Page 246 of The Lost Ones

“Fucking hell.” Kai curses at hearing what they’ve been through.

“Lets get the fuck out of here then.” Levi says to her before turning to us. “Spread out down the edges of the group and behind. Any fighters among you stick to the edges and keep the most vulnerable in the middle.” He orders and everyone nods.

Levi takes point once again, with Ghost perched on his shoulder. The rest of us wait behind as they start to funnel out of the cavern below. I try to smile reassuringly at them but people skills aren’t really my forte and anger at their expense is still riding me hard so I have no idea if I pull it off or not. As they funnel past me I keep my eye out for Rebecca and her team, I don’t see them anywhere and I have an awful feeling that they were part of the group that tried to escape.

We quickly make our way through the halls and I’m glad to find that the woman was telling the truth and they are all fit with no visible injuries. I guess that having injured Centre’s make them less compliant and their gifts not as strong for when they wanted to use them for their own purposes.

Darkness keeps trying to take over my vision at the sheer rage I feel for these supernaturals but I push it back. I’m not sure what will happen if I let it take over but it wouldn’t be a good thing to experiment with right now, that I am certain of. I manage to keep it so its just darkening the edges of my vision, that’s about as good as its going to get with the rage still coursing through my veins and there’s fuck all I can do about that right now. I think it will be a long time before that diminishes.

Humans have a long history of taking what doesn’t belong to them and claiming it as their own and then destroying it completely. I’ve always hated that. Not all humans of course but the history is there.

We run into a couple of guards on the way out, Kai takes one of them out brutally, showing that this situation has affected him as much as its affected me. Kyle takes out another one with almost as much brutality.

“Any trouble?” I call out to Erin as we near them.

“They haven’t even tried to get out.” She says her eye’s scanning over the crowd now filling the hallway.

I raise my eyebrow at her answer and pointedly look at the five guards piled up to the side of the door.

“Apart from them.” She smirks. “Although I can’t take all the credit the guys took out a couple.”

“Much to her disappoint,” Jett grins, “and I quote ‘but how am I goingto beat Sage if you fuckers keep killing them before I can get to them?” He chuckles.

“Sounds about right.” Jax comments.

Kai catches my eye and nods towards the door. I want to get at least some revenge for what these Centre’s and their Bonded have been through but I don’t want to risk them coming after us.

“Erin can you hold up the shield on the door from a distance?” I ask and instantly I have the curious attention of everybody.

“I don’t think so that’s why I couldn’t come and get them with you and the others had to stay and lend me power, why?”

“Repeat after me and then step back, it should hold.” I say as the words form in my mind, I can feel the goddesses own rage fuelling them and I know that this is a decision she approves of.

“Ok.” Erin replies not even questioning me.

I love her and her awesomeness.

“Cibus et posuit in manu excurrit scutum et custodite mihi comburatur." I say slowly and she repeats the words perfectly after me.

There’s a glow of magic before she slowly steps back and it holds in place.

“That should give us a more comfortable escape.” Ty comments although he looks between me a Kai clearly sensing that’s something else is going on.

Whether that’s because he’s seen it with his gift or has just picked up on our restlessness I don’t know.

“Fire?” Kai asks me and the others pause in moving down the hallway to look back at where we are still stood by the doors to the dining room the sounds of laughter and fucking celebration still coming from within and fuelling my anger.

The darkness at the edge of my vision encroaches a tiny bit more.

“Abso-fucking-lutely. Lets do this.” I say crouching at the bottom of the door.

I start to gather my power as a word once again whispers through my mind thanks to the goddess. She gives me knowledge at the same time which means I know that as soon as I say it the shield that Erin created will be lifted off of the ground just enough for us to let our magic free.

Through the Bond lines I can feel Kai gathering his magic too.

“Ready?” I ask and he nods. The ball of flames between his horns glowing brightly as it hisses angrily and his wings outstretched behind him.

I hear gasps as the other Centre’s take him in, in all of his delicious glory and shocked exclaims when my own hair and eyes start to glow.