#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.

my hands on his shoulders, but he works to swat

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

I hold his eyes and shake my head. “Let me go, Dominic,” I say, shaking my head. “You’re in,” I hesitate, but when I look at the blood seeping from his wounds I

I sigh, knowing

giving a little shrug and working to put my arm beneath my brother’s shoulder to help him up. “But if you fall to pieces

panting to his feet, but I

Conor reports, looking anxiously towards my brother. “No one else here. If the man – Xander if he was here, he’s not

But then I rethink the command. “Actually – get the cars close. We need transport, now. You take all the men – injured and healthy – back to the bunker. They were attacked when we were gone – they’ll need reinforcements.

giving us a quick

commands to the men. “That one needs a promotion,” I murmur to

“Right now, let’s just figure out

Ella

That he’s gotten too close to our family too quickly.

and how I could use it? Did he

while she holds one of the

then, shocked and confused. “What?” he

him, my eyes completely focused on the Priestess before me. “Don’t

I go pale as Rafe begins to scream in her arms – a noise beyond the normal cries of a disgruntled baby who wants his

As if –

Rafe himself intuits something

is

horror as I shift my eyes away from my baby and back to the Priestess who holds him, as I see now the vicious sneer on her face as she whips up the hand which is not holding Rafe and cracks the jug still held in her fingers

cry of pain and then falls to the ground,

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