Suppressant."
A smile split across her cheeks and warmth spread through my chest.
"Thank you," she said seriously and I nodded, turning away from her and jogging toward the exit just as Pudding plodded through the door with a line of blood on his cheek, but a smile on his face.
"Get moving, Pud!" I called to him and he chuckled.
"I am well on the move, hound," he called after me and I pushed through the doors, hearing screams and shouts from the guards upstairs.
If Sin was in trouble, I had to find him and make sure he got the fuck back here in time to make it out. There was nothing I wouldn't do to make that happen for Rosalie. Even if I was putting my own freedom on the line. And I wondered when the mate bond had become far more than just a force beyond my control and turned into a deep kind of love that would surpass the bond even if it no longer existed. For her, I'd do anything. So by the fucking moon, where the hell was Sin Wilder?
M y heart pounded with fear as I watched Ethan leave and I tried to convince myself that everything was okay. I'd told everyone that the only people I wouldn't leave here without were Sin and Roary, but as he left me behind, I knew that wasn't true. Me and Ethan had issues, but I wasn't going to be leaving him in this place. He was mine. My soulmate. La mia anima gemella. The one the moon had chosen for me. And as much as that particular celestial being liked to choose strange paths of fate for me to follow, I truly believed that she'd never set me wrong before. Which meant I needed my mate to come with us when we escaped this place or I wouldn't be leaving either.
I swallowed thickly as I admitted that to myself and tried to figure out when the fuck that shift in attitude had occurred. But maybe I'd been feeling like this for a long time and I just hadn't wanted to accept it because I was a stubborn stronzo and a Taurus never faltered from their path. But I was starting to think I needed to learn to compromise at least a little. Just this once. I needed to because I was aching for Ethan Shadowbrook to be mine for now and always and I wasn't going to let anything stop us from claiming that fate.
"Everyone needs to start heading into the tunnels," I barked, turning my back on the door and raising my chin as I used my Alpha tone with all of them. "I'm going to put the call in to Jerome and make sure that he locks off the guards' quarters. Cain is up there, so we don't have to worry about a Vampire sneaking up on us. Just follow Plunger, stay together and wait for me, Sin and Ethan to catch up to you before you breach the surface."
Gustard caught my eye with a wicked smirk and I cursed beneath my breath, wondering if the moon might wanna give me the gift of smiting so I could smite him good. Come on, just a little smite for a nasty bastardo. Please?
The moon didn’t seem to be in a giving mood, so I gave up on that idea and forced myself to forget it for now. Roary followed me as I accepted two transmitters from Pudding and used the first to connect a call to Jerome.
"Hello, beautiful, do you have my cargo ready to go?" Jerome's silken voice came across the transmitter as I lifted it to my ear and I blew out a relieved breath to hear that he was there and waiting.
"You know Sin, he's keeping us on our toes," I admitted.
"Well don't go making the mistake of leaving that place without him," he replied in a deadly tone. "He might be a fuck up and real piece of work to deal with, but he's my brother and I want him out of there. If you leave him behind, I don't think you need me to spell out what that would mean for you."
"No need to threaten me, stronzo, I've been working this job for months. I'm hardly going to execute the plan without the main player in tow. You still haven't paid me my fee after all."
Jerome chuckled and once again we were the best of friends. He was a nasty bastardo to anyone