Mikal (Second Wave Book 3) by Mikayla Lane Read Free Book Online

the doctor leaned back as far as he could to get away from her.
    “This was all a trap? You knew I’d come for them?” she asked, her voice cold and deadly.
    Dr. Mussberger shook his head vehemently.
    “No! No! I . . .” Harold sputtered.
    Mikal took another step closer to the doctor and kneeled down so that they were eye level, though he still kept his distance from the female so he wouldn’t frighten her.
    We both need our wits about us right now, he thought.
    “Are they watching all of this?” Mikal asked.
    The panic that overcame the doctor could be felt pulsing in the air around them, and Alpha Two looked worriedly at the dark stranger. Unsure why she would do so, she quickly looked away.
    It must be that he is a male of our kind. I’m used to listening to and following Alpha One, she thought, trying to explain to herself why she would look to a stranger for help-especially one that she knew nothing about and couldn’t trust.
    Mikal, using the same energy path in his mind that he’d used to find her, spoke to her mind.
    “It is all a trap. Until now, they didn’t know you were coming for your sisters. They assumed you were coming for the doctors and guards. If we frighten them, they will kill your sisters. If we stay, they could catch us. Whatever you are going to do, you need to decide quickly. I will watch your back,” he said, keeping his energy calm and even.
    Alpha Two tried to hide her shock that the stranger had been able to breech her mental barriers and speak to her. Only Alpha One or her sisters had ever been able to do that, and it was rattling her confidence as much as the new turn of events.
    She tried to push her emotions aside and concentrate on what to do and how to do it now that they knew she was coming. She was a fool. She should have known that they’d be watching.
    The sick bastards watched everything , she thought.
    Mikal saw her struggling with her decision and could feel the wavering of her strength and conviction. The first scared look she gave him when she found out they were watching told him what he needed to do next.
    Mikal stood, walked behind the doctor’s chair, and looked at the female. His eyes held hers as he spoke.
    “If you want to see your doctor alive again, you’ll not harm her sisters,” he said to the room, knowing that others were listening.
    With a wave of Mikal’s hand, a huge gust of wind blew through the bedroom door, shattering the window outward behind the female. She turned to look at the window, and when she turned back the dark stranger and the doctor were gone.
    “Follow my energy. And hurry, before they catch you,” Mikal said in her mind.
    Alpha Two didn’t even think about it. She immediately dissolved into air and followed the strange energy path in her mind that she hadn’t known was there before. She was even more stunned and frightened when she followed him directly to her abandoned cabin in the woods, her main hiding spot where she’d planned to bring her sisters.
    She landed in the small clearing and stormed into the open door. She immediately noticed the stranger had lit the lantern and tied the doctor to a chair. Before she could say anything he turned to her and spoke.
    “We need to find out if he has a chip or tracking device on him or in him somewhere, or keeping him will be too dangerous. As far as how I got here, I took your advice and followed the colored strands in my mind, and they led me to you. I have no idea why, but we don’t have time to figure it out now. We need to deal with him,” he said, motioning to the doctor. 
    Alpha Two was only a little surprised that he’d found the same strands that she had just used in her own mind that allowed her to follow him. She knew the clock was ticking on her sisters’ lives, and she would have to take a chance on the stranger in order to try and salvage any part of her mission to save them.
    “They had an explosive charge in my neck, near my jugular. We should probably start