toward the same door they’d entered, Evie caught a glimpse of the green dragon in the corner. She was barely making any noise at all now, nor was she struggling.
Evie fought back tears. The beautiful dragon, who had most likely been sent to protect her, was dying.
Right then and there, she made a promise to the green dragon. I’ll find a way to expose these activities to the world. Your death won’t be for nothing.
The dragon caught her eye and she swore it nodded at her, almost as if she could hear Evie’s thoughts. However, before she could do anything else, Evie was back in the dark rundown hallway again.
As they walked in the opposite direction to her cell, Evie’s heart pounded in her chest. She’d been angry before, but the sight of the green dragon had made her furious. No living thing should be put through such torture. If the DDA didn’t know about these activities, she would make sure they did once she was free.
And if her supposition about the DDA assistant director, Jonathan Christie, was correct and he was allowing the dragon hunters to carry on with little to no oversight, then she’d reach out to the media. Something needed to be done.
They stopped in front of an old, slightly rickety door and Evie pushed aside her anger. She needed a cool head for the ‘interview’. If she let her temper out, Evie wouldn’t be able to help anyone, let alone herself.
Chapter Six
After two bloody days of planning, researching information on Evie’s laptop, which they’d found tucked away in his hideout, and scouting the area around Carlisle, Bram and Kai were ready to make their move. As much as Bram’s dragon wanted to fly in and deal with the threat as it came, Bram wasn’t about to risk Evie, Murray, or his two captured Protectors. He owed it to his people to bring everyone back alive, not just his mate.
Yet keeping his inner beast in check became harder with each passing hour. The incessant roaring inside his head was not only irritating, but also signaled how close Bram was to losing control. No amount of scolding, let alone reasoning, had been able to silence his inner beast.
As such, Bram would be infiltrating the hideout while still in his human form.
Looking up to the night sky, he could just make out the shadows of his clan members flying in the air. To the average person, they might hear the beat of wings and dismiss it as the wind. Bram, however, knew there were two wing formations of dragons circling as quietly as possible in the sky above.
He hoped they were quiet enough to avoid notice by the hunters.
Bram signaled to his team of five dragon-shifters in human form to wait. Once two dragons swooped down and gently landed on the four-story abandoned building in the distance, he nodded at his team and moved.
Surveillance and tapping their local contacts had confirmed the Carlisle hunters were still using one of the two tunnels reported in the DDA’s reports. That was how Bram and his team would try to enter the hideout.
Bram crept through the bushes hiding the entrance until he found the branches concealing the door. Picking up a stick, he pushed aside the branches and held his breath, but he didn’t see any sort of alarm or keypad. Simon Bourne and his hunters were clever enough to have silent alarms, but Kai and Bram had earlier decided to risk it. After all, Bram’s break-in was a decoy meant to divide resources.
Raising a hand to signal for everyone to be ready to fight, Bram rammed his shoulder against the wooden door. On the second try, the old wooden frame splintered. The door gave way and he barreled inside the dark tunnel.
The blackness was no match for his keen dragon-shifter eyesight. With each step, his dragon pushed harder against the wall inside his mind. Bram’s patience with his dragon was nearing its limit. He took what few precious seconds he could spare to say, You can help me soon. I need my human half for the plan to work.
Let me out. I will make you
Evie fought back tears. The beautiful dragon, who had most likely been sent to protect her, was dying.
Right then and there, she made a promise to the green dragon. I’ll find a way to expose these activities to the world. Your death won’t be for nothing.
The dragon caught her eye and she swore it nodded at her, almost as if she could hear Evie’s thoughts. However, before she could do anything else, Evie was back in the dark rundown hallway again.
As they walked in the opposite direction to her cell, Evie’s heart pounded in her chest. She’d been angry before, but the sight of the green dragon had made her furious. No living thing should be put through such torture. If the DDA didn’t know about these activities, she would make sure they did once she was free.
And if her supposition about the DDA assistant director, Jonathan Christie, was correct and he was allowing the dragon hunters to carry on with little to no oversight, then she’d reach out to the media. Something needed to be done.
They stopped in front of an old, slightly rickety door and Evie pushed aside her anger. She needed a cool head for the ‘interview’. If she let her temper out, Evie wouldn’t be able to help anyone, let alone herself.
Chapter Six
After two bloody days of planning, researching information on Evie’s laptop, which they’d found tucked away in his hideout, and scouting the area around Carlisle, Bram and Kai were ready to make their move. As much as Bram’s dragon wanted to fly in and deal with the threat as it came, Bram wasn’t about to risk Evie, Murray, or his two captured Protectors. He owed it to his people to bring everyone back alive, not just his mate.
Yet keeping his inner beast in check became harder with each passing hour. The incessant roaring inside his head was not only irritating, but also signaled how close Bram was to losing control. No amount of scolding, let alone reasoning, had been able to silence his inner beast.
As such, Bram would be infiltrating the hideout while still in his human form.
Looking up to the night sky, he could just make out the shadows of his clan members flying in the air. To the average person, they might hear the beat of wings and dismiss it as the wind. Bram, however, knew there were two wing formations of dragons circling as quietly as possible in the sky above.
He hoped they were quiet enough to avoid notice by the hunters.
Bram signaled to his team of five dragon-shifters in human form to wait. Once two dragons swooped down and gently landed on the four-story abandoned building in the distance, he nodded at his team and moved.
Surveillance and tapping their local contacts had confirmed the Carlisle hunters were still using one of the two tunnels reported in the DDA’s reports. That was how Bram and his team would try to enter the hideout.
Bram crept through the bushes hiding the entrance until he found the branches concealing the door. Picking up a stick, he pushed aside the branches and held his breath, but he didn’t see any sort of alarm or keypad. Simon Bourne and his hunters were clever enough to have silent alarms, but Kai and Bram had earlier decided to risk it. After all, Bram’s break-in was a decoy meant to divide resources.
Raising a hand to signal for everyone to be ready to fight, Bram rammed his shoulder against the wooden door. On the second try, the old wooden frame splintered. The door gave way and he barreled inside the dark tunnel.
The blackness was no match for his keen dragon-shifter eyesight. With each step, his dragon pushed harder against the wall inside his mind. Bram’s patience with his dragon was nearing its limit. He took what few precious seconds he could spare to say, You can help me soon. I need my human half for the plan to work.
Let me out. I will make you
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