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All this destructive and malicious energy swirling around me and building up with every day that went by where we had to bide our time before we struck at our enemies needed an outlet.
And if it wasn’t going to be some sadistic, no-holds-barred fucking, it was going to be this.
Three more days of healing before Lance arrived with Aurora would give me enough time to be more physically functional again, and the beast would do the rest.
I’d played it down to Jonah and Caleb when it came to my position on Lance. With me in this dangerous state, if they believed I meant him ill will, they’d make it their mission to become obstacles in my path to him, which risked them getting hurt as collateral damage, because I wouldn’t fucking stop.
This way, they’d never see it coming before it was too late.
And neither would Revenant.
Punishment is coming, you traitorous cunt.
16
~Aurora~
“Stop!”
I pulled up short at my dad’s sharp command.
He was there in the next second, throwing his arm out in front of me as an extra precaution.
“What are you—”
“There,” he said, gesturing with his free hand at a barely-perceptible wire.
I followed his movement as he swept his arm along until he was then pointing at a silver peg-like object attached to the wire.
“Trip wires?” I asked.
“Explosives.”
“We can barely see that one, how are we going to navigate the next half a mile to the house without triggering one?”
“They’re set at ten-foot intervals, the wires crisscrossing precisely north and south, east and west and—”
“How do you know that?”
“Because this is my setup.” He pulled his backpack off and put it down beside him, his eyes narrowed in concentration, studying the area. “Scourge is here.”
“You mean, you taught this to him?”
“I did.”
“Well, he broke Asher out, so it stands to reason that he’d still be around.”
“No. Not for him it doesn’t. He’s a wanted man. Just below me on the Infidels’ most-wanted list.”
“The way I understood it and what he relayed to me when I trained with him was that he was believed to be dead.”
He screwed up his face. When he’d found out about the training, he hadn’t been happy, to say the least. He knew Scourge, he knew how brutal his training was. Plus, he was blaming that and the guys for setting me on a dark path. He just couldn’t see me as a grown, capable woman who made her own choices. In his mind, other people had to be responsible.
“Dad?” I pushed.
He blinked and told me, “He was, but just before I went to ground, it was discovered that he was alive.” He eyed me. “Before you ask, no, Asher doesn’t know about that. He wouldn’t react well to it.”
“I get that. He’s very intense about Aaron’s safety.”
