Unleash The Moon (The Preternaturals Book 6) Read Online Free PDF

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the preternaturals, they’d used magic to find new technologies and
then blended the two into an almost seamless whole. Suddenly they
had no need or use for fossil fuels. Nobody cared about them
anymore. Oil fields had been abandoned all over the world.
    The remaining preternaturals had taken it upon
themselves to gain control of them because some might need to
travel long distances using vehicles left behind. Automobile
companies outside the major cities were taken over as well,
creating a slow but steady trickle of new vehicles to replace the
old ones that wore out.
    The truck Sydney and Jacob were in was an old green
beater that had managed to last over twenty years, which made it
dinosaur-old in car age. It had been well cared for, even if the
sides of it were rusting. Jacob had found it pretty easily at an
abandoned service station in the middle of Cary Town—a service
station that some intrepid rebel had made a gasoline delivery
to.
    The entire town had crumbled like some
post-apocalyptic nightmare without enough people to keep things
running. But Sydney still had the vaguest memory of her father’s
penthouse at the Cary Town Luxury Apartments, before he’d relocated
them permanently to the compound.
    “ Whatcha thinking about, Syd?”
Jacob asked. His hand drifted to her knee, and she shifted closer
to the window.
    She was now keenly aware of the danger Jacob posed.
Sure, they’d slept together before, and deep down she knew he
hadn’t had much of a choice in the matter. He’d been their blood
slave, and neither she nor Elise had been particularly shy about
utilizing his other charms.
    But Sydney had never tried to force herself on him.
She couldn’t have anyway, but maybe, with her father being who he
was, the threat had been implied if the princess was made unhappy.
That thought horrified her. She hoped Jacob hadn’t seen it that
way, but now wasn’t the best time to bring the conversation up. Not
when they were on a deserted road, and he was the most powerful
being within screaming distance.
    “ Nothing,” she replied.
    “ Come on, that isn’t the face of
somebody thinking about nothing.”
    “ I was just thinking about how
everything has changed so much.” They’d been driving for hours, and
she’d fought not to think much about her parents or how they would
feel about all this. But she’d been suffocating there. They had to
understand. Weren’t they suffocating, too?
    But her parents had seemed happy. Instead of hating
the confinement, her dad especially had seemed sedate most of the
time. The pressures of being king had faded once he lost control of
everything. It was as if he’d found some zen place now that he
couldn’t micromanage the entire world.
    He’d been content to micromanage Sydney instead. It
was an uncharitable thing to think about her father. He worried
about her.
    As long as he knew his mate and daughter were safe,
he seemed happy. He was very different from the Anthony Burgess
she’d heard stories about. It made her wonder if they were even all
true.
    “ Maybe we should go back,” Sydney
said, already regretting her decision. She could negotiate
something less restrictive with her father. He loved her. Maybe he
could be reasoned with. Though, by the time she got back, her dad
would be so livid she might be confined to not just the compound,
but her room as well, under guard until he calmed down. And with a
vampire, that could be months.
    He wasn’t known to let go of grudges. He’d been
obsessed for years with finding out where the Cary Town pack’s den
was. When he’d finally discovered the den, it didn’t matter
anymore. Things had spiraled well past the point where he could
control anything. Sydney used to play with the alpha wolf’s
pup.
    Noah hadn’t shifted to human for the first time
until he was five, and it was so weird for her that Sydney didn’t
see him for a few weeks after that because she couldn’t understand
why he had turned into a boy.