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Relief pounded through me when AJ turned, his arm swinging to where that deep, menacing voice had come from.
Before he had the chance to aim or even shoot blindly, his guttural roar tore through the night air when a knife sunk into his wrist. His hand flexed instinctively, the gun slowly falling from his fingers.
AJ was biting out clipped curses, his hand on my neck so tight I was sure he was trying to snap it. But I’d never felt safer or more eager to be met with evil.
Because the demon emerging from the shadows was mine.
Kieran walked toward us with deliberate steps, his gaze never leaving AJ.
“He’ll slit your throat and bleed you dry,” he mumbled, his voice excited in a way that sent a chill racing up my spine.
When he was only a few steps from us, I could see the bloodied knives in his hands. His eyes were lifeless and his grin was so, so cruel.
I’d never seen anything so terrifying or fascinating.
“That girl you’re touching is mine.”
“She’s a whore,” AJ spat. “She belongs to everyone. And tonight, she’s mine.”
Kieran moved so fast I didn’t know anything had happened until AJ cried out again and staggered back, taking me with him.
When he caught his footing and I slammed into his chest, I felt the hilt of another knife pressing against my shoulder before he could shove me away.
I stumbled, the ability to catch myself seeming to escape me until Kieran grabbed my arm and steadied me, and then I turned to face the man who’d created every one of my nightmares.
He wrenched the knife from his shoulder, his seething stare on Kieran as he gripped it in his good hand like he was preparing for war.
He wouldn’t win.
“Make it go away,” I said on a breath.
“She owes me money,” AJ seethed, swiping the knife in my direction when Kieran began advancing on him.
Kieran’s head tilted and a harsh laugh left him. “I know what you think she owes you.” He moved one of the knives into his right hand so there was one in each as he stalked forward. “You like drugging and raping girls to control them? Tell me . . . does it make you feel invincible?”
A knife hit AJ’s chest. He swayed, his mouth falling open in silent agony.
“Does it make you feel like a man?” Kieran demanded.
When AJ sluggishly reached for the knife sticking from his chest, Kieran snapped his wrist, letting his last blade fly into AJ’s throat.
“Answer me.”
A choking noise came from AJ, looking stunned and panicked before he dropped to his knees.
I’d waited a lifetime for this.
I’d dreamed of watching him be crushed by the evil he’d inflicted on me.
As much as I wanted his life to end, I wanted this moment to last.
There was no mercy for men who aspired to be monsters.
Kieran took his time closing the distance between them, snatching the knife AJ still held loosely in his hand as he dropped to a crouch in front of him.
“I want to kill you for every time you ever touched her,” he said in a dangerously low tone as he gripped AJ’s hair and tilted his head back. “Once will have to do.”
As soon as the words reached my ears, Kieran tore the knife from AJ’s throat in a slashing motion and let him fall to the ground.
