Arden’s Mate(51)

Remy, Ava, and Lexie had tried to pick a café that wasn’t very crowded so not many people would get hurt, but it wasn’t easy. They were a ten minute walk to the nightclubs, but still a good distance away. They pretended to eat their cake and drink their milkshakes.

They’d been at the café for almost twenty minutes, time enough for the men to find them, when Lexie groaned, “They’re coming, and it’s bad. The ground is telling me there are many and they came prepared.”

Remy stood and threw fire to a visible place. “Fire. Everyone out,” she yelled at the top of her lungs. She built the blaze and the small amount of people almost trampled each other to get out. When they were alone she put the fire out.

“Get ready,” Lexie whispered.

The ground shook as a ton of zombies poured in and at least twenty minions flew in front of five demons.

“Oh, fuck. This was a bad idea.” Remy didn’t even need to look at Ava or Lexie to know she was right.

To fit into the café the demons hunched and squished themselves in. Remy knew that didn’t hinder them. She remembered from the bowling alley.

A demon came forward and he cackled. “We will give you a choice—come with us willingly and you won’t get hurt…much...or fight us and risk death. You will never win against this many of us. So give up now.”

Remy bit her tongue. She had so many awesome comebacks she wanted to say, but she knew she had to keep them to herself…for now.

Ava stepped forward. “If you promise not to hurt us, we will come with you.”

“You ask a lot, wolf, when you are in no position to bargain.”

“If you don’t agree, I will kill my friends and then myself before you even get to us.”

The demon snarled and spat. “Fine. Come now before I change my mind.”

They walked to the scary bunch and were grabbed by zombies. Remy tried hard not to turn the heat up on her body and burn them to death. She needed to keep her body neutral for as long as possible so the guys could find them.





Chapter 11




Duke was pulling his hair out, and Logan paced back and forth, threatening to tie Ava up and never let her go for putting herself and their babies in danger. Arden was not going to be so nice to Remy. He was going to spank her arse and tie her to a ball and chain, if he didn’t kill her first.

“Do we have any leads were they might be? They can’t have been out for long, we only left them fifteen or so minutes ago.” Logan was the calmest of the lot. Arden was fighting to keep his feral wolf caged, and if he spoke out loud it would be to snarl and howl.

“I just finished calling her friends, but they didn’t tell me a thing.” Duke stopped running his fingers through his hair. “Stacy. She said they went to a café. She said they were having cravings.”

Arden yanked out his phone and concentrated on not smashing it as he called Rane. “Ava, Lexie, and Remy are gone. Gather everyone. We’re at my house.” As he hung up his phone it rang again. “Hello,” he growled out.

“Get your arse here now, Arden. Our sisters and your mate have done something big.” Kane sounded pissed.

“Change, and get to Kane’s house. He has info.” Arden changed to wolf, not bothering to see if the others followed, and he left out the back wolf door. He ran as fast as he could ever remember running in his life.

He went through the wolf door at Kane’s and changed back, walking into chaos. Eve was surrounded by machines and stood yelling at Kane. “The tracking devices are in all three. They’re going to take us to another demon hideout.”

“We’re not ready.”

“You did it last time and you weren’t ready.”

“Eve, use your brain. You were with us. We lost men, and we didn’t kill hardly any demons because we got in and out. For all we know we could have left more people behind and the demons took them. The last operation took us months to organize. What the fuck were you thinking?”

“We think the traitor is one of the paranormal people, a woman. We think demons have some hold over her and she’s giving them information about what’s going on. It’s why they knew about the bridal fitting, and now that I think about it, other things too, like the vans we took on mine and Ava’s birthday were fine until the drive home. They were tampered with. Fuck, fuck. Why didn’t I see it before? It was one of the women who were with us. So there was Kirby, Faith, Sandra, Lexie, Stacy, and Sara. Remy didn’t join us until we were at the bar and she was only close by because she was on her way home. Besides me, the only woman without a mate is Stacy.”