Rise to Submit [Rise of the Changelings, Book 4] (Siren Publishing Epic Romance, ManLove) Read Free Page A

later they were hauling ass down the street.
    “Let me go!” he shouted as he tried to twist out of her arms. His backside felt like the wounds were reopening as he flailed on the floor of the truck.
    “Settle the hell down, Ian,” she said as she pinned him to the floor of the truck, only exacerbating the pain by a hundredfold. “Stop fighting me or you’ll force me to knock you out.”
    Ian was gasping for breath, his eyes flickering around wildly for a way out. She was stronger than she looked. They were around the same height, Ian having maybe an inch or two on her, but hell if she didn’t have him immobilized. “Who are you?” he asked as he stopped struggling. He was too tired, and struggling with her while he was naked wasn’t the most comfortable thing he had done.
    “We are friends of Dorian’s.”
    Shame washed over Ian at the mention of his brother’s name. Aside from his parents, Dorian was the one person on this planet that Ian loved. Why would Dorian care enough to rescue him a second time? He knew his brother looked at him as trash. Ian was a fang addict and hung out at a BDSM club. How could Dorian not look at him with contempt? “Are you taking me to him?”
    The woman gazed down at him, and Ian saw pity and anger in her eyes. “Are you going to run again?”
    Ian turned his head, refusing to answer her. Hell yes he was going to run the first chance he had. How did he know this woman was telling the truth?
    For all he knew, she could be someone out to find Dorian and using Ian to get to his brother. He had been in the club for months, and wasn’t sure what was going on in the world around him.
    But Ian had heard snippets of things being said by the vampires.
    Dorian was a highly sought man.
    As he lay there, Ian began to shiver. His body was shaking so badly that the woman grabbed a few blankets and tucked them around his trembling body.
    But that didn’t help. The shakes were getting worse. He was beginning to think the shivering had nothing to do with being cold.
    All of a sudden excruciating pain raced through his body like a wildfire out of control, and Ian cried out in an agonizing expulsion of breath. He whimpered, the pain too intense as his chest began to hurt so badly that he curled into himself.
    “Shit, Nate, something is wrong with him. Pull over!”

Chapter Three
     
    Nate’s red Yukon drove into the empty parking lot, pulling up right next to Mason’s truck. Mason got out and walked over to meet them. He really didn’t like Nate. The man had one smart-ass mouth on him, and Mason wasn’t the one to deal with that kind of crap.
    “Did Rick tell you about Ian?” Selene asked as she jumped out of the back. She turned, grabbing a bag and handing it off to Mason.
    Mason had been sitting in his SUV, waiting on Nate and Selene to meet him in southern Kansas. Mason and the rest of the crew had already been through here, but Rick had sent him back to retrieve Dorian’s brother.
    “Just that I need to make sure he doesn’t run and to take care of him.” Rick hadn’t given Mason a whole lot of details, but he had asked Mason to make sure Ian didn’t run and to handle him with care.
    He wasn’t really sure what that meant. But after Rick and Nate had pulled his ass out of trouble in Georgia, it was the least he could do.
    Mason had wanted to bring Benito and Miguel along, but Rick had said that the less people around Ian right now, the better. It made Mason one curious man to know what was wrong with the guy.
    Selene shook her head. “It goes way deeper than that. He crashed when we first picked him up. I had to perform CPR on him. Do you know how to do CPR, Mason?”
    Mason nodded. “I took a course in college.” What did she mean he crashed? Like…a heart attack? Oh, hell, Mason hadn’t signed up for that shit.
    But he couldn’t let Rick down, either. The man had allowed Mason to stay in his Rebellion group. Mason had nowhere else to go, so, he would deal with