Mortal Brother by Teyla Branton

Author:Teyla Branton [Branton, Teyla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Urban Fantasy
ISBN: 978-1-939203-57-1
Publisher: White Star Press
Published: 2015-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

WE ARRIVED IN PORTLAND WITH the morning sun, whose light did nothing to remove the heaviness from my chest. While I dealt with arrangements for the plane after landing, the others went to Stella’s apartment, which we were using as a temporary safe house until we moved to the new place in San Diego. I also had to meet the ambulance that came for Benito, and by the time I arrived at Stella’s, the place was a hive of activity.

“This location has been compromised,” Erin told me, appearing from the back of the moving truck outside the apartment. “But guess what? There was information on that thumb drive we brought back about Tenika’s missing people. We know where they’re being held!”

A weight lifted from my shoulders. Maybe Mexico hadn’t been a total bust after all.

“We’re leaving as soon as possible,” Ritter added. He jumped down from the truck and turned to offer Erin a hand. At over two hundred and seventy years old, he sometimes had the distinct manners of an old-world gentleman, though I usually didn’t see even a glimpse of that because he was otherwise so deadly—a killing machine, really. But I’d noticed that Erin brought out this other side of him, the gallantry from a time long forgotten by most of us.

Erin ignored his hand and came down the ramp, but the look she tossed him at the bottom told me she had been aware of him and wasn’t ready to accept him completely. Something had happened between them in Mexico. I hoped it was good.

Ava came from Stella’s third-floor apartment, her feet making noise on the outside metal staircase as she descended. I turned to her. “I just need to see my kids, then I’ll go back to the airport to get the plane ready for the flight.”

Ava shook her head. “No. Cort will take us in the smaller plane. He’s skilled enough for that. I want you to load the essentials and take them to the house in San Diego. George and Charles will go with you. I’ll arrange for Benito to join you once he’s out of the hospital. You might want to send the kids to your parents for a while until you’re sure the new place is secure.” Her lips tightened. “I want it to be a veritable fortress when you’re finished.”

Fortress. It reminded me of two days earlier when Erin had begged me to take the kids and leave the Renegades. I’d told her that separating them from those they loved wasn’t the answer, but rather making sure it never happened again. I was just the man for creating the fortress. My children could be killed, so I had the most to lose.

However, it didn’t escape me that Ava was sending the mortals with me, while the Unbounded would be going to what would likely be another bloodbath with the Emporium.

“Please, Chris,” Ava said, her hand going out to mine. “We must free our people, but after losing Stella’s baby and

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