Free Evans, Gabrielle - Hypnotic Healing [Fatefully Yours 6] (Siren Publishing LoveXtreme Forever ManLove) by Gabrielle Evans Page B

he mumbled.
    “Whatever you say.” Echo glanced around the room and watched as the other men shook themselves. “Everyone okay now?”
    “Yeah,” Hex answered slowly. “I really hate when that shit happens. I wanted to punch Vapre in the face for being such a douche, then I wanted to smack you upside the head for hurting him.” He shook his head and sighed. “Syn, what happened?”
    “I was thinking, not paying attention, and I let my emotions get away from me. I truly apologize.”
    “What happened?”
    “We’re having some issues with our dear mate,” Jinx said with a slight growl to his voice. “We will handle it.”
    Echo nodded. He knew exactly how insane Craze made him. He couldn’t imagine being mated to the man. Speaking of the asshole, where was he anyway?
    “He’ll be along,” Jinx answered Echo’s unspoken question. “Let’s focus on your mate, shall we?”
    “I guess that means you know something?” Echo eased past Vapre and plopped down on the sofa. “So, what do we have?”
    Jinx extracted a folded piece of paper from his pocket and passed it to Hex. “This is a list of everyone invited to the party. At the bottom, there are four names of attendees without invitations. Next to those names are descriptions. I spoke with everyone that attended the festivities. If one of these people didn’t take Echo, they weren’t at the party.”
    “You remember all this?” Hex asked in awe. “How?”
    “Jinx has a photographic memory,” Syn said proudly.
    “Yes, I know you said that…” Hex trailed off as he studied the names on the sheet of paper. He walked around the sofa and eased down beside Echo. “Look at these descriptions and tell me if any of them sound like the man that took you.”
    Reading quickly, Echo shook his head and passed the paper back. “The guy that took me was at least your size, if not bigger. His hand almost covered my entire face. He was wearing a black, leather coat and dark, steel-toed boots. That’s all I saw of him, though.”
    “Did he say anything?”
    Echo could see Hex shaking with the effort to hold back his fury. Moving closer, he molded himself to the alpha’s side and stroked his chest to calm him. It seemed to be working when Hex’s arm went around his shoulders and his cheek rested on top of Echo’s head.
    “Just what you’d expect from a kidnapper. He told me to be quiet or he’d kill me.” Hex tensed and his chest rumbled. Echo just continued to rub his palm over the demon’s chest. “It was a bunch of bullshit if you ask me. If he really wanted to kill me, he wouldn’t have carried me off into the woods. He would have done it right there on the deck and left.”
    “So, you didn’t know he was a vampire?” Vapre didn’t sound accusatory—merely curious.
    “Other than Syn and Jinx, I’ve never met one.” Echo paused and scrunched his eyebrows together. “Well, that I know of, anyway. I guess I could have, huh? I mean, I knew Gage for a while, but I never would have guessed he was a werewolf.”
    Gage’s chuckle reached his ears, and Echo looked over his shoulder to see the ex-guard enter the room with his mates. “There were three vampires at the compound with you, and you were in contact with them several times.”
    “Well, see? There ya go.” Echo waved his hand around in dismissal. Before Christmas, he’d be losing his mind over the information. Now, he was the information. Fan-fucking-tastic.
    “Okay, we’ll come back to this.” Hex folded the paper and handed it over to Syx. “Hold on to that.”
    “Onyx didn’t take any of the vehicles,” Gage said slowly. “He couldn’t have gotten very far in the last hour. If we split up, we could probably find him before sunrise.”
    Echo nodded eagerly. He liked that plan. “Let’s do it.”
    “Hold up.” Hex kissed Echo’s temple quickly. “Don’t you have some questions for Syn and Jinx?”
    Echo shook his head. “They can wait. I want to find Onyx. I am what I