Page 66 of Retaliation
“My name is Seraphina Nuriela Voldis Bronwen,” she whispered.
Her sea glass eyes shined as she said the name. Was her skin glowing? The light disappeared so quickly, I wasn’t sure if I imagined it.
“The missing daughter,” Andras stated, his voice deadly calm. “And the skeleton key you were wearing?”
“My father gave it to me before he left me behind. Said it protected my mother’s family’s secrets. I came here for them. I know The Obscuritas have my father and my sister.”
“Sara…” Dev’s voice was broken as he stared at the girl with wide eyes.
She ignored him, her gaze locked on Andras.
Andras nodded, confirming her accusations. “And what was your endgame, Seraphina?”
Sara swallowed, but her face remained a hard mask, so unlike the sassy smiles and delightfully violent looks she gave us. “I’m going to destroy them all. Everyone who played a part in murdering my sister, my mother. Every. Single. One.”
I chuckled, leaning against the wall. “Well this is certainly an exciting twist of events.”
Sara’s eyes snapped to mine, and I grinned.
“Your endgame is not so different from ours.”
“Typhon,” Andras growled a warning.
He stared at our girl, uncertainty clouding his gaze. But I could sense her truth. I believed her.
I shrugged him off. “We’re all keeping similar secrets, brother. It doesn’t matter what she knows now. She’s part of this. She has been from the beginning.”
“No,” Dev cut in, his voice shaking with emotion. “I don’t give a fuck who she says she is. She is not part of this. Because we aren’t doing this.”
“That’s not your decision to make, Devon.” Andras pulled his blade back from Sara’s heart, finally in control again.
Sara stepped toward him, unafraid, and her boldness had my dick twitching. More than a siren, Seraphina had angel’s blood. Or Lumens, as they called themselves. The daemon in me ached to taste it. Would she taste like sunlight? I licked my lips and followed her movements like the predator I was.
Her eyes darted between the four of us, and she exhaled heavily. “At first…the plan was to take you all out. I wanted your father to suffer. I was going to kill you first. So he would know what it felt like to have his family ripped away. But…I don’t know if I can do that anymore.”
Sara’s gaze shifted downward, and Andras used the blade to tip her chin back up to face him.
“And why is that, sweetheart?” Andras whispered like a viper stalking its prey.
“Because,” she whispered, her words so quiet, I strained to hear them. I could feel the others holding their breaths as we waited for her answer. “I…want you. All of you. I don’t know what’s happening. But I can’t pretend anymore. I don’t want to pretend anymore.”
Andras dropped his arm, setting the blade on the table. “Unchain the girl. Lock her in the holding cell with food and water.”
“She’s not going to hurt any of you,” Sara protested as Andras walked toward the door.
He stopped, turning his head to the side without looking back. “I know that, sweetheart. I haven’t forgiven her for hurting you.”
He quickly left the room. Dev followed after him, and Sara frowned at their backs.
I knew the stubborn prick would come around, though. He was in love with her and just too afraid to admit it. Levi shuffled over to the Brit and unhooked her chains. Tibby’s legs gave out, so he carried her gently to an adjoining room. He set her on the bed before locking the steel door behind him.
Levi glanced at Sara and cocked his head, eyeing her like a hungry beast. “I’ll grab her some food.”
“Thank you,” Sara whispered with a small smile.
Levi’s lips turned up slightly, and he winked. He wasn’t the type to hold grudges and he’d move past this bump in the road, as would the others. I was already over it. Lumen or not, my blood burned for this woman.
I strode toward her, and she looked up, ready to speak, then gasped as my hands cupped her face and I crushed my lips to hers. Her soft mouth parted in submission, and I growled, twisting my tongue with hers in a possessive kiss. She moaned, folding her arms behind my neck and pulling me down to her. I lifted her off the ground, and she wrapped her legs around my waist. Sara’s body melted into mine, and I never wanted to let her go. She was a feral creature, sent down from another world to torment me. I shoved her against the wall, and her toned thighs squeezed my waist. I pulled my tongue from her mouth and trailed kisses down her neck, licking up the blood from the cut I’d given her. My dick throbbed at the taste of her, and my blood burned at the electricity shooting through my veins.
