want to know. I’m going to find out, Harry. I’m not going to rest until Opus is destroyed.”
Rage burned in her brother’s eyes. His lip curled back from his teeth and fangs. “You need to give me that photo, Devony. And all of our father’s research. You need to give all of it to me. Right. Fucking. Now.”
She shook her head, taking another cautious step away from him. “I don’t have Dad’s files anymore. Your brilliant friends at Opus blew it all up when they torched my house.”
He smirked. “Your loss is my gain, then.”
“Not quite. The Order has copies of everything.”
A roar erupted from him. “You idiot!”
He lunged. In that same instant, she used her mind to hurl the sharpest chunk of her broken mug at her brother’s head. She put all her strength behind it. The jagged shard connected with the bone over his right eye and tore the skin open. He staggered back, blood dripping down his face.
His growl was unearthly. “You bitch. Now you’re going to suffer.”
He grabbed hold of her before she could escape his reach. His hands bit into her arms like talons, his eyes throwing off rage like a furnace.
She felt his power lock on to hers, seeking the connection so he could siphon her. But the hold wouldn’t take. “What the—? You drank from someone. You slut! You’re fucking bonded to that Order scum?”
Devony wrenched loose and shoved her brother backward with the full force of her strength. He crashed into one of her mother’s antique tables. It exploded beneath him, splintering into pieces as he fell to the floor.
She had to get out of there. She had to escape so she could let Rafe and the Order know that Harrison was corrupt. More than that, she needed to make sure they had the photograph her father had left for her.
She flashed into the office and grabbed it, stuffing it into the back pocket of her jeans. Harrison was struggling to his feet as she zipped past him in the foyer.
But now it wasn’t only him she had to contend with.
Two other Breed males stepped inside the front door. Cold eyes held her as they blocked her exit from the house. Unlike her brother, this pair was armed with guns and knives.
Harrison swiped angrily at the blood running into his eye and down the side of his face. “I told you they gave me one chance to show you the way.” He spat a mouthful of blood onto the heirloom rug. “You’re beyond my help now, Devony. Or my mercy.”
“So, you’re just going to let your death squad friends kill me?”
“Yes, Devony.” He walked up to her, stared her squarely in the eyes. “I don’t see anyone who’s going to stop them. Do you?”
“I will,” Rafe answered.
CHAPTER 28
Mathias Rowan had a car waiting for Rafe when the Order’s private jet touched down at Heathrow. If Rafe had known Devony’s terror was going to flood into his veins like a cold river halfway from the airport to Kensington, he would have enlisted Rowan and the whole damn warrior team in London to accompany him.
He wished like hell he had some backup now, as he’d entered the Darkhaven through the back door and found her trapped inside with a trio of menacing Breed thugs. The well-armed pair in suits just inside the front door posed the most immediate threat to her. Both grabbed for their guns the instant Rafe appeared in the kitchen archway.
Rafe didn’t hesitate for a moment. He let one of his blades fly. It nailed the bigger of the two in the throat. His larynx impaled, the vampire sagged to his knees on a choked howl, clutching at the blade protruding out of the front of his neck.
The thug’s suited partner opened fire at the same time, hitting Rafe in the stomach.
Devony screamed. “No!”
Fuck. Her cry hurt him worse than the gunshot wound.
Rafe could handle the injury and the pain. He’d taken a lot worse before and it hadn’t slowed him down. But thanks to their blood bond, every hit he took would be echoed inside her. He was going to kill these three assholes tonight for that offense alone.
Devony launched herself at the shooter, eyes ablaze and fangs erupting behind her parted lips. The huge guy tried to shake her off his back, but he didn’t go down. And, just like his Opus death squad partner, he had come here to kill.
“Devony!”
Rafe hardly got the chance to form the thought,