Resisting the Moon (Royal Shifters #2)(38)

“What are you doing?”

“Jaret wants you to be part of the entertainment tonight. The show starts in an hour.” He nudged me toward the door, and I looked back at Sebastian.

“What about him?”

Stefan chuckled and pushed me and Amelie out of the door. “He’s coming too, but we’re taking extra precautions with him. Can’t have him killing anyone.”

“Be safe, Sebastian.”

“I will, love.”

We walked through the other room and out the door. There was a large barn down the path, nestled further into the woods. Amelie and I looked at each other, dread settling into the pit of my stomach. Hoots and hollers rang out from the barn and I could only imagine why. Josef was in there; I could smell him.

The door to the barn opened and three wolves stumbled out with beers in their hands. They broke into laughter as they watched us approach. I could smell their lust, in fact, I choked on it. If Jaret’s idea of a party was to watch us be gang raped, he had another thing coming. With evil leers on their faces, the men stepped aside so we could walk in.

Amelie immediately found Jaret and closed her eyes. “I may not be able to hear his thoughts, but I sure as hell can feel them.”

“What is he doing?” I asked.

She opened her eyes and they flashed with anger. “He’s mocking me. No doubt about how gullible I am. Maybe it’s a good thing he can’t hear my thoughts. If he could, he’d hear how small I think his dick is. The men in our pack were much larger.”

Jaret’s eyes blazed and I knew everyone in the room had heard her. Stefan and the other guy backed away when he approached us. He walked right past me and grabbed Amelie by the neck. “If you dare say anything like that again, I’ll rip out your goddamned throat. I don’t care if you are carrying my child.”

I gasped, completely at a loss for words. She was pregnant?

Her lips quivered but she didn’t back down. “Go ahead and kill me,” she challenged. “I’d rather be dead than have to look at you every day for the next nine months.”

“Anything for you, my dear.” He turned his lethal gaze to Stefan. “Take them inside.”

Stefan grabbed me by the arm, his grip achingly tight as he dragged me the rest of the way into the barn. I looked over at Amelie, despair and shame evident on her face. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I just found out two weeks ago when Laila told me. Apparently, she can sense the baby inside me. I was so excited when I found out. Now I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do.”

“We’ll figure it out, I promise. You won’t go through it alone.” If we did get out of this alive, would she even want the baby? What would she tell the child about their father? Unfortunately, she’d have some hard roads ahead.

There was a wall blocking our view, and when we walked past it, I thought I was going to be sick. Josef was naked, his arms and legs tied to the wall as if he was a giant X. There were lashes all over his body and blood dripping down his skin.

“What the hell are you doing to him?” I shouted. Stefan shoved me into a chair and Amelie landed in the one beside me.

Jaret came up from behind and put his arm around us both. “He’s facing his punishment, just like you will when the time comes. The boys will love it when you’re up there, spread apart and ready for the taking.”

The thought terrified me, but I’d make sure I was dead before that could ever happen. “Doesn’t say much for your pack if you have to tie women up just to f*ck them. Didn’t realize they were all pussies.”

Stefan growled but Jaret chuckled in my ear. “I’d watch what I say if I were you. My men might decide they don’t want to wait any longer.” The second he said it, Sebastian’s power could be felt throughout the room.

“You might want to watch what you say as well,” I warned.

Jaret turned around and groaned. “What the f*ck happened?”

Amelie and I looked over our shoulders. Eyes wide, I watched as Sebastian walked in, surrounded by four wolves; all of them were beaten and bloody. They slammed him down in the chair beside me while Jaret demanded to know what happened. I wanted to touch him, but my hands were still tied behind my back.

I nudged him with my shoulder and stayed there. I had to feel him. “What happened?”

He coughed up blood and spit it out. “They provoked me and I made sure they paid for it.”

“What did they say?”

His anger flared. “I don’t want to talk about it.” He didn’t want to talk about it, but I could see what happened as clear as day in his mind; he couldn’t stop me from seeing. They’d said they were going to pass me around until I begged for more. Fucking *s.

“I’ll kill them before they can do that, Sebastian. I’m stronger now. They don’t know what we’re capable of.”

He glanced over his shoulder at the men he’d obliterated. “Now they do. I did all of that damage restrained with wolfsbane. There’s no way in hell they could do that, and they know it.”

“Which makes you more of a threat. Only, now we have bigger problems.”

Brows furrowed, he met my gaze. “Other than Josef being strung up like a puppet, what else is there?”

“Amelie’s pregnant.” He froze and blew out a sigh. “Exactly. I can’t imagine what she must be going through. Only now, I’m worried about Josef. What are they going to do to him?”