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"Those fucking cunts," Asher bit out as soon as they got into the car.
Jael was already stepping on the gas as soon as the car door was shut. There were emergency services on scene already, he doubted even the High Council would keep making a mess while they were around.
Asher shrugged off his mostly burnt coat, his face black with soot. His fur coat seemed to have kept most of the fire off him - Jael hoped that he wouldn’t see severe burns underneath the soot on the Alpha’s face.
"This is beyond going against the treaty, it’s an outright declaration of war." Davian spoke gravely, his anger was quieter, but it was no less intense.
Jael focused on getting them to where they needed to be in one piece. Central Area was eerily empty as they drove past, almost like the tension in the air was a palpable thing that the residents saw and steered clear of.
He just hoped that Nikolai and Angelo were together and alive, because the High Council clearly had no qualms playing dirty.
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Red reflected off Nikolai’s dark blue eyes like flames on the surface of a lake. He had his back to the unpainted wall of an abandoned building, Angelo in his arms.
The High Council’s men hadn’t surrounded the building, they had done worse... they had set it on fire. If they had stayed to fight or if they hadn’t noticed the arriving cars in time, they would have been caught in the fire.
Because it didn’t slowly catch on fire, rather, explosives seemed to have been rigged up in the decrepit building, and it also had to have been hosed down with gasoline because its ignition was instantaneous.