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tease.”
    “It’s not teasing if I come through.” Hex pecked him on the lips again and swatted his ass to get him moving. “Put some clothes on and meet me at the front door in ten minutes.”
    Echo was dressed and waiting in five. He fidgeted nervously, pacing back and forth in the entryway at the foot of the stairs while he waited on his mates to join him. When they finally emerged, Echo thought he’d swallow his tongue.
    Hex wasn’t kidding. They were all dressed in black leather pants and plain black T-shirts. Black boots and heavy belts adorned with an array of knives in different sizes rounded out the drool-worthy picture. They looked dangerous—and absolutely the sexiest men he’d ever laid eyes on.
    Hex laughed and kissed him on the forehead when he reached the foot of the stairs. “I told you.”
    “Told him what?” Fiero asked.
    “Echo seems to have a fetish for leather and knives,” Hex answered with a smirk.
    All eyes turned to him, and Echo swallowed hard. “I want to strip you down and lick every inch of each one of you.” Good grief, he’d actually said that out loud. Shaking his head to try to clear a bit of the lusty haze surrounding his brain, Echo turned and reached for the doorknob. “This is going to be a distraction,” he mumbled under his breath.
    Hex’s hand landed on the back of his neck and urged him around to face the big alpha. “No distractions,” Hex said seriously.
    Echo dipped his head. The magnitude of what they faced finally crashed down on him, and his knees began to tremble. “Don’t you dare die.”
    Stroking his fingers down the side of Echo’s neck, Hex frowned. “Where’s your necklace?”
    “Upstairs in my nightstand.” Echo’s throat burned at the hurt look in Hex’s eyes. He curled his hand around his mate’s wrist, moving the warrior’s palm to his cheek to nuzzle against it. “I haven’t worn it in a while. It’s too important to me, and with everything happening, I was afraid it would get lost or broken.”
    His answer seemed to appease his lover, because Hex grinned crookedly and stroked Echo’s cheek. “This is a two-way street, Echo. You will do exactly what we tell you to do, and no arguments. Not this time, baby. Don’t you dare die.” He growled Echo’s words back to him.
    Echo nodded, though he wasn’t even sure if he could die anymore. Would he re-die? Was that even possible? It was definitely something he needed to find out, but this probably wasn’t the best time to test it.
    One final check to make sure everyone had what they needed, and they hurried out to pile into two separate vehicles. Echo slid into the backseat of his SUV between Onyx and Mac. Such a beautiful car his men had bought for him, and he’d only driven it once. He didn’t much like driving, though, so he wasn’t too fussed with it.
    Hex drove as usual, with Eyce in the passenger seat. Everyone else piled into Syx’s SUV and off they went to face down rogue vampires and rescue their friends. Cakewalk, right?
    Echo fidgeted, squirming in his seat and wringing his hands together. So many things could go wrong and probably would. If all the vampires would be sleeping and they couldn’t come out in the sun, how hard could it be? Judging from the amount of steel his mates were packing, he wasn’t going to like the answer.
    “I still don’t understand why this is going to be so hard,” he finally admitted. “I mean, we have powers, and the vampires can’t come out in the daylight. Why is everyone acting like we’re facing down Armageddon?”
    “I imagine that they’ll be holding Gage and everyone else in the lowest part of the building—a basement or something similar where sunlight won’t reach,” Eyce answered, turning in his seat to face Echo. “We have to get in, find them, and get out.”
    Echo nodded slowly. “But how hard could it be to kick their asses?”
    “Craze said there were thirty or so vampires at Jinx and Syn’s initiation. Which