Reaping Mercy (Mercy Temple Chronicles Book 5) by Ciara Graves

Author:Ciara Graves [Graves, Ciara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Mercy

I held a dagger at the ready as the elevator doors opened on the basement level. It was five in the morning, and the hotel was quiet. Rafael had taken forever to fall asleep. As soon as he was out, I’d put my amulet back on and snuck out the door. I braced for the shifter guards to attack, but there was no one there. Cautiously, I exited and pushed on the doors, expecting them to be locked.

“Uh, either very trusting or stupid.”

The door swung inward, and I entered the underground arena. The cage created an ominous atmosphere that made me want to turn around and run. But I came down here for a reason. Wesley was here, somewhere, locked in a cage. There was a chance Gigi was down here with him.

My boots made little noise as I hurried through the stadium seating to another set of doors where a caged tunnel linked them to the main cage. That was where Wesley and the shifter entered. When I neared the stage, a weird lightheadedness rushed over me, and I fell into the cage bars, waiting for it to pass. So many hybrids in one area were leaving their mark.

Another flicker of those dragon eyes urged me to get a move on, and I spotted another door next to the tunnel. This one was locked. I was tempted to shoot the thing but still didn’t have my gun. Kicking the door in was out of the question too. I carefully used the tip of the dagger and worked on jimmying the lock. After a couple of minutes of cursing and sweating, waiting to be caught, the lock clicked, and I opened the door.

“Holy shit,” I mumbled as soon as I was through. I’d seen some messed up crap in my life, but this was the worst.

Rows and rows of cages filled a room the half the size of a football field. Every single one was occupied with a shifter, vampire, fae, mage, goblin, ghoul. There were even some witches and warlocks.

An entire row was dedicated to demons, and I was glad Rafael had not come with me. Most were asleep, but a few watched me curiously as I weaved through the cages. Many were bloodied and bruised from their fights in the cage. A cluster of cages toward my right were empty, probably from the fights tonight. The deeper into the room I moved, the more prisoners woke up and whispered to each other about what I was doing there. How could we possibly get them all out? I told Rafael I wasn’t leaving without Wesley or Gigi, but how could we call ourselves the good guys if we let this go on? And once the conference ended, they would be taken away, possibly forever.

I turned around and came face to face with a cage that made my heart leap into my throat and my stomach plummet to the floor.

Kids.

There were kids in that cage. Most of them were fae, from the look of it, but a few shifters.

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