The Devil In Disguise (Bad Things #1)(50)

It took her only about two seconds to realize…something was wrong. Very wrong.

The body against hers was hard, strong. Sexy. The mouth against hers was sensual and skilled but…

No fire ignited in her blood. That wild, reckless need didn’t flare within her. Maybe it was because she was in prison, her voice was gone, and danger was everywhere or maybe…maybe…

She pulled her lips from his. Mina searched his eyes. Her lips parted and she mouthed the words she couldn’t speak. “Who. Are. You?”

But then the air around her seemed to heat. There was a rush of hot wind and—

Luke stood a few feet away from her. He wore the fancy suit that he’d had on when they dined on his balcony. He looked sexy, polished, and utterly…furious. The Eye of Hell gleamed on his hand.

Her gaze jerked from him to the man before her. A man who looked exactly like her Lord of the Dark. Exactly.

She tried to retreat, but the man holding her just tightened his grip.

“Thanks, Luke,” he said, his deep voice so similar to Luke’s that Mina ached. “You sent me straight to the person I needed.”

Luke’s head turned to the side as he cracked his neck. Then he rolled back his shoulders. She wanted to tell Luke that this was all a mistake, that she’d gotten confused, but Mina couldn’t say a word.

His twin. This is Luke’s twin.

And the really, really bad situation that she’d been in? It had just gotten about a hundred times worse.

But then an alarm started shrieking. The same alarm that had heralded the arrival of Garrick and his goons before. Sure enough, doors flew open and armed men rushed toward her cell. Garrick was leading the pack, and his eyes seemed to double in size when he saw that there appeared to be two Lukes in her cell.

“I should get her to safety, don’t you think?” the man holding her murmured.

Before Luke could reply, the guy had scooped Mina into his arms and flown straight up—flying right through the gaping hole he’d left in the ceiling.





Chapter Fourteen


“What in the hell?” Garrick blasted.

“Exactly,” Luke snarled right back, enraged. “Just hold that thought for one f*cking moment.” His knees bent and he shot into the air, flying right after Leo. His brother dared, dared to take Mina? No, it would not happen.

His skin heated. Burned. Smoke filled the air around him. His body stretched and his bones snapped. The shift rolled through him and when he looked down, when he saw the humans running out of the station and firing up at him…

His control broke. Luke opened his mouth and he breathed his fire onto them.

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“Look at him.”

Mina hated that his voice was just like Luke’s. She hated that his body was the same. His face the same. Leo. The twin.

“Look at the man you took for a lover and see him for just how evil he truly is.”

Her head turned. She saw a cloud of smoke rising from the Naval Air Station. Her breath rushed out as flames burst into the air—bright orange and red flames. And in the middle of all that fire…someone was moving.

Something was moving.

The creature burst out of the flames—big, dark, its mouth bursting with razor sharp teeth. Its massive wings cut through the air and its tail whipped behind the beast.

Not just a beast…

Scales were on its body. Big, heavy-looking scales that gleamed in the moonlight. Its eyes were huge but…serpentine in shape. Just like its head. Only it wasn’t a snake coming at her. It was a dragon. A freaking dragon! Breathing got very, very hard for Mina.

“That’s his true form. That’s what he is beneath the mask of a man. Evil and darkness. He burns and he destroys and he doesn’t care who he hurts.” Leo’s grip on her tightened. “I will take you away from him. You’ll be safe, I guarantee it. You were never meant to be with him. You aren’t one of his creatures. You aren’t—”

Gunshots cut through the night. She saw the bullets hit the dragon flying toward them. Luke wasn’t just hit once. Not twice. But again and again. The dragon’s giant body jerked and blood burst from his wounds. The gunshots hit his wings, ripping through them and…

It fell. The dragon fell.

No, he fell. Luke. His body crashed back to earth, falling right toward the shooting agents.

She opened her mouth, screaming for him, but no sound emerged. Nothing came out, not even a whimper as terror nearly choked her. Luke!

“Well, that was…unexpected.” The air fluttered around her. “I’ll get you to safety. You’ll be free. You’ll—”

She wasn’t leaving. She grabbed for the collar at her neck, yanking it with all of her strength. She could feel it tightening, biting into her skin, sinking deeper and cutting her air supply off as she struggled.

“What are you doing? What’s happening?” Alarm had entered Leo’s voice. “How can I help you?”

Get me down. Get me to Luke.

Her throat was being pierced—a sharp slice right from that cursed emerald. It was cutting into her and dizziness swam through her head. She just had to get the collar off.

“Why are you fighting this way? For him?”

She nodded even as she kept clawing at her throat.

“Dammit.” Leo’s arms tightened around her. “And here I thought we’d get away clean.” But then he turned his body and instead of flying up, they were suddenly hurtling straight toward the ground. She sucked in a deep breath and choked on the smoke as they went through that black cloud that the dragon—Luke—had created. Mina felt the lance of heat around her skin and then…