Mated Girl (Wolf Girl #4)(28)

Pulling back from him a little, I looked up into his searing blue eyes and allowed our imprint to fully enmesh once more. I opened myself to him, every emotion, every experience I’d had since we had been apart. Having Creek, becoming Paladin alpha, surviving the Dark Woods, missing him. All of it. He just looked into my eyes and nodded. Then I felt him open. He’d kept so much from me. There was so much darkness in him now, I wasn’t prepared for it. He’d contemplated suicide so many times in our absence together. He was beaten daily by guards and other rival prison gangs. He’d been starved, electrocuted thousands of time, near death. My chest felt like a five-hundred-pound weight sat on it as he pushed his emotions into me, sharing all he’d been through. He almost lost his mind not knowing what had become of me. The only thing that kept him together and going was his new pack of friends and the hope that I was alive. A tear slipped down my cheek knowing he’d been through so much pain. Leaning forward, he kissed the tear, melting it into his mouth.
“I love you so much,” I croaked.
His lips landed on mine and I couldn’t breathe for a moment, couldn’t move. Was this actually real? Were we finally together? I moaned as his warm wet tongue slipped into my mouth and I tasted him for the first time in forever.
“Hey, lovebirds, a little help!” Walsh suddenly cried.
Shaken from our reunion, Sawyer pulled back from our kiss and set me down, then we both spun.
Crap.
I noticed Luka, Walsh, and two other guys. I was assuming they were the rest of his “crew.” One was fey and the other troll. They were all locked into a vicious fight with five guards. Fists pounded, blood flew, bodies cracked, all in an effort to wrestle the guns away from them. The other men in the workout room were in the corner pulling weapons off of the dead fey guards and arming themselves.
Great.
Luka, the vampire, had uncuffed himself, and now tossed a guard across the room as if he were made of paper. The guard hit the wall with a thud just as another fey guard lunged for Luka, blade drawn. Sawyer jumped into the fight and I felt my power surge within me. We needed to get the hell out of here—and we needed to get Sage. That shield could go back up any minute, trapping us all inside of it. I surged forward with vampire speed and slammed into the fey guard about to stab Luka. His body crashed against the wall and I took his head into my hands and twisted. The sickening crunch of his neck breaking rang throughout the room and I dropped him on the floor and turned. Two remaining guards were rushing toward me.
“Demi!” Sawyer screamed, panic in his face. The guards had guns raised.
A pulse of power flared to life under my skin and I flung my arms out, sending a shield of magic at them akin to a bomb blast. It looked like a wave of blue light, and when it slammed into their bodies, they turned to ash.
“Holy shit,” Sawyer breathed, looking at the two piles of ash.
Okay that was freaky. I’d never done that before.
I swallowed hard, a bit shaken, and glanced around the room. The other guards had been killed or subdued.
“Damn, where can I find a woman like that?” Luka appraised me with pride. My gaze ran over his tattoos. Five Crew was printed in big block letters across his collarbone. I looked at Sawyer’s collarbone. Then Walsh. Then the fey and troll. They all had the same thing. This was Sawyer’s pack.
I’d accepted Marmal and Sage as my pack. And this was how Sawyer got through the last year. I wasn’t going to be a prick just because I hated vampires.
Sawyer grinned. “I told you she was amazing.”
Luka bowed before me, taking my hand into his and lightly kissing the top. “My lady Alpha, I am forever in your debt.”
Whoa. Was it hot in here or…? This charmer was nothing like the cold vampires I had met. I squirmed under his gaze and nodded as he released my hand.
“A friend of Sawyer’s is a friend of mine,” I told him.
He chuckled. “I know you hate my kind. That’s okay. My family is a bunch of douchebags.”
“Family?” I asked, cocking my head to the side.
Sawyer cleared his throat. “We should get out of here.”
Right.
“I’m Talon,” the troll dude said. He was a giant guy, standing well over six feet tall and looked like he was cut out of stone.
“Bennett.” The fey male saluted me. “Thanks for the save.”
All of the men in Sawyer’s little crew were extremely good looking and I knew Marmal and Sage would have no qualms about spending the next few days with them.
I nodded. “Well met.” We walked over to the busted-out window just as an alarm rang throughout the prison.
Sage.
They had finally figured out there was a prison break going on.
“Lockdown procedures commence now. We have an active infiltration,” a robotic female voice said over the loudspeaker.
“Go!” I shouted just as Pearl appeared in front of the window in all her glory.
“Holy fuck,” Luka breathed beside me. Bennett and Talon wasted no time leaping onto Pearl’s back, with Marmal’s help to steady them, as I bent down to my wolf.
“You have to make sure they don’t give Sage another injection. It will be easier to get her out if she’s not unconscious. Chew through the binds on her hands and feet and we’ll fly down right now and get you both out.”
She nodded and then took off, going ghostly as she plowed through the wall.
“Babe!” Sawyer called to me, and I looked up. We were the only two left. He reached out his hand to me. I slipped my cuffs back on and took his outstretched arm.
“Hey, take us with you!” a male snapped behind me. I craned my head to see the rest of the guys who’d been working out when the whole fight began. The one who had spoken was a tall vampire and he was holding a sleek handgun he’d stolen from the guard. His cuffs were still on, which let me know Sawyer hadn’t shared the key with them.