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discovered what was going on, it was too late to chase after them.”
Seth fought to calm his dismay. He could certainly understand why everyone was scared. Michael was, in effect, their leader.
“We need to—”
“Wait.” Ethan set his hand on Seth’s shoulder.
Foreboding snaked its way through Seth’s body. He frowned at Ethan. “What?”
A flash of pity lit Ethan’s eyes. “They took Lily too.”
Dread slammed into Seth’s body. He fought the urge to double over at the churning in his gut. “Lily? Was she… hurt?”
Ethan’s jaw tightened. “Unconscious.”
Seth wiped his hands over his face as horror buffeted him. What had they done to her to cause her to lose consciousness? He didn’t dare think of it.
“We must attack.”
Ethan nodded. “Jason and Ruby are of the same mind. I flew out to their training session to inform them of what’d happened, and they are now gathering all the humans we’ve been training to organize an assault.”
Seth gripped his arm. “No. We don’t have time to wait. There’s no telling what they’ll do to them.”
He knew firsthand the horrors of being a prisoner of his kind. Torture. Pain. Those would be a given. His heart broke for Michael, who’d so recently undergone the same treatment, but even more so for Lily and Eva. He shuddered to think what the white-wings might do to them. Once he would have never thought his kind capable of the darker forms of torture, but he’d learned not to place any sort of trust in them whatsoever.
They were capable of anything and everything. And they had his Lily.
“Seth.” Ethan placed his other hand atop Seth’s, gripping it firmly. “I assure you, we’re going to do whatever it takes to get them all back. Safe and sound.”
“That’s not good enough.” Giving in to the panic simmering at the surface, Seth pulled back and turned toward the door. “I won’t idly stand by while she’s torn apart by those monsters.”
He got no more than three feet when Ethan yanked on his shoulder, swinging him back around. “Seth, no. Don’t do anything rash.”
“Let go,” Seth snarled. His rage broke free, misdirecting itself at the man standing before him. “I’m going after her.”
“We all are,” Ethan persisted. “Wait for us.”
“No.” He shoved away, stalking blindly to the door. When Ethan’s hand closed over his shoulder once again, he shook him off and kept going.
“Seth, no!”
“Screw you.”
Just as he reached for the door, Ethan slammed into him from behind, knocking him to the ground.
Fury wound through Seth as he tried to dislodge Ethan. Deep down he recognized this was idiotic, that Ethan was only trying to help, but his fear of what was happening to Lily controlled him. He couldn’t simply sit back and wait for a plan.
He would rather die trying to save her.
“Seth.” Ethan gave a growl of anger and the two wrestled on the ground. “Seth, stop.”
He didn’t stop, couldn’t stop. Lost in his emotions, he kept fighting, kept going until Ethan’s mate, Tayla, appeared beside them and she spoke softly. “Seth, no.”
The compassion and determination wafting from her accomplished what Ethan had not been able to. It got him to take pause.
Fear and despair clashed within him as the futility of his struggle penetrated.
Seth blinked back the tears that formed in his vision. “I can’t just leave her there, Tayla.”
She bent to look him in the eye, and Ethan rose off him, crouching on his other side.
“You don’t have to,” she said. “Ruby and the humans are headed toward Central Park now. Almost a hundred of them.”
He rose up onto his elbows. “Right now?”
She nodded, her eyes flashing with heat. “This ends tonight. We’re getting them back, Seth.”
Relief settled around Seth like a blanket. He turned his gaze to Ethan, who gave him a grim nod.
“Tonight,” he murmured in agreement.
Thank the Heavens.
Determination stiffened his spine as he sat up and
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