floor. I could taste gunpowder and blood on the air and blindly fired behind me. The condo door swung back open, and I scrambled in. Raphael tried to push it closed, but he was met with a massive man trying to push his way in.
I fired through the gap, hearing an animalistic scream. It didn’t slow him down, though. I kept firing until I ran out of bullets, wondering if any of them helped. Between that and the size of the man, I had some idea who and what he was.
“Oh, shit.” I crawled away a few more feet from the door while Raphael stood in a standoff against the werewolf who had done something no werewolf could do. I found our bags and grabbed another clip, this one loaded with silver. I turned back and began to take aim.
“Raph, let him through!” I ordered.
Raphael looked over his shoulder like I was crazy.
“Do it!” I yelled.
He jumped back, and the werewolf monstrosity barreled through, snarling. Drool fell from the movie monster’s mouth in long strings like a rabid animal. This was what humans wanted werewolves to be. This was the version of them that inspired monsters.
Why did they keep you in the prison? Why couldn’t they find some other hole to keep you?
“Raph, back off,” I ordered, aiming for his legs to bring him down. I took a shot, but the damn wolf moved faster than I could blink, tackling the closest living creature to him, my roommate. Unable to take another shot, I watched as they rolled and fought across my condo, knocking things off the walls and sending furniture into different areas of the room.
Wesley must have realized I wasn’t the biggest threat in the room because he was ignoring me now. It gave me a chance to take stock. Wesley was kept in a special cell that must have been unlocked when the prison’s systems failed. He’d been a special project. Not quite a prisoner, but definitely not allowed his freedom.
Whoever let him out was a sick son of a bitch. Wesley didn’t deserve what was going to happen to him. The others certainly did, but not Wesley.
Before I could tell Raphael to hold him for me to kill him, the werewolf was thrown out the window. I stood shell-shocked for a minute as I realized what Raphael had just done. Those windows were able to withstand bullets. They certainly weren’t supposed to allow bodies to be thrown through them. It was just a piece of the ultra-strong puzzle Raphael was and a stunning one at that.
“Shit,” I whispered, letting it trail off as Raphael ran over to me, bleeding from a dozen places, his shirt torn to hell.
“Kaliya, we need to go,” he said swiftly, grabbing my arm and tugging. With his free hand, he grabbed one of my bags. “Kaliya.”
I watched the window as I saw Wesley begin to stir on my patio.
“Fuck.” I started moving, realizing that wasn’t going to put the werewolf down for the count. I grabbed the second bag and ran out with my roommate, going into the service hallway. I deadbolted the service hall door before jumping into the elevator. While we went down, I pulled my phone out of my pocket, glad to see it made it out. I didn’t need another Sinclair style security breach.
“Who are you calling for help?”
“No one. We have help in the condo,” I answered, hitting the button to disengage the security in Raphael’s room where I had locked away my uncle. “If those two tangle, it buys us time. Wesley will fly down the stairs and meet us in the parking garage if I don’t give him something to chew on.”
“And your uncle is a good idea for that? Don’t we need him?” Raphael tried to grab the phone from me, but I was fast enough to get away.
“He’s better than nothing or, you know, just being dead,” I snapped, not letting guilt get to me. Nakul had come with me and given me good information and wanted to help, but he was still one of them—one of the bad guys, one of the murderers who should have died when they were caught. Keeping Raphael and me alive was the first priority. Everyone else could go fuck themselves, especially my uncle.
“There’s a chance Wesley would sniff him out anyway and pick a fight. We’re just making it easier. Once we’re in the car, I need to call Hasan again. This is a major