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Leaving the three of them behind was still one of the hardest things I’d ever done. Locking the door behind us and pulling it shut, I did one thing I never did, hoped this wasn’t a colossal fucking mistake.
Chapter Fourteen
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Watching him leave was hard, but I would dare make him stay.
If it had been my brother I may not have even stopped to explain what I was doing. I stared at the monitor tapping my foot in place, waiting to see a sign that something had happened.
So far, all I could was a kid the same age as Lilith and Sam tied to a chair. There wasn’t any color but the picture was clear as day.
If Addy woke before they got back I wasn’t sure I’d be able to keep her in the house.
Seeing Ice had left his USB plugged into the computer I reached out and unplugged it, shoving it into my back pocket as a means to distract myself. I took a deep breath as denim pressed against sore ass from the movement.
When I glanced back the monitor my heart jumped. Maliki was cutting through Demon’s restraints, but the second he tore the duck tape from his mouth the camera cut off. One by one they blacked out until I could see nothing.
“Shit,” I breathed, tapping random keys to see if I could bring it back. “Come on.”
Hearing the echo of the front door opening and closing, I froze. Unless Maliki had superhuman speed that wasn’t possibly him. And the only way for it to be one of the others was if they left him behind.
Fuck.
I rushed from the room, scratching the cuts on my back as I ducked out of the splintered doorway. Creeping down the hall, I pulled out my Glock, reminding myself there were few bullets left.
I reached the kitchen just as a pair of Stags entered from the dining room. My confusion as to why it was them who were in this house and not the Cardinal didn’t have time to fully sink in.
We spotted one another instantly. I raised my gun at them they pointed a bow and arrow and a long rifle at me. My mind flashed to Annie, and the arrow that had caused the decimation of her life.
In my hesitation Trix turned around with a spatula in her hand. “Nyx? What the he—.”
The rifle swung her way and a shot rang out, waking Addy just as a bullet slammed into Trix’ forehead.
“No!” I screamed, rushing for her.
Blood splattered across the stainless steel fridge and landed in the skillet she had been in front of, sizzling and burning in the air. Her body fell back onto the stove, knocking the pan down as she fell. It landed on her right side up, burning her face.
Addy was yelling something but my mind had tuned her out. I snatched the pan off Trix not registering the way it burned my hands, and tossed it across the kitchen.
My carelessness was a rookie mistake. One I knew better than to make. Emotions weren’t supposed to impair judgment. Had I remembered this I’d have seen the end coming at the back of my head.
Everything hurt.
My head, my wrists, various parts on my body—any my mouth was like cotton.
Blinking, what transpired came rushing back, and suddenly I was wide awake. I jerked, swallowing a curse of pain when the cuffs around my wrist snagged.
Eyes darting around the room, which appeared to be the upper level of some kind of warehouse, I spotted Addy still knocked out on the other side, lying on a small mattress. She didn’t look hurt from what I could see.
Dim lighting lit the space and allowed me to better examine the cuffs around my wrists. They were locked around a metal drain that had rusted what looked like decades ago, but as I pulled and pulled nothing happened.
From the far right a door opened and closed. I tried again to break free to no avail. Worry for Addy trumped worry for myself. I wasn’t going to die like this.
I could feel it not being my time yet.
“Dammit,” I breathed, turning my body as much as I could to see who was coming.
The skull of a deer was enough to tell me this was another Stag. His shirt have away he was the one who hit me with the gun.
