Total pages in book: 70
Estimated words: 65094 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65094 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
No one knew that I had aspirations to make the sector a safe place for everyone to live.
Braeden had given me the friendship I had sought. We were more like brothers than cousins. I protected him and often took the beatings meant for him. I didn’t notice until recently that he would often undermine me or he would subtly imply I wasn’t worthy of being Sector Leader. He was the reason that my insecurities flourished.
My heart grows heavy that all the time, I cared for him he hated me.
“You could have taken the Sector Leader position after your father died. I’d offered it to you.”
Braeden shook his head. “You’re kidding me. The people wanted you because you’d won the challenge. Besides, it was much more fun making you look bad. I played the long game and now here we are. It’s been fun destroying everything you’ve built. But I’ll tell you what. I will let you and your little whore here live if you step down voluntarily. You and this rebel will spend the rest of your days in a holding cell, but at least you’ll have your lives.”
“Let’s say I do step down. What’s going to stop anyone from challenging you? You’re weak. Any number of these Enforcers surrounding you could take you in a challenge. Uncle was right about you.”
The condescending smirk he’d worn only minutes before was gone.
“You bastard! I will kill you! But first I’ll take your whore out.”
He raises his knife and I sprint toward him, but several Enforcers block me.
To my surprise however, Jamie, stomps Braeden’s foot and elbows him in the midsection. The move temporarily stuns my cousin and she manages to twist herself out of his grasp.
I plow through the Enforcer with my claws slashing wildly. I could fight them and take several of them out, but their numbers were too great, and I had to get Jamie out of here.
I grab and lift her into my arms before running for the exit.
As we make it to the door, I’m shot by a laser.
“Draken!” Jamie cries out.
I grit my teeth and press on despite the pain. I make it outside and run across the grounds with several Enforcers on my heel. I just need to make it to the exit.
My current speed is much slower than it is in my second form but I run with all my might.”
“Put me, down. I’m slowing you down,” Jamie says even though she’s still clinging to me tightly.
“Never.”
Just then a message can be heard through the communicator pin I have affixed to my collar. The communication jammer’s strength usually covers the ground of the office. But somehow it doesn’t now by some miracle. Whatever the reason, I’m thankful.
“Voice activation required for guests to enter.”
Relief fills me. My backup has arrived. And though Braeden may have thought he’d covered everything, he didn’t think to change the authorization on the front of the fortress gates.
“Permission granted,” the automated voice replies.
Now that I knew Magnus and his team were here, I felt comfortable releasing Jamie. I put her on her feet. “I want you to run, and don’t look back. I’ll hold them off.”
She shakes her head. “I can’t leave you like this.”
“You will. I don’t know what I would do if something happens to you. Go!”
She looks like she wants to argue but maybe she sees something in my eyes that tells her I won’t back down. Jamie stands on the tips of her toes and gives me a quick peck on the lips
“Be careful,” she cautions before taking off.
Just then I’m surrounded by Enforcers and I’m forced to fight for my life.
My clothing rips when I morph the upper half of my body to give me the added strength as I claw and punch, my way through those who dare to charge toward me.
I disembowel one Enforcer and pluck the eyes out of another. The more I take down however, the more keep coming. Some of them manage to land kicks and punches on my body but I continue to fight making sure none of them get past me to go after Jamie.
Just when I’m on the brink of being overwhelmed, someone plucks an Enforcer off his feet and tosses him in the air.
Magnus is here along with a large group of his own team. I notice his second in command is with him.
The three of us fight alongside each other until the number of enemies dwindle. Blood and limbs fly everywhere.
One of Braeden’s loyalists attempts to run away when he realizes the tide has turned. But I pounce on him and bite into his neck, and rip his throat out before spitting his flesh into his face.
I then rip his arms out of their socket.
With that group of Enforcers weeded out, I head back to the garage and head toward Braeden.