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Jake faced me. “Are you all right?”

I buried my face in his chest. He wrapped his arms around me and held me tight.

Damien approached, limping and looking dazed. “What happened?”

On the heels of his question, half a dozen hybrids rushed into the building.

They were hungry for blood.

CHAPTER 26

“We have to get outof here!” Jake said.

Taking my hand and intertwining his fingers with mine, he started running.

“Wait!” I pulled him back and gestured toward Marcus, who was desperately trying to pick his sister up off the floor.

Jake understood, and we faced the incoming hybrids to give Marcus time to get Olivia out. Jake started shooting and so did Ulfen and Khal. I picked up Travis’s discarded gun and squeezed the trigger.

One, two, three times.

My bullets struck two different hybrids, slowing them down. The others hit a few more. One of the monsters—a huge one, his entire body stained with blood already—broke from the rest and came at us. I re-aimed and took several shots. Jake did the same. The beast kept coming. Red rose to the surface, ready to take over.

A storm of crackling magic hit the hybrid in the back. The beast went stiff, then his arms and legs twitched uncontrollably, and finally, it collapsed to the floor. Coming from the side, Damien teetered past us, taking careful steps, doing his best to appear nonchalant.

Marcus was already running the way he’d come in, cradling his sister in his arms. We followed him and got out of the warehouse through the back door.

For a moment, I hesitated. What about Travis?

Reading my mind, Jake said, “Leave him. He knows how to take care of himself.”

Outside, Marcus was already turning the corner, not a single concern over his father. I guessed if he wasn’t worried, I shouldn’t worry either. He had tried to... to what? Hit me? Kill me? I wasn’t sure, but that probably meant I didn’t owe him any concern. Pushing thoughts of him aside, I focused on those who really mattered.

Damien was hot on Marcus’s heels, running this time, if a little drunkenly.

“Eric, are you all right?” I pushed my alpha thoughts forward as we kept running, headed toward the front.