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The old bastard laughed before wrapping his arm around Sienna’s shoulders. “Come on, sugar. You can blow me before we head out.”
She giggled like the damned cheerleader she had been in school.
Noah moved to Sabella. Knees bending, he hunched down in front of her and cupped her cheeks. Tears filled her eyes. And for just a second Noah allowed himself to feel.
He went past the rage that threatened to overwhelm his control. He went past the murderous fury at the thought of how frightened she was. And there, tucked into his soul, was the love he had felt for Sabella since the moment he had seen her.
She had strode into his garage, her smile flashing in the sunlight, her eyes mysterious and watchful. He’d had eyes for no other woman since that day.
He leaned close, his forehead against hers, and smiled back at her confidently.
“They’ll die,” he promised her, every one one of them.
Her lips trembled and more tears rolled down her cheeks.
“Be ready.” He kept his voice low, for her ears only. “Stay low. Don’t anger them.”
She nodded jerkily, her eyes locked on his, fear, fear for him, filling them.
“It’s going to be okay, baby.”
She nodded again and when her lips trembled this time, he wanted to kiss them. He wanted to cover them, to ease her past that fear for just a moment. It was a need he couldn’t afford. Kissing Sabella would strip him down to that final, darkened core where hunger pulsed in an eternal need. Just for her.
“Noah—” He put his finger over her lips.
“Nothing will happen to you. I swear it on what little is left of my soul, Sabella. Nothing will happen to you.”
“Rory?”
“Safe.”
She nodded again.
Noah smoothed a tear from beneath her eye then brought his thumb to his lips and let the salty taste of her pain and her fear harden the icy core of rage.
“Who hit you?” He wanted to know who to kill first.
“Sienna.”
And he nodded. He touched her lips with his thumb, touched her hair then drew back slowly as Mike stepped back into the room.
He rose to his feet, the sound of her muffled sob raking over the ice inside him. Hardening it. Colder. Icier. There was no flame. Nothing hot or fierce burning inside him. This was death.
He turned back to Mike.
“So, are we gonna go play, or are you too busy getting blown next?”
Mike’s eyes narrowed before his gaze flicked to Sabella. “When you die, I’m going to stretch her out and come in her mouth. She’ll die swallowing me.”
r /> Noah grunted. “Let’s cut the shit here, Conrad. Let’s get moving.”
He headed to the entrance. He left Sabella behind him. For now. Just for now. And the look he gave Mike was a promise. He would be one of the first to die.
Killing him would be incredibly easy. He’d known that when he first arrived back and saw the drunken abuse the other man had heaped on her. He had trusted his family, his friends, to watch out for the woman who was his life.
As they entered the narrow entrance Noah watched as Gaylen Patrick moved from deeper inside the cavern. His face was flushed. Expression smug.
“Doesn’t take you long to blow, does it?” he observed mockingly.
