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You’ll always be my little girl, his voice whispered through her mind, his vow each time he dirtied her body.
“You look shocked, Lawrence,” he said tauntingly. “Haven’t you figured it out yet? She was mine in those labs, and I want her back. That was the object all along; it just took me a while to arrange things to my satisfaction once she arrived.”
“You won’t take either of them, Jason,” he snapped. “Give it up now, while you’re still alive.”
Jason smiled, an evil, malicious twist of his lips. His fingers caressed the smooth line of Cassie’s throat with just enough pressure to cause her to part her lips to draw in more air.
Rumbled growls and enraged, throttled snarls filled the room as the guests were pushed behind the line of Breeds now facing Phelps.
He was surrounded, and yet so confident. Dawn knew if he managed to actually escape the ballroom then his success would be almost guaranteed.
“Are you going to let me take her out of here without you, Dawn?” he asked then. “We can do this one of two ways. You can come and be my pet.” He stroked Cassie’s throat. “Or I can make her my pet for a while. You know how the scientists enjoy watching me work. Do you think she’ll survive it?”
Cassie would survive, but her mind would be damaged forever, and Dawn knew it. She knew it, but as she met Cassie’s gaze, she saw only acceptance. Acceptance and regret as she glanced at her parents.
I love you. She mouthed the words to them as a sob escaped Elizabeth.
“Come on, Dawn.” Jason’s voice took a teasing tone. “Tell me you don’t dream of me taking you. You’ve missed me, little cat, you know you have.”
The scent of horror filled the room. Finally, finally the cream of the world’s financial crop was seeing the evil that filled the Council and its soldiers. The complete disregard for life. Adult’s or child’s.
Noble, one of the Breeds on the security detail, shifted in front of her carefully, hidin
g her from Jason’s sight for the few precious seconds she needed to jerk her link from her purse and attach it to her ear.
A shot fired and he fell. The smell of blood filled the room, pouring from the chest wound as Noble pressed his own hand to his chest and fought to hold the blood inside his body. The other Breeds didn’t move, but the air of savagery that filled the room was nearly stifling now.
“Move between me and what’s mine again…,” Jason sneered, before turning to her. “Now come here, little cat.”
Dawn slid away from Seth quickly, feeling his rage as she did so, as Stygian moved between them and the Breeds surrounded him. They would restrain him if they had to, but Seth was smarter than that. He watched her with tormented eyes, but she saw the determination in his face. He would never stand still if she tried to leave the room with Phelps.
She glided several feet away, then stopped.
“Dawn, we can’t get a bead on him. Cassie’s head is in the way,” Jonas spoke through the link. “You have to get him to shift.”
She moved again, several more feet, but though he turned with her, he kept Cassie in a fully protective position in front of him.
“You’ve lost your edge,” she told him calmly. “Against me, as well as Seth. You showed yourself too soon, Jason. That was a miscalculation on your part.”
He made a tsking sound. “I like your voice better when you’re screaming and begging God to save you.” He grinned. “Did he ever save you, Dawn?”
She arched her brow and spread her arms. “I’m free.”
“You were for a time,” he agreed. “And now Daddy is here to collect you.” He chuckled at his own joke.
And Dawn smiled as she shook her head. “You’ll never get out of here alive, Jason.”
“Everything’s in place, Dawn,” he assured her. “I’m smart, remember? I trained your animal asses and I can take you out whenever I want to. As many of you as I want.”
Dawn let her gaze drift to Cassie. She was staring at her parents, tears washing over her face as Elizabeth’s broken voice whispered her name.
“Let Cassie go.” She bargained then, stepping close as Seth snarled Dawn’s name. “And we’ll go.”
Jason laughed at that, as she had known he would. “Not going to happen,” he promised her. “She’s payday. You’re my reward. I’m going to strap you down, pump you full of those nifty little drugs the scientists wouldn’t let you have before, and I’m going to fuck you until you’re screaming in pleasure. Fuck you and tape it and send it to your fiancé.” He smiled tauntingly at Seth. “He can see how a real man tames your particular Breed.”
“He doesn’t need drugs to make me scream in pleasure, Jason,” Dawn pointed out as the Breeds closed in around Seth.
“Dawn, damn you, stop,” Seth hissed. She heard him, but Jason didn’t. He was laughing at her, but there was fury in the sound.
