River of No Return by Annie Bellet

Author:Annie Bellet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Doomed Muse Press
Published: 2018-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

I got pants on but my dreams of seeing the special and not-so-special agents handed their asses died in the fire of Levi’s ringtone on my phone.

“Sup?” I said, already walking toward the door and my shoes. Vivian had left apparently, for there was no sign of the wolf-shifter vet in the living room or kitchen.

“Is Alek with you? Can you get here quickly? Are you at the shop?” Levi’s voice was breathless and panicked.

“Yes, sort of, at home,” I said. “What’s wrong?”

Alek and Harper had stopped politely pretending they couldn’t hear Levi on the phone, their bodies going tense.

“Wolves, men, they’re trying to get into the house and we’re surrounded,” Levi said. I heard a male voice ask him something but Levi didn’t respond verbally. Then a huge crash sounded followed by the unmistakable crack of gunfire.

“We’re on our way,” I said.

“Hurry,” Levi said. He started to say something else but the phone cut out.

“Shit.”

“Are Carlos and May still with him?” Alek asked as he jammed his feet into his boots.

“They were with Levi?” I asked, shoving my phone into my pants. If they were there, likely this attack was the First’s doing. Damnit.

“May is too weak to travel so Levi offered his place,” Alek said. He strapped on his gun after handing me the Alpha and Omega in its sheath.

“I called Perky, she’s on her way to the shop now. Says she’ll bill you later.” Harper joined us by the door, grabbing her own shoes. “That was gunfire. If they are already in we’re never going to make it in time.”

“Not if we drive,” I said, a really stupid thought forming in my head. But Levi was in danger. Junebug and her unborn baby were probably there, too, given it was her home and all.

Nobody I loved was getting hurt on my watch. Not if I could help it.

“Jade,” Alek said, his pale brows raised in an unasked question.

“Take the car, meet me there,” I said. I didn’t wait for him to answer. I threw open the door and ran out, leaping off my upper landing in a smooth motion.

Flying is easy in theory. You just have to convince your brain that breaking laws of physics is no biggie and then just not fall down. Magic coursed through my veins and I used it to push against the ground and the air, giant invisible wings holding me aloft. I used the magic to push myself higher, moving faster and faster until the world was a blur and my eyes watered from the freezing air rushing past.

I picked a straight line to Levi’s shop and home, crossing Wylde in broad summer daylight, hoping speed and height would conceal the flying woman from the people below. In the end it wouldn’t really matter if the whole damn world saw me. Levi and Junebug were in danger. And I hadn’t saved May just to let her die to a bunch of unknown assailants.

The First had brought his war to my town and I wasn’t about to let him win any more battles here.

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