Taking Nicole (Vegas Mates Series)(#4) by Krystal Shannan

Author:Krystal Shannan [Shannan, Krystal]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: KS Publishing
Published: 2014-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

“I’m going to lose her tonight, Sasha. To one of those assholes. And that’s only if she doesn’t kill herself fighting against it.” Aaron leaned against the cold metal bars of his sister’s cage and sighed. Sasha’s soft nose nuzzled the back of his neck. He turned, looking into her soft yellow eyes. Her fur was dulled from malnutrition and she was very underweight, as were most of the prisoners here. Carlotta and Reginald only fed them enough to keep them alive. Their magick kept them from getting sick and dying.

Sasha purred and sat quietly, cocking her head to the side.

“There’s nothing left to do.” He glanced at the ground and then to his beloved sister again. He missed her smile and her twinkling blue eyes and long curly black hair. The sweet memory of her voice had almost completely faded from his mind. “I could try to run with Nicole, but they would hunt us down and kill us. And kill you. Kate, the witch I was telling you about, said she was coming, but no one has come. I’m not sure what she could do, even if she is a creator.”

Sasha nodded and stretched out on the bare cement floor of her cage. He stood, watching her tail flick back and forth. She’d been in this dank place nearly a century. Even if he was able to get her out, he wondered what would really be left of his sister. He could only hope that she and her leopard had a lot to say. If it’d been him in the cage, he would have gone insane. But she seemed calm. He’d seen several of the prisoners give up over the years. Henrick’s mother had been one of them. One day she stopped eating. No amount of pleading could change her mind. Three weeks later she passed away, breaking his friend’s heart.

It wasn’t fair. None of these people deserved this existence.

“Have faith in our creator, Aaron. If she said she was coming, she is,” his leopard’s voice rumbled in the back of his mind. “She will help. She is more powerful than any of these so-called royals.”

We’re losing our mate.

“Perhaps they will kill each other and none will be left to take her.”

Aaron scoffed at his cat’s optimism. Sure.

“Aaron?” Karl’s voice called from the entrance to the cages. “You need to come. Now.”

His heart paused. Karl never sounded worried. He was a man of few emotions, but those five words held the weight of the world in them.

Aaron leapt to his feet and reached the entrance in moments.

Karl’s eyes were dark. “You shouldn’t have left her.”

***

“Nicole?” Tempe’s soft voice fell on her ears. “You have to shift back. We have to get you ready for the ceremony before Carlotta sees this.”

No. She growled and tucked her nose against her stomach, not surprised she’d retreated to wolf form.

“Nicole Antipas. Get your ass off the floor and get dressed for tonight. Right. Now.”

Fury seethed through every part of her body at the sound of her grandmother’s angry words.

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