Chapter 73

Chapter 73

“You know that they’re not going to let us walk out of here alive, don’t you?” Kale asked, listening as the demons dragged Andrew into the woods and-

She didn’t look good, Kale thought, biting back a groan when the pain that had been slowly eating him alive finally reached his lungs. They never should have come back here, Kale thought as he placed his hand over the gunshot wound on his side only to watch blood seep through his fingers and find its way onto the silver chain stopping him from being able to do anything more than breathe, only to join the rest of the blood pooling around him on the kitchen floor.

“I don’t plan on being here long enough to find out,” Logan said with a pointed look as the realization that he was never going to hold his daughter had Kale’s eyes turning silver as he did the one thing that he’d promised himself that he would never do.

“She crawled into my bed,” Kale bit out, watching as Logan frowned in confusion as his gaze flickered to Ashley and-

“Not her,” Kale said evenly. “Elizabeth.”

“You fucking liar,” Logan bit out, his eyes flashing silver as they shifted back to him.

“I woke up with her small hand wrapping around my cock as she whispered in my ear just how badly she wanted to take me in her mouth, in her tight little snatch, and in her-”

“I will fucking kill you,” Logan said, coming to his feet as centuries of control slowly began to snap.

Chuckling weakly, Kale said, “You already are, asshole.”

“She was never in your bed,”Logan bit out, his hands clenched tightly into fists as he struggled to stay where he was.

“She found out what I was. I don’t know how, but she did, and that night she offered me everything if I turned her, but I refused. I threw her out of my bed and went looking for you, but it was already too fucking late by then. She’d already found someone else to turn her.”

“You’re lying. She had no fucking idea what was happening to her! The only thing that she knew was that you wouldn’t save her!”

“Because I had to save you!” Kale shouted, immediately regretting it when Ashley curled more into herself with a broken sob as her hands tightened around her ears.

“Mo ghrá,” Kale whispered hollowly, feeling his heart break as he was forced to sit there watching his mate suffer, knowing that he would never be able to touch her again. Of all the ways that Logan tried to make him pay for what happened to Elizabeth over the years, nothing, absolutely fucking nothing, compared to this.

“She’s not looking so good, Kale,” Logan drawled as Kale sat there, taking in the way that her small body trembled and-

“She doesn’t deserve this,” Kale said, swallowing hard as he stared at Ashley.

“Probably not,” Logan murmured in agreement before adding, “but you do.”

“For what? For protecting you? For getting you out of that fucking alley before they could slit your throat? You were my best friend!” Kale shouted, sick and tired of playing this fucking game.

“And you were my fucking brother!” Logan shouted back.

“I still am,” Kale bit out between clenched teeth only to frown when he heard it.

Soft humming that drew his attention back down and-

Found Izzy, settling on the floor next to him and releasing a long-suffering sigh as she began examining the silver chains attached to his legs.

“What the hell are you doing?” Logan demanded, moving to stop her only to think better of it, but god, did he look like he wanted to spank the small Sentinel’s ass.

“Saving time,” Izzy mumbled absently as she followed the chain linking Kale’s legs and cuffed hands together to where it disappeared behind his back and-

“Son of a bitch!”

-caused fresh pain to shoot through his chest when she grabbed hold of his arm and yanked him forward so that she could get a better look at his handcuffs.

“God, you really are a big baby,” Izzy said with a sad shake of her head that had his eyes narrowing on her as she pushed him back against the kitchen wall before shifting her attention to Ashley.

“What did they do to her?” Izzy demanded as she quickly climbed over Kale, earning a grunt of pain when she accidentally kicked him in the side and-

Oh, fuck…

“You’re pregnant,” Kale bit out as he narrowed his eyes on the little pain in the ass that never should have come here as Logan did the same.

“Chris just can’t seem to keep his dirty little hands off me,” Izzy said with a sad shake of her head as she focused on Ashley.

“I’m fine,” Ashley bit out, only to release a pained whimper that had him cursing.

“You shouldn’t be here, Izzy,” Logan bit out, moving to check the windows to make sure that the demons hadn’t come back yet, only to add, “This isn’t over yet, asshole,” to Kale.

“Just help Kale. I’m fine,” Ashley mumbled as she pulled herself up onto her knees.

“Yeah, you look it,” Izzy murmured, worrying her bottom lip as she watched Ashley press her back against the wall and somehow managed to stand up.

“Mo ghrá-” Kale said, watching her stumble past him towards the pantry.

“We need to stop the bleeding,” Ashley mumbled in a daze as Kale was forced to sit there watching her.

“Get her out of here, Izzy,” Kale said hollowly, unable to take his eyes off his mate as the scent of their baby began fading away. “Please.”

“I’m getting you both out of here,” Izzy said firmly as she came back over and took another look at his chains. “I need the key.”

“Get the hell out of here, Izzy,” Logan snapped, moving to stop her.

“You really don’t want to do this,” Izzy said when Logan reached for her.

“I can assure you that I really do,” he snapped, sending another worried look over his shoulder while Kale sat there, unable to take his eyes off Ashley as she grabbed a stack of hand towels out of the pantry and prayed that they weren’t about to lose their little girl.

“And yet, I don’t believe you,” Izzy said with a sad shake of her head and a long-suffering sigh as she pulled her arm free.

“I don’t want to hurt you,” Logan bit out evenly.

“Because you adore me,” Izzy said, nodding in agreement, knowing that the vampire had a soft spot for her. It was hard not to. She was a Sentinel and they should both hate her, but Christ, she was just too fucking adorable to hate.

“Izzy,” Logan bit out in warning, only to be ignored as Izzy pointed to the chains wrapped around Kale’s legs. “Do you mind getting those?”

“Do you have any idea how long I’ve waited for this?” Logan demanded, his eyes turning silver as he moved to grab her only to stop and swallow hard when Ashley said, “There’s something wrong with the baby,” when her legs gave out and-

Logan was there before she hit the floor.

“Ashley!” Kale shouted, struggling against his chains, desperate to get to her, but the fucking chains wouldn’t give.

“She needs blood,” Izzy said, climbing back over Kale and rushed over to the kitchen counter to grab a knife.

“Is there any blood in the fridge?” Logan asked, gently laying Ashley down on the floor before he moved to go check while Kale lost his fucking mind.

“She can’t drink human blood,” Izzy said as she grabbed a small knife off the counter and rushed back over to Ashley. “She needs our blood.”

Nodding absently, Logan’s fangs slid down as he raised his wrist to his mouth and bit down while Izzy made a small gash across her palm before pressing it against Ashley’s lips. When her blood only trickled down Ashley’s chin, Logan gently pushed Izzy’s hand out of the way and replaced it with his wrist.

“Come on, sweetheart, drink,” Logan whispered softly as Kale struggled to break free. “Key’s in my coat pocket,” the bastard that better pray that nothing happened to his daughter said.

Izzy quickly grabbed the key and rushed back over to Kale’s side and shoved him forward so that she could reach his handcuffed hands. As soon as she managed to free his left hand, he grabbed the key from her and quickly unlocked the other cuff. Ignoring the searing pain tearing through his hands from the silver, he leaned forward and released the chains wrapped around his legs.

As soon as he was free, Kale kicked the chains out of his way, giving into the power surging through his body, and-

“You should have taken the job when my father offered it,” Andrew Vane said, drawing his attention as pain suddenly exploded in his chest.