Seductions (Alpha City Book 4) Read Free

windows with guns. She slammed on her brakes as the bullets slammed into the other cars. Then she sped up again. She couldn’t let them get ahead of her and block her. The car was meant for speed, but it wasn’t bulletproof. When one of Claudia’s guards got too close, she rammed into the side of his vehicle. She cringed at the sound of metal scraping against her car. If she went down, she was going down fighting. They were not getting their hands on Carina again.
    Gasping, the guards crashed into the side of her again. She couldn’t take much more of this. The vehicle couldn’t take much more damage before the ramming would break off a major part of the vehicle. With a worrying crunch of metal, they hit the side of her again. “Please Me-Len, hurry.”
    It happened so quickly she almost missed it. Something flew over the vehicle. It sounded like a plane, but not as loud. She sped up again, getting ahead of her pursuers. She looked in her rearview mirror to see one of the vehicles blow up. She gasped as the other one exploded, too. Her phone started ringing.
    “Hello, Me-Len.”
    “We’re coming, but the bears sent you some help. Have you seen them yet?”
    “Yes. Well, I guess so. The two vehicles following me just…just blew up.”
    “Good, now keep driving and I will meet you at the city limits when you get into Alpha City. How are Carina and Jessica?”
    “Me-Len.” Sage caught herself before she broke down and cried. “I didn’t have enough time to get my mother out, Me-Len. I…I will have to go back and get her.”
    “Just get here, Sage. We will get your mother.” Sage hung up the phone and continued on toward the city limits.
    She kept glancing back at Carina. Glass had shattered all over her, but it appeared that she still hadn’t moved. She was still rolled up in a ball. Sage’s cell phone rang again, and thinking it was Me-Len, she answered. “Me-Len, I think I’m close.”
    “You’ll regret this, Sage Wingate. That girl belongs to me and you’ll turn around and bring her back.” Sage’s heart dropped as she listened to Claudia Blackwood’s evil voice. “Your mother says hello, by the way.”
    “If you hurt my mother, I’m going to ki—”
    Claudia laughed. “You’re not in any place to give me orders, little witch. I will exchange your mother for the girl. Turn around now and we will make the swap. Deal?”
    Sage wiped the tears from her eyes. It didn’t matter if she turned Carina over to Claudia. Sage knew that the witch would kill her mother and then her.
    “Do we have a deal?” Claudia yelled impatient.
    “No.”
    She heard her mother screaming as the phone hung up.
    “Forgive me mom.” Sage cried out.

Chapter Two
    F rom the moment she got to the city limits and saw Me-Len jump out of a car, everything became a blur. She was now trying to figure out how her life had become so crazy. As soon as she got the car stopped, they’d had to pry the back door open, and Carina was lifted out and put on some blankets. The atmosphere became frenzied when they saw how bad Claudia and Jamal had tortured Carina. The growling was what got her attention. She stepped back and held on to Me-Len’s hand as they watched them assess Carina’s injuries.
    “What did they do to you, little one?” Kayden Lynn, the Alpha of the panthers whispered, trying to pull Carina’s hair away from her face.
    “I couldn’t leave her there. They would have killed her. She didn’t open the book, Me-Len. She didn’t open the book for her,” Sage said her voice grim.
    Getting up, Sage turned around and watched as a woman leaned over Carina. She cut into her wrist, pouring her blood onto Carina’s wounds, and placed her hands on top of the wounds. “That is Maggie, she’s a Healer.”
    “I’ve never seen anyone do that,” Sage said. Me-Len put her arm around her and walked her over to Carina.
    “Maggie’s healing is different, but very powerful. When she’s done, Carina won’t have a mark on