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together. He nodded and took off, making sure to run slowly enough that we could keep up. I knew we were all pushing ourselves as hard as we could. Every second counted.
When we got to the ballroom, whatever barricade they had put up hadn’t held. We walked through the busted double doors and saw shifters darting around the room, faster than I could even keep up with. They had that advantage, but it was very obvious they had no weapons training when they went in for the attack.
We jumped right in and I lost sight of Rylan and Onah as I kept shooting demon after demon. I ducked one attack when I had to reload my automatic rifle. When I went back to taking aim, I couldn’t get over how many there were. They were like cockroaches… Kill one and another sprang up. How could we have had this many vampires turn evil? I didn’t understand it.
Granted, there were millions of vampires across the world, many more than anyone would ever have believed, but still! There had to be another explanation. Maybe they’d found a way to turn humans?
Another twenty minutes of fighting and the dust settled. I scanned the room to make sure we got them all and saw Rylan sobbing over a couple of people. Fuck.
“I’m sorry, Rylan,” the Queen said gently as she knelt next to them. “She was too far gone for me to save and your father was already departed.”
“I know,” he whispered, wiping his eyes. “Thank you for trying and sending in your warriors. At least we saved some.” He leaned over and kissed each of his parents’ foreheads. “I’m so sorry. I will miss you both always.” I was shocked when he got to his feet.
“Baby, just take a moment,” I said gently as I pulled him into my arms.
“I can’t.” Rylan looked up into my eyes and shook his head. “My mother said that my brother’s in the panic room in father’s study. I have to go get him.”
“Okay, sweetie.” I walked back that way with him, wrapping my arm around his sagging shoulders. I met Onah’s questioning gaze at the doorway to the ballroom and shook my head, letting him know Rylan’s parents didn’t make it.
“Where are we going?” he asked as he fell in step with us.
“Rylan’s mother told him that she put his younger brother in the panic room before she died,” I answered quietly.
“Not just younger brother,” Rylan sniffled, shaking his head. “ Baby brother as in he’s not even a year old. He’ll never get to know his parents now.”
“I’m so sorry, Ry,” Onah said gently. Once we heard there was a baby in the panic room, we picked up the pace a bit. I mean, not to say we weren’t worried about a kid, I was more worried about my mate still moving after his parents died. A kid could wait a bit in a secured room. A baby? Not so much.
I let him go when we got to the study, watching as our kitty punched in the code in a hidden keypad. A door I wouldn’t have been able to even tell was there at first glance popped open to reveal a baby lying quietly in his bassinet, staring up at us with the same bright orange eyes Rylan had.
“Hey, Paolo,” Rylan whispered sadly as he pulled his brother into his arms. “We’re going to go somewhere safe and get someone to watch over you while I take care of some things, okay? I want you to be a good boy like you always are and don’t be scared.”
“He must be the world’s best baby to not even have cried during this,” Onah cooed as he ran his finger down Paolo’s cheek.
“He is,” Rylan agreed. “That doesn’t mean I have any clue how to raise a child, be King, figure out how to save the rest of my people, and keep us safe, all while just having met my mates and not even had the chance to complete our claiming of each other. There’s no way one person could handle all that and the death of my parents. There’s arrangements to be made and I don’t want to stay in this house now.”
Oh fuck. He was about to lose it.
Chapter 5
Rylan
    I started to hyperventilate as I listed off everything