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Bra, Anka ith Mathiasthen disappeared”

“So you don’t even know if she’s alive?”

Caden hadn’t wanted to entertain the notion that she ion of his sto Mathais’s abduction, but sincethe ruthless bastard may have killed her and disposed of her body

Bram shook his head

“What’s been done to recover her?” Shock barked

Not a word about Lucan or what he’d endured Prick “I’s to my brother, and I will—”

“Piss off,” Shock shouted “If your brother hadn’t stolen her away, she would have been my mate, safe in my house I will find her”

Over his dead body He must find Anka before Shock did

“How?” Braed “Can you ask Mathias?”

“Call the others I’ll explain”

Within a few uments ensued Accusations were hurled Shock didn’t have enerally regarded as a traitor Caden srim satisfaction

It took a fewmore than a bit disinterested in Shock’s excuses

Once everyone was seated, Shock brushed everyone’s attitudes aside and paced at the front of the roo off of him

“First, I had no notion about Anka” Shock looked up and speared Caden with a glance “I will do everything I can to find her You have my word”

The word of a wizard, especially this one,that point would only belabor the conversation

“You all assuan “Given ined that the lot of you would be that thick”

“Meaning?” Bra thin ice

“Do you daft fools really believe you’re going to defeat Mathias in a fair fight? We’re five; seven if we count junior and the lunatic”

Again, Caden gnashed his teeth to restrain the urge to pound Shock

“Mathias,” he went on, “has a growing arhters against a sea of willing suicide killers Did you honestly believe we could ithout a spy? Without someone to rot the Anarki from the inside out?”

Damn it all Caden really hated this bastard But he made sense

Bram raised a sharp brow “So you abandoned us abruptly because you saw an opportunity to pretend to join Mathias’s cause, earn his trust, and eventually stab him in the back?”

“Exactly I visitedcell after Lucan and Duke captured hiot an earful of Zain’s hero worship for Mathias and a load of alar infor one step ahead The only way to do that is to have a mole on the inside”

Marrok crossed his enormous arms across his chest “If that is so, why did you not warn us that Mathias had killed my mate’s father, thenthe diary to him? Or that he planned to attack in the tunnel?”

“Or have any bloody clue what had happened to Anka or where she is now?” Caden challenged

He cursed “Mathias knows I’ve never backed others with his views, so he’s leery of ress Be patient”

Be patientwhile the Doo honest or using these words as a ploy so he could betray thelance around proved warriors’ attitudes were anywhere fro to accusatory

“Let’s pretend for a mo I would say is—”

“Pretend you believe? Piss off The lot of you!” He pinned Braotten, you asked me to join the Doomsday Brethren I don’t need your distrust”

Shock charged toward the door Marrok blocked it

“Out of my way, human”

Marrok leveled him with a stare that would make a normal man shiver “I will let you leave when Bram tells me you can pass Not before”

“I can zap the life out of you,” he sneered

Marrok drew his broadsword “Not before I sever your head froh As you always say, Marrok, we cannot defeat Mathias if we are too busy fighting one another Because I have no better option and you know it, ill continue with your ‘plan,’ Shock For noant regular reports, and they’d best be useful Provide me ideas about the means necessary to defeat Mathias, information like the size of his army and any vulnerabilities And do it quickly If you do, we’ll get on just fine Betray me, and I will find you, then kill you slowly and without mercy”

Caden smiled “With that I’ll be happy to help”

Mondayhis head inside Sydney’s office He looked generally out of sorts and agitated Pity for hiet on very well

Since he couldn’t read her lascivious thoughts or knohat she’d written in her “ain She sighed