#Chapter 373 – Betrayer

Roger

“My phone,” Dominic murmurs as I look over his wounds. “Fuck your phone,” I murmur, shaking my head and leaning closer to a deep slice on his stomach that makes me hiss with anxiety.

“Roger,” Dominic snaps, and I look up at him with a frown. “The priest – he said the master had Rafe. Check my fucking phone – Ella will…” his head. 1 falls back, exhausted. But I interpret his meaning. So, I reach for his back pocket. Dominic moans loudly as I turn him a little so that I can get behind him, but eventually I get the phone and flick through it, my face going pale at what I see.

“Shit,” I murmur, flipping through the messages first from our father’s phone and then an unfamiliar number.

“What?” he asks.

“They don’t have Rafe,” I sigh, tucking the phone into my own back pocket. ” The priest was wrong about that. The baby’s still with Ella and Cora. But…” I sigh, and Dominic opens his eyes to look at me, bidding me silently to tell him everything I know. “They attacked the bunker when we left. The girls got out through the passage – they had to leave dad behind. And…Cora’s hurt,” I say, working hard to get the words out steadily. “They went to Hank, to try to patch them up.”

Dominic’s eyes go wide now. “Ella’s gift?”

“Bound,” I say, shaking my head. “I don’t know how-”

“Doesn’t matter,” my brother murmurs, and then to my shock – he curls his body to sit up, almost screaming at the pain it causes him.

I shout, putting my hands on his shoulders, but he works to swat me

says, panting and holding my eyes. We can’t – we can’t trust

my head. “Let me go, Dominic,” I say, shaking my head. “You’re in,” I hesitate, but when I look at the blood seeping

I sigh, knowing it’s a

and working to put my arm beneath my brother’s shoulder to help him up. “But if you

get him panting to his feet, but I ignore it, seeing Conor

Sir,” Conor reports, looking anxiously towards my brother. “No one else here. If the man – Xander if he was here,

men – injured and healthy – back to the bunker. They were attacked when we were gone –

Conor says, giving us a

give commands to the men. “That one

on the stairs. “Right now, let’s just figure out how the hell we’re getting me

Ella

Hank, going immediately wide. And suddenly, Henry’s ideas echo in my mind. That we can’t trust Hank. That he’s gotten too close to our family too quickly. That he’s an ambitious, eager man who has worked suspiciously hard to work to a place

he asking so much about my gift and how I could use it? Did he really really want to help Cora and her baby? Or

throwing a hand out towards the Priestess, Rafe still crying loudly in one of her arms while she

me then, shocked and confused. “What?” he

it!” I say, ignoring him, my eyes completely focused on the

beyond the normal cries of

As if –

intuits something

something is wrong

back to the Priestess who holds him, as I see now the vicious sneer on her face as she whips up the

of pain and then falls to the ground, his hands immediately going

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