An Echo of Darkness by Kristen Banet

An Echo of Darkness by Kristen Banet

Author:Kristen Banet [Banet, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-15T06:00:00+00:00


15

Quinn

Someone had encroached into his territory and he’d missed them.

Quinn held onto that fact as he settled down in a recliner next to Jasper. Elijah fell into the one on his other side. They were all staring at the news going in front of them, hoping anything came up that they could understand.

But he was distracted by his mistake. An assassin coming for his female had walked into his territory and nearly killed her. Sombra had saved his mate’s life.

It caused anger to curl in the pit of his stomach. He’d never messed up so terribly, not even in the Amazon. Not ever. He didn’t get fooled or tricked like this. He was the most powerful Magi in North America that wasn’t a legend. This wasn’t supposed to be possible, him getting fooled by a cheap trick.

“Quinn, are you okay?” Elijah asked softly.

“No. I’m going to kill this Naseem if I ever see him again.” He meant every word of it.

“Me too,” his friend agreed. Quinn could hear the passionate truth in the quiet words.

“I can’t believe I was tricked, Elijah. I can’t believe it. No one has ever come onto this property without me knowing. No one, not even her. If anything, the more powerful the Magi, the better I know they’re there. He’s supposedly powerful and I had no idea.” Quinn bared his teeth as he looked down at his hands.

“No one knew, Quinn. No one could have known. Don’t let this get to you.” Elijah threw an arm over his shoulder. “No one is blaming you. We’re all fucking shaken. We all missed that someone was in the house.”

Quinn closed his eyes, growling. Elijah was right, but he needed to do something. He couldn’t just sit here in the quiet while Vincent tried to get ahold of James. He couldn’t just watch the news. “I think I should go out there and track him.”

“Absolutely not,” Vincent snapped from across the room. “We’re staying in this house, with each other, until dawn. No one is going out there to see if he’s still around.”

Quinn turned and looked at Vincent through the space between his recliner and Jasper’s, snarling. Vincent stared him down, the phone still to his ear. He resisted the urge to rumble the earth beneath, remind Vincent who was the more powerful Magi. He knew if he did it, Sawyer would feel it and come in, wondering what was wrong. She would agree with Vincent.

“Do you understand me, Quinn?” Vincent asked in a hard voice that Quinn hadn’t heard in a long time. Something else was on their leader’s mind. That meant this went beyond just an attacker and other possible victims. He wondered what Vincent was hiding. There was something, even if it was just a suspicion of his, that he hadn’t shared with the rest of them.

“I do,” he answered, looking away out of respect. He reached for his wolves, who were upstairs with Sombra. None of them wanted to come down. They were patrolling the house, finding the intruder’s scent and his path through the house.



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