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was in awe of her strength. She never ceased to amaze me. Damn if I didn’t feel inferior and weak next to her. How many times was she going to have to save me? I’m the man. I was supposed to be saving her.
    I knew I didn’t have much of a chance against the gang of vampeens that attacked us, but had I been carrying a weapon, we would have had a fighting chance. That was the first thing I planned to do. If Lexi died by their hands, I’d rob every bank I had to in order to afford the weapons necessary to wipe him and his entire army out. I was tired of being pathetic; I was tired of losing. We weren’t puppets. Our lives weren’t toys to be played with, and I’d see to it that no one else had that power over us again.
    She walked over and gently kissed my lips; her emotions grazed the surface of my mouth. I inhaled her scent, the smell of her surrounding me, squeezing my heart. She kissed my shoulder before squatting before me. She pushed her small, delicate rubber-gloved fingers between the tiny space between my leg and the metal cuff.
    “Move them closer together,” she said. Will lifted me at my waist and moved me a couple feet from Craig, whom Auggy had carried over. “When you free them, I want all of you out of here in case anything goes wrong. Get as far away as you can. No ‘we can’t leave Lexi’ crap. Just go. Auggy, get Dr. H. to take care of them.”
    “You go it, sweetie.” Damn. The gruff man sounded soft all of a sudden. That didn’t bode well to me.
    “What about you?” I pressed.
    “I’ll probably pass out for a while. If you don’t—”
    “Wait. Why don’t we have someone solder these off?” Claire perked up.
    “Because there are live wires running through those chains and the cuffs. That’s how they’ll go off.”
    “Wouldn’t the heat melt the metal, but leave the wires intact so they could get out?” Her brows furrowed. She was trying hard.
    “No. It’d melt the wire casing and probably set them both off,” Auggy answered.
    “Oh.” Her tone was defeated. It was obvious her hope had deflated with it.
    “I’ll be okay, Aunt Claire,” Lexi tried to assure her, but the woman didn’t hear it.
    “Do you know how damn hard it’d be if I lost you, Alexa? Are you even thinking about that?” Her voice went up an octave, revealing her worry .
    “I’m not planning on dying young, Aunt Claire. I’m not planning to let a little electricity send me to my grave. What I am planning is to give you all the opportunity to get away. Nothing more, nothing less.”
    “I know.” Her eyes watered as she studied Lexi.
    “Enough of the dramatics. This isn’t the theater; it’s life. Now let’s either do this or leave them to rot.” Auggy’s words echoed through the confined cellar, a growl in his tone.
    Lexi immediately sat down between Craig and me. Her body was dwarfed by our towering figures looming above her. I felt her hands shaking as she gripped the cuff. She was putting on a brave face, but I could tell she was scared shitless. I’d known that when she immediately closed off her thoughts the second we came into view.
    “On the count of three, you two rip open the cuffs on his wrists and then his ankles. I’ll do the same here. You ready, Lex?” Auggy asked. She nodded, staring at the floor. Her entire body tensed with anticipation. “One, two…three!”
    In a flash I was free and being whisked outside. My feet and hands were numb; no pain hitting me when Will slapped part of me into a tree, the bark scraping my skin. I lifted my head and saw the flash in the sky.
    “ Oh, God, Lex. You have to come back to me. Concentrate, babe. Stay strong. ”
    It was all I could do. I could only encourage her from afar. I wasn’t the one Sir Staten had cursed; I wasn’t the one who sassed vamps. I was her weak fiancé, and the reason she was enduring all of this right now.
     

Chapter 4
    I kept my eyes closed as the first shockwave ran through me. It was almost as if I was