Broken: A Fated Mates Wolf Shifter Romance by Anastasia Wilde

Author:Anastasia Wilde [Wilde, Anastasia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

A shocked murmur went around the room. They had all been speculating so long about what Thanatos was, nobody could believe they’d gotten an answer. Boomer got out his phone and started frantically texting.

“Mr. Hunter the younger,” Thanatos said. “Please put the phone away. There is plenty of time to learn which, if any, of your colleagues had their money on ‘Fae’ in the betting pool. I take it that it wasn’t you?”

Shit, Cole thought. He really did know everything that went on at the Ridge. Boomer rolled his eyes and put his phone in his pocket.

Thanatos went on, “You may be pleased to learn that there are a large number of creatures with Fae magic that fall under the Bright Fae’s definition of Dark Fae. So you can keep your pool open a little longer.”

Boomer’s face brightened, and his hand made a movement towards the pocket where he’d put the phone. Thanatos kept the hood pointed at him, and he dropped his hand.

Cole wasn’t interested in the pool right now, though he would have to find out if ‘troll’ was still in the running as a possibility. But Riker’s words were still burned into his brain.

“Next question,” he said. “Did you arrange to have Riker escape from prison?”

Another pause from Thanatos, and then, “Yes, I did.”

“What?” Boomer exploded. Karisma let out a feral growl, and wicked claws sprouted out of her fingertips. Black and white fur rippled across her face.

Gunn said, “Why the hell would you do a thing like that? Without telling us?” He and Mikey were both growling as well.

They had all risked their lives fighting against Maximilian and Riker, who’d been the right-hand man who did all the sorcerer’s dirty work for him. The idea that Thanatos had just let him go without even a heads-up got to all of them.

Thanatos said, “I believed he would lead me to the knowledge I had hoped to learn from Maximilian—knowledge that died with him when I killed him.” He turned his hood towards Boomer and Karisma.

“Killing him was necessary, in the circumstances.” Everyone in the room knew the ‘circumstances’ were that Maximilian had been holding a knife to Karisma’s throat, threatening her life. They also knew that Thanatos had sacrificed his mission objective to save her—although he hadn’t told them what that objective was.

“A thorough search of Maximilian’s notes, however, indicated that he did know that vital piece of information: the location of the person whose soul was trapped in the final sphere of the Orb of Thekate.”

Karisma hissed. She’d spent years with part of her soul trapped in a section of that same Orb—and Maximilian siphoning off her shifter magic for his own use through that connection, while secretly guiding her to find the other pieces of the Orb so he could take them from her.

Thanatos went on, “She has been held prisoner for a great many years. My intention is, as it has always been, to find her and release her.”

His words exploded into Cole’s mind.

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