Chapter 110 Late
RONAN
The second that elevator swallowed Seraphina, my wolf snapped loose inside me. What the fuck just happened? When I had agreed to plan B, I never agreed to her being taken like that.
My wolf roared violently and furious in my mind as I sprinted my boots barely hitting the floor as I vaulted over the railing. Asher and Finn were already converging from opposite ends of the brothel, both wearing the same storm–eyed confusion.
We reached the blank wall where the elevator had disappeared. There was nothing but smooth marble and silence.
“Fuck!” I gritted my teeth, slamming my fists into the seam where the elevator had closed. My claws half–formed, fighting to force the metal open, but it was no use. Instead it flashed a red light as if another tried to rip it open and it would set off an alarm
“He’s gone.” Finn rasped, slamming his palm against the wall, “Seth! Seth, do you hear me?” he yelled into the communicator. but there was only static, “Fuck! It’s useless,” he growled, ripping it off from his ear.
The signal had cut the moment she descended.
Communication might not work underground.” Asher said flatly, breath tight, “That elevator, it didn’t go up. It went down.”
Finn frowned, “That meant…”
All of us stared at each other for a long moment.
“Underground. “I realized as I glanced down at my feet feeling something for the slightest moment.
This wasn’t just a brothel.
It was more like a fortress.
A fortress of flesh, secrets, and goddamn horror buried beneath our feet.
“That’s where they’re keeping Grace,” Asher said, his voice low but certain, “That’s why we could not find her anywhere up here. Now, Seth’s in there too.”
My jaw clenched as I looked across the hall, “How dare that
IT owner…
Ryker stood across in the main hall, unmoving, facing a tall man in a blood–red suit, clearly the brothel owner’s right–hand dog but his eyes were flickering in our direction as he observed everything. Our eyes met for a couple of moments as the message passed between us.
I exchanged looks with Asher and Finn as we all retreated into the darkness.
Back in the hall the owner’s right hand man had been doing his master’s work very well.
“Please come with me. Alpha,” the right hand man was smiling, courteous, leading Ryker out of the tall, “Your she wolves await, Alpha” the man urged, bowing with mock politeness, “You can select anyone you like.”
Hyker silently followed him to the guest room. As soon as he entered, the man it to send the girls into the room. The dour shut behind hum and Ryker lifted his gaze to meet mine. He already knew I was in the room.
“How dare you sell him?! I growded, stepping closer to him.
“It was you people who started plan B. he growled back stepping forward.
Then who the fuck tuld you that you could sell him for real?” I demanded, barely a hand’s breadth away from each other.
- this expression darkened. “Have you fucking lost your mind! He was willing to be sold for Grace in plan 8. Did I really sell
Before the gunient could take a turn for the worst, Aster slipped into the room through the window, “We have to enter the underground brothel, he looked at the two of us with a frown and growled. You two need to fucking forget about your
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hatered for each other right now. We have to not only save Grace but Seth Darven now as well!”
I noticed something in his hand and asked. “What is that?”
“I stole the building’s blueprints,” he walked closer to us. “A map to the entire brothel!”
Finished
Before we could even speak, the door burst open again and Finn entered, dragging the bleeding, unconscious right–hand. man by the hair.
“And this, he muttered, throwing him to the ground, “is the key.”
He pulled a thin plastic chip from the man’s pocket, holding up the thumbprint scanner. “We use his print to override the elevator lock.”
I looked between the two of them, Asher with the map, Finn with the access key.
Good.
We were in.
Within minutes, we returned to the panel. The print scanner lit green. The elevator doors slid open with a soft ding, like some mockery of innocence.
As we stepped in, the silence was suffocating. It was clearly an elevator used by the owner and his closest people.
Asher unfolded the massive map once again in his hands. Over 120 rooms, twisted like a labyrinth. No logical pattern. Some were labeled for private shows, others for training, others unlabeled with just numbers. We scanned the map quickly. Marked the most likely wings, locked rooms, reinforced ones, locations away from the main flow of traffic. There were wolves guarding the area.
“Grace could be in any of these,” Finn whispered, his eyes going to the area in the map where he selected to look in and doubled. “And now Seth too.”
“It looks like we are late,” Ryker murmured, his eyes going to the locations that he debuted and chose to go.
“Why are we late?! Grace is beautiful and Alpha blood. Everything that this Alley desires. They won’t kill her. She will be alive. Finn frowned.
“When did I say she would be dead?” Ryker lifted his gaze and looked at me then Asher and Finn, “Of course she will be alive but judging by the other girls in the brothel, she might have become the prey of some lustful Alpha by now. She has been here for over sixteen hours now. Better to move before something worse, like long term harm to her body or something,” he stated the fact raw and unfiltered.
A dead silence fell in the elevator.
The_Seth.” Finn spoke under his breath but I heard him clearly.
Asher’s eyes snapped to him, when the elevator opened Finn and Asher stormed out first
Ryker met my gaze once before exiting while I stood in the elevator silent and unmoving while my wolf grew restless for some reason I put my hand over my chest feeling that there was something wrong with Seraphina and my wolf appeared in my eyes bloodthirsty
Who dared to touch her?”
