’s face. Neri held onto her wrist, kept her gaze locked on the woman who sank to her knees, writhing in pain.

Hunter chose that moment to appear behind Damian. But before he leapt up and put a chokehold on the fucking giant, Damian disappeared. Axel roared when Damian landed on him. Ax’s reaction was immediate. A loud ripping of his clothing made Hunter pause, and he turned and watched as Ax shifted into his lion form.

“That’s the fucking worst idea ever, Ax. You’re too fucking huge for this room and you’ll destroy everything,” Gunnar shouted, but paused before he continued, “Never mind. Wreck the place.”

Ax flipped onto his stomach and swiped at Damian, snagging a claw on his side and ripped open his skin, dripping blood onto the floor.

Instead of disappearing again, Damian held out a knife and held it in his right hand. He drove it down, ready to plunge it into Ax’s chest after the lion’s latest swipe missed, but Ara appeared from his left and shouldered him off Ax and straight into a steel door that caved in with the impact. When he stood, he left a splatter of blood behind and disappeared.

Zahava still writhed under Neri’s hold as Hunter and the rest kept their eyes open for Damian’s form. Neri jerked on Zahava’s wrist a second before Damian appeared behind her. He reached for Zahava, but Neri switched hands, holding the screaming woman with her left one, as her right arm swung around.

He noticed her nails had turned into claws and when she struck Damian in the same spot as his previous wound, her nails dug in. Neri clenched her hand into a fist and when she ripped her arm back, she took a chunk of Damian with her. He sank to his knees, clutching at his bigger wound.

“That motherfucker, is for touching my mate.”

As Neri’s focus was on Damian, Zahava struggled to pick up the gun.

Can I kill Damian angel or do you want both?

No, by all means, he’s all yours.