Forged by Fate by Reese Monroe

the ground, black blood oozing from his wound. She flattened her back against the jagged wall, which had to hurt, yet she didn’t flinch.
    So strong.
    With wide eyes, she seesawed her focus between Justin and Theo. Sweat poured down her face, though it didn’t appear she had any bruises. Or cuts.
    “You might want to call in your fangs, brother,” Justin whispered.
    The adrenaline had been pumping so fiercely he’d forgotten. Instantly, he called his supernatural side in and faced his Mate.
    “Come here, Sadie.” He offered his hand. He didn’t like her in such close proximity to the demon. He recognized this one. He’d sent the bastard back here centuries ago. “Sadie.”
    She jumped to the side, not toward Theo. No, it looked as if she wanted to melt into the granite to get farther from him than she already was. Of course she’d be scared. She had seen his fangs. Shit.
    “I won’t hurt you.”
    She stopped as if considering her options.
    There weren’t any.
    He had to get her out of here, and she had exactly five seconds to get to his side so he could take her away from this place or he would speed to her and get her himself. Those demons would soon return with stronger numbers.
    “Am I dead?” she whispered, as she continued to inch to the side, looking at the paralyzed demon.
    “No, love. Please, come to me. I’ll get you out of here.”
    Justin flinched and glanced upward, his nostrils flaring. Theo, too, smelled the demons approaching. What a score to kill the Gatekeeper’s Mate, or at least try.
    “Look, Sadie. I know you’re scared.” Justin edged toward her. “But we need to go. Right now.” He offered her his hand as Theo had done.
    And she ignored it just as she had Theo’s.
    A snarl ripped through the air, and she flinched. Knees bent, hands fisted, she looked up. Theo sped to the demon and retrieved his dagger, then leaped in Sadie’s direction.
    Amazingly, she tracked him, because when he approached, he saw her wide eyes.
    “Sorry, love, time’s up.”

Chapter Twelve
    Theo slammed into Sadie with such a force she feared her ribs cracked. His relentless grip around her waist held her steady. Each step he took, which she could barely register because he moved so fast, sent a jolt of raging energy through her until she figured her hair would burst into flames.
    She lifted her head to see where they were going.
    “Try not to move, love.”
    “Don’t call me that.” She craned her neck more to see.
    His bike. That black thing of beauty lay on its side among the granite walls and flickering flames. That’s right, he’d leaped off it when he’d seen her surrounded by… demons . Shit, they were demons, weren’t they? She was in hell right now.
    He’d come to get her in hell on his motorcycle? Just drove it on in, kicked ass, then rode out?
    “Go. I’ll buy you some extra time,” Justin said.
    Clashing metal rang through her ears. She dared a look back and found Justin engaged with four hideous creatures. They didn’t fight with daggers, though, like Justin.
    They used their claws…and fangs, judging by the snap one made for Justin’s arm. Theo slowed, and before she could register it, she sat astride the bike with him in front of her.
    “Hang on.”
    She must not have reacted quickly enough because he reached back and yanked her arm around his waist. “Now.”
    She twined the other around and latched her hands together. The engine roared, and they lurched forward toward a tunnel. No, a darkened hallway.
    Blooming orange clouds formed in the sky above them, but the dark walls on either side went up forever.
    She’d fallen into a nightmare. Literally. And she held on—for dear life—to another creature. Nothing like the fanged-out monsters who’d kidnapped her, but not human, nonetheless.
    Superfast. Superhuman strength. It didn’t escape her how those creatures cowered when he’d stridden in to where she’d been detained. She’d heard them gasp.
    Power wafted off this