Free Deciding Her Faete (Beyond the Veil Book 2) by Sarah Marsh, Elena Kincaid, Maia Dylan

and despite his recent actions, it was something he took great pride in. “No, this could be a trap. Just some magical hallucination Kheelan and his cronies have cooked up. We’ll go alone, and if we find her, bring her back safe and sound.”
    “And if we find Kheelan?” Jason’s voice had dropped to a deadly octave.
    Donovan stopped and turned in the corridor to look his brother in the eye. “Then you get to rip out his heart, and hold it in front of him while it is still beating.”
    For the first time since he arrived in this realm, Donovan saw Jason smile. Sure it was bloodthirsty and filled with anticipation at the painful death of his tormentor, but it was a smile nonetheless.
     

Chapter Ten
     
    “Heal me,” Kheelan ordered her again.
    “No!” April spat.
    “Hurt her again,” Kheelan commanded the other sadistic fuck, his sidekick, Frederych.
    Not for the first time in the two weeks she’d been here, April felt her body convulse as if she were having a seizure. Frederych loomed over her with his hands—which never quite touched her body—as they roamed over her chest, then her belly, all the way down to her legs before coming back up again. At first, she would feel a mildly uncomfortable pulling sensation, but then it always escalated to something excruciatingly painful, as if his hands were magnets and her organs, her veins, her blood … her magic, were all being drawn out of her body. At this point, her body would shake and buck uncontrollably and she would let out a blood-curdling scream, or at least she did for the first week. After that, she simply gritted her teeth and bore it, not wanting to give either of them the satisfaction.
    At the highest peak of her pain, when she thought for sure that every internal part of her would be sucked out, twisting her insides out, a blue light would rise out of her and snap everything back into its place, throwing Frederych back against the wall. Kheelan had wisely learned to safeguard himself from this after the first time it happened and he, too, had been thrown.
    “Heal me,” Kheelan demanded again from the farthest corner of the room.
    April was still reeling from the pain of having her insides settle back to normal when a maniacal laugh escaped her.
    “What’s so funny, bitch?”
    “You’re not looking so good there, Kheels,” April observed.
    He’d been getting progressively worse every day since she’d been taken. His goon had managed to patch up the gaping hole in his stomach when they first brought her to this … secret lair—that was the best description she could come up with for the hovel they had brought her to. They had blindfolded and gagged her after entering the human realm and shoved her back into the same limo that had brought her and Jason to the woods the night all this horror had begun. At least it smelled like the same car, all old cigarette smoke and spilled alcohol.
    April had been getting so sensitive to scent in the last couple of days. Things that she had never noticed before were suddenly logging in her memory.
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    Kheelan had torn off the blindfold and gag when they arrived at some strange looking cliff with three stones. Her demands about knowing what happened to her mates had fallen on deaf ears as Kheelan, Frederych, and two other guards had escorted her further up the mountain by foot until they reached a crevice in a cliff.
    One of the goons had drawn a few symbols at the entrance before they all stepped in, and once again, just like when she had entered the Veil, April had felt a wave of nausea sweep over her. They must have entered another one of those portals, she figured.
    She found herself in what she could only describe as a mad scientist’s lab with otherworldly-looking machines and test tubes of various sizes filled with different colored liquids.
    Kheelan had marched her straight into yet another cell with a hospital looking bed in the middle of the room. They had strapped her down and immediately