Page 3 of Bound By Love
“Destroying themhasto be the way to save the injected,” Saber agreed. “Unless Logan tried some new experiments on her recently.”
“Not in days,” Ronan said. “He’d run out of ideas; we all had.”
“Killing the demons won’t be easy.”
“No, it won’t,” Ronan agreed, “but for the first time since all this injection shit started, we might have a way to save those affected.”
“Have you talked to Juan in Arizona? Did anyone there change too?” Saber asked.
“I did, and none of them have changed. Elena’s the only one who’s come out of it.”
“Maybe it wasn’t the demon, and the mate bond finally succeeded in pulling her back.”
“It could have, but I think it’s doubtful after all this time.”
“And it would be an awfully big coincidence.”
“That it would. If this is true, and the injected will change back when the demon who created them dies, they didn’t experience a true change.”
“Not yet,” Saber said, “but if they somehow get out and start killing, I don’t think there will be any way to save them.”
“I don’t either. We’ll have to kill more demons to find out for sure, and hopefully, we’ll rescue more of the injected when we do,” Ronan said.
“We’ll soon have more weapons with stones to help us with that. My sword worked like Willow’s on them, and it’s an extremely strong blade. Caro can forge the rest of the stones into more swords for us.”
“Good. It’s time we take these fuckers down.”
Saber stared at the quiet night, but in his mind, flames engulfed the trees while screams resonated across the land. Ronan had no idea what awaited them. “It is.”
“I’ll find your sister.”
Saber glanced at Caro as a door opened and closed on Ronan’s end. She remained sleeping soundly with one hand tucked beneath her cheek and an arm above her head on the pillow.
What am I going to do with her?
He couldn’t keep her out of this upcoming war; they needed her too badly for that. And if what he’d seen outside came true, there was nowhere for him to hide her.
Destruction and death crept ever closer; no one would escape if the world burned. Not much ever unnerved him, but the idea of losing Caro did. Before letting anyone take her from him, he’d walk through Hell and back.
Muffled voices came across the line a second before his sister said, “Hello.”
Saber turned back to the door as her voice caused his heart to jump a little. He’d never thought to hear it again, but there it was, hopeful and a little breathless.
He swiftly buried his excitement and the unexpected rush of emotion following it. He couldn’t call it love; he didn’t know or understand that emotion anymore, but something was there.
And he didn’t like it.
“Brie,” he greeted flatly.
CHAPTERTHREE
“Hi.”
She said nothing more, but her yearning came through with that one word. Saber gritted his teeth as he buried the emotions threatening to rise. This was not the time or place for him to lose control of the feelings he kept so restrained.
“I have to talk to you,” he stated.
“Okay,” she said.
