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I crack open an eye and see Hail cradling a despondent Sky in his arms.
“No.” My voice is hoarse from screaming and my throat is dry with thirst. “Don’t touch her.”
Hail looks up at me through his red swollen eyes and I wince at the pure agony there.
“I won’t hurt her.” He shakes his head. “I’m going to get you two out of here.”
He sets her down and I exhale with relief when I hear her moan. He’s going to get us out of here? What the fuck does he mean by that? He comes to stand in front of me and I bare my teeth at him, hissing when his hands land on my hips.
“You killed her aunt.” I bare my teeth.
“I did, there was no choice.” He doesn’t bother to deny it. “That’s how I first saw Sky.”
“You are all sick.”
“He marked you,” his fingers hover over the pentagram on my stomach, “you were sent to save him.”
I try to twist away from the heat of his body but the searing pain in my shoulders makes me pause and whimper.
“I know.” He whispers, “I’m just going to lift you down, okay?”
Finally, I nod and his hands land back on my hips. The second my bound hands come away from the hook, they fall against his shoulder, and I cry out from the blood rushing back through them.
“I grabbed you guys some clothes and your passports, but that was all I could get. You have five minutes to pull yourselves together and follow me out of here.” He opens a water bottle and pours some into each of our mouths. ”Kenny is expecting to witness a double sacrifice in thirty minutes.”
“Double sacrifice?” I croak out even though I know exactly what he means.
“We never were going to kill you girls, they were our targets, but you messed it up and I’m sorry they had to do this to you both, there just was no other way. There are bigger players in all of this.” Hail continues and I still don’t have a fucking clue what he’s talking about. “Kenny needs to believe you escaped.”
“Where’s Kenny’s phone?” I snarl. “He has a video of what happened to us and I want it.”
“That video was taken to appease the elders. I need you to understand, we are taking down an organization one dark parish at a time. It was necessary that Kenny sent that video.”
“There’s no way he’ll believe we escaped, not in our conditions.” I tell him.
“He’ll have no choice.” He shrugs.
Sky hasn’t said much and she has yet to look at me, does she blame me? Hail begins to help her get dressed and she cries out when her t-shirt rolls down over her back. Yeah, I’m not looking forward to that.
I try to stand but end up stumbling against the wall and my back scrapes against the cinder blocks. I grind my teeth through the pain and stagger back to where Hail is helping Sky to stand.
“You have to leave now.” He’s looking at me but his arms are around Sky. “Can you walk?”
“Yes.” I hold back a cry when I pull a shirt over my head. “Where’s Raiden?”
I can run out of here if it means we don’t die, but I need to see him first, and I need to watch as life leaves his eyes. I pull off the bloodied skirt and it lands just under the hook I was hanging from. I pull on my pants, almost heaving from the pain between my legs, and steady myself on the wall.
“I would pray that you never see him again, not until the next life.” He looks pointedly at the carving under my shirt, “there’s food on the plane.” Hail grabs my hand. “You need to leave now.”
He pulls us along and I notice a bag hanging from his shoulder, right beside a bandage. I smile to myself knowing I inflicted some damage at least and I can hold on to that for the rest of my life.
The stairs are the worst part and the pain radiating from between my thighs screams as I take one step at a time. Sky is hanging from Hail’s other arm and I pray she will be able to move on her own because I don’t think I can support her, too.
Hail leads us out a back door and I see a blacked-out sedan idling there.
“Can you take her to the car?” He asks and begins to hand Sky over.
I grunt as I take her weight and she moans into my neck. Fuck, she’s small but the bitch is dense. A man jumps out of the driver’s side and opens the back door.
