Page 76 of Night Sector

Cillian nodded. “And told him to work with Fritz on how to handle the situation with Quinnlynn.”

He went on to explain how Fare had used his dream connection to Fritz tosuggestthat Alphas couldn’t be trusted, to plant seeds of doubt about what really happened with the MacNamaras, and urged him to ensure Quinnlynn didn’t take a mate too quickly.

The whole purpose hadn’t been to send her on a mission throughout the globe, though.

The point had been to scare Quinnlynn into running back to the Sanctuary for safety, with the expectation that she would take the MacNamara diamonds with her.

“They would have exploded when they hit the barrier, killed the last living member of the MacNamara line, and taken the enchantment down with it,” Cillian concluded.

“But why go that far when all he really needed was the location of the island?” Prince Tadhg asked, his brow furrowed. “He was mated to Kyra, right? I assume she’s been living in the Sanctuary all this time?”

Cillian hadn’t revealed her name as part of the conversation, but her reputation as Fare’s killer had made her a bit infamous in Alpha circles. So I wasn’t surprised that Prince Tadhg knew her identity.

“He didn’t know the parameters of the magical barrier,” Quinnlynn murmured. “He thought it had to be down for him to pass.”

Because Fritz had never told him anything about it. Anytime Fare had asked about the Sanctuary, Fritz had woken up and forgotten all about the dream. And Myon hadn’t been able to detail anything about the enchantment.

It also seemed that after the years, Fritz had started to realize that something was going on in his head. That was when he’d made that prerecorded video and set up a fail-safe to turn on an auto-record feature in his personal areas should he ever switch off the island security feeds.

Because he knew he would never do that willingly.

“What happened next?” Prince Cael asked.

Kieran explained how he and Quinnlynn had discovered that the diamonds were draining her power and how he’d taken them off of her and through the barrier. Then he’d thrown them over the ocean just before they exploded.

“The only reason it didn’t detonate upon her initial arrival was because she’d shadowed into the Sanctuary originally,” Cillian added, explaining what he’d learned from Myon. “The spell was cast to only activate if physically taken through an enchanted boundary; it didn’t factor in shadowing.”

“Which essentially saved Quinnlynn’s life,” Kieran commented. Then he went on to say what had happened the other night, how the vampires had slipped through the magical enchantment and attacked the island.

There were four casualties.

And over two dozen injuries.

All caused in a matter of minutes.

Which was what had necessitated these meetings. The Sanctuary had been compromised, wasstillcompromised, and needed protection.

“There’s one thing I don’t understand,” Alpha Lykos said slowly. “If the necklace exploded outside of the barrier, then it wasn’t taken down, right? The vampires had the location, I assume from the detonation, but how did they get in?”

“That’s something we haven’t determined yet,” Cillian admitted.

“And why Lorcan is there instead of here.” Kieran glanced at me on the screen before returning his focus to the Alpha Princes. “The Sanctuary is compromised. Which is why we need your help.”

My chin began to dip in agreement, only to tighten instead as Kyra’s roar ripped through my mind.

I grabbed my head, my wolf snarling in response to her animal’s agony.

Kyra!

A sequence of moaned words that I couldn’t decipher followed, her mind seeming to fracture from whatever that bastard was doing to her.

“Fuck,” I breathed, going to my knees.

I was vaguely aware of Kieran and Cillian saying something through the screen. But I couldn’t hear them over the howling in my mind.

Her wolf waspissed.

Talk to me,I demanded.Tell me what’s happening.