Chapter 14

Adryan

"Boss, look at what the Lycans sent over."

I stopped drumming my fingers over the smooth, polished top of my desk just as Kane strode in, a tablet in his hand.

"Banner got back to us. Fucking finally," he murmured the last part.

Kane all too roughly tossed the tablet in front of me, the device skittering across the desk. "For fuck's sake. If you want me to look at something on an electronic device, how about not tossing the fucking thing down so hard it's liable to break, asshole?"

Kane just grinned and took a seat in the chair in front of me.

Despite being in my office at Sinners, the club I owned in Ryeka, New York, silence surrounded us thanks to the room being soundproof.

I picked up the tablet and looked at the screen. "I'm a lot of things, Kane, but when it comes to technology, I leave it to the younger bastards who know what they are doing." I flicked my gaze to him. "What am I looking at?"

Kane leaned forward and braced his forearms on the table, a sort of anticipation covering his face that I'd never seen before.

We'd finally gotten information on Sebastian's whereabouts. There was nothing else that would make Kane act so strangely.

He took the tablet out of my hand and started pressing buttons. A moment later he shoved the fucking thing damn near in my face until I growled and snatched it out of his hands.

"Watch it, fucker." I stared down at the screen. It was security footage of the farmhouse in Vermont that we'd helped take down with the Lycans.

The damn place had been a secret underground facility for the Assembly, and after we killed them all, the place had gotten blown to hell.

"Okay." I said that lone word slowly. "You're not showing me anything I don't know."

Kane grunted and reached over to press another button, switching the security feed so it showcased a different area.

I leaned in close and looked at the terrain. I knew instantly what I was looking at.

The same facility Odhran and Sebastian had been trapped in.

I leaned back and looked at my cousin, seeing the strain around his eyes. It had been weeks since all that shit with the Assembly had gone down, since Sebastian had disappeared.

We'd found out through Odhran that they'd taken down that facility too. After that we'd sent groups of vampires and Lycans out all over the world to take out the Assembly one facility at a time.

And the body count was racking up in our favor.

In the passing days of Sebastian going radio silent, neither one of us was concerned. Sebastian was a coldhearted motherfucker and could survive just about anything.

The same blood ran in our veins, so we weren't worried. But as time moved on and we heard nothing from him, I watched as it started to take its toll on Kane.

The brothers were only a year apart and had always been inseparable. I, too, felt discomfort over not having present one of the only people I cared about in my life. But I had a mate that could help fill that void.

Kane didn't.

Although we both knew Sebastian wasn't dead, because we didn't feel that gaping hole of losing a blood relative, I also felt just this… nothingness. And that told me he was very, very far away.

"Banner sent everything they found over." He produced a flash drive and set it on the desk, pushing it over.

"Get to it. What's the climax of this story?"

I watched Kane's grin spread as he leaned back. "The Lycans noticed weird shit in the facility… Otherworld shit, man."

I hummed and stared at him. I leaned back farther, the leather of my chair creaking. "What the fuck does that even mean?" I may be over a hundred years old and part of a supernatural world, but hell if I knew half the weird shit that went on.

The grin that was still on Kane's face had me cocking an eyebrow. "It means Sebastian has gone radio silent because a fucking portal was opened and his big ass was thrust into an alternate dimension."

I wasn't shocked silent many times in my long life, but now was one of them. "A portal?"

Kane nodded a little too enthusiastically. "Yeah, boss. That's why we can still feel him but it feels?—"

"Empty," I finished and swiveled my chair silently to stare at the floor-to-ceiling window that was behind the desk and showcased the main club floor.

I stared at the gyrating humans—and even a few Otherworld creatures—below.

"So what's the plan? What's the next step, because I'm not letting him stay wherever the fuck he's at," Kane grated out.

I didn't answer for a long moment as I mulled it all over, figuring out a plan. When I faced Kane again, he was leaning forward, his expression telling me he was ready to get this shit done and over with.

"I'll let Banner know we're going after Sebastian and see what the fuck is up with this portal. If it's still open, we'll gather a team and go in."

Kane nodded once, his face hardening. "And what if we can't get through?"

It was my turn to lean in, and clasp my hands together. "Then we find a fucking way to get in and get out with him. There is no other option."

A low growl left Kane, and he slowly leaned back. "No other option."

I shook my head. "He's family. Now let's go save his ass."