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Viggo shuffles on the floor, as if trying to escape me, and I laugh mockingly. “You’re going nowhere. Where the fuck you gonna go?” I taunt, repeating the very words he said to me only minutes ago.
A whine leaves his throat, and I smile toward the camera as I raise the axe into the air with ease. Bringing it down on his ankle, my pupils flare at the tortured, muffled scream of the sick fuck that haunted our dreams.
“In complete and utter devotion,” I mumble while thinking of Tia.
RAGE
Wild unrestrained fury builds like a hurricane inside me, an uncontrollable force fixated on becoming unleashed at those who threaten to harm us.
Threaten to harm my girl.
My daughter.
Lucas.
Our family.
A touch of warmth spreads through me, and I glance down at Thalia’s small hand resting on my thigh. The tension in the car is multiplying by the minute as we race toward our old foster home. A place known only for pain.
“Try to stay in control, Jace.” Her soft-spoken words send a small flash of guilt through me as my temple throbs and my fists clench and unclench with the need to expel my demons.
“I can’t,” I say through clenched teeth.
She exhales as if dejected, and I hate the disappointment behind her action, the disappointment in me.
“I’m trying,” I bite out.
I turn my head from staring out of the front window to face her, and instantly, my resolve weakens. “I’ll try harder,” I add, to which she nods, then I turn back toward the familiar streets.
Cole’s leg bounces uncontrollably from the passenger seat, and he switches between scrubbing his hand over his head with a deep sigh and chewing on his fingernails. The anxiety radiating from him in waves, threatening to drown us all.
“We’re not far, five minutes out.” Finn motions toward the satnav in what is meant to be a reassuring comment, but I know better than him, of course. I know we are three minutes out.
As a child, I knew the time it took to walk, run, and cycle back to the house before Thalia to save her from Martin’s wrath. As a teenager and adult, I knew the time it took to drive to the house that caused me the heartbreak in a desperate need to be with her.
So, as we turn down the next street, I know we are one minute out to saving my brother, not two like the satnav predicts.
“When we get there, I’ll check the place out first.” Finn glances in the rearview mirror, no doubt attempting to instruct me. But he can go fuck his plans, all bets are off.
I’ll do whatever it takes to get my brother back.
I’m about to slay our nightmares once and for all.
Chapter
Twenty-Six
TIA
Isqueeze my eyes closed, attempting to block out the memories of the last time I was on this very street.
At sixteen years old, I was rescued by police, transferred into social services, then moved into a foster placement with a new identity.
It pained me to be detached from Jace, but for me and my baby to live without fear of being discovered, I had no choice.
During my police interviews, I learned that Martin was from a prominent family with access to wealth. This shocked me, as looking at the guy you never would have guessed it.
Knowing what I know now, that Mrs. Lancaster is his biological mother, I can only imagine she kept him a secret, that his existence was not one she shouted about, hence her reason to have her date of birth changed on government documents.
