Omega: An Urban Fantasy Novel (War of the Alphas Book 1) by SM Reine

Author:SM Reine [Reine, SM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Fantasy / Urban
Publisher: Red Iris Books
Published: 2015-04-01T23:00:00+00:00

—XI—

Deirdre couldn’t tell if Stark’s order to shoot was meant to be compulsion or not. He’d said he wouldn’t compel her unless he needed to. But she couldn’t risk letting him know she was immune.

So she shot.

Her hand twitched right before she squeezed the trigger.

It was a small gun, but in a room that size, it was still loud enough to make her whole skull ring.

Blood splattered from the nurse’s bicep.

He cried out with pain. His other hand plunged into a desk drawer, and Deirdre knew he was armed, knew he would shoot back, try to defend the office. They’d been ready with barred windows. They must have been ready with weapons, too.

Stark seized the nurse before Deirdre could decide if she should shoot again. He hurled Roger across the room. The impact of the nurse’s body cracked the drywall.

He bounced to the floor and he didn’t move.

Stark rounded on the manager, grabbing a fistful of his suit and jerking him to his feet.

“You know who I am,” Stark said.

“Oh gods, oh gods, please don’t hurt me—”

“You’ve seen my face on the news.”

“Yes, I’ve seen you, please don’t hurt me! I just work here!”

“As long as you execute the laws our government forces upon us, you’re culpable, too,” Stark said. “Let everyone in.”

It took Deirdre a moment to realize that he was speaking to her.

She dropped Shawna. The woman collapsed to the floor, sobbing into her arms, whole body shaking.

Deirdre had done that to her. She had helped put the fear into every one of those people.

She rushed to the front door. The rest of their team was waiting just outside; all she had to do was unbolt the door and let them in.

Jacek entered first, shoving her aside. He fired the machine gun into the floor. The chatter of bullets was like driving needles into Deirdre’s ears. “Don’t anyone move!” he shouted.

“We covered that part,” Deirdre snapped.

He swung the machine gun around to aim it at her.

“Don’t be that guy,” Sancho said, ripping the weapon out of Jacek’s hands. He turned it on the office staff and held it steady as he locked the door again. “Barricade this, ladies.”

It took both Niamh and Deirdre to push the waiting room couches in front of the door, piling one on top of the other. They did a great job blocking the narrow windows. Once the police arrived, they wouldn’t have a clear shot at the invading shifters.

Once the police arrived. Holy hell.

And once they were locked down, there was nothing to distract Deirdre from what they’d done.

They had taken people hostage.

She felt so numb that she couldn’t think of what this would mean later—these people carrying her face around in their minds, having nightmares about what they’d endured at the point of her gun, seeking therapy and crying on the shoulders of loved ones.

Hopefully they’d live long enough to need that therapy.

The way Jacek was prowling around the room, Deirdre was starting to doubt that anyone was going to escape alive.

Stark lifted Shawna from the floor.

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