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Metaking lives was not common.
And I was, at this point, beyond sick of it.
All of it.
“Tati!” I heard, just before I looked up to find aThornthat was not nearly as dead as we thought he was. He snatched me by the front of my jacket pulling me right up to him, and the same way I’d hesitated to shoot in Keira’s direction, my people had the same concern.
I couldn’t reach my own gun, which I’d tucked behind me to check on Keira, but Icouldstart swinging. But even my most solid punches meant nothing,
He was unmovable.
“I’ve got a message for you to deliver,” he said, in a tone that wasn’t exactly robotic, but still felt completely unnatural.
“What?” I asked. “You only know how to deliver messages in blood?”
“Orders are… orders,” he said, in that same strangled tone, as his grip on my jacket slipped. I met his gaze, and unlike the other one, his eyes weren’t empty.
They were scared and confused.
Dying.
“What’s the message?” I asked, shrugging out of his hold, which caused him to stumble backward a little.
“It’s for Onyx,” he choked out, as a stream of blood dribbled from his mouth, courtesy of a gunshot wound in his torso I had no idea how he could stand through. “He should… Onyx should… put a bullet in his head. Or we… we’ll do it. Until one of those… things… until that happens… we won’t stop coming for you. Foryou.”
I pulled my gun and pushed him away from me with it. “I know you won’t be able to deliver this, but you should still know. Anytime you come for thePredators, we’ll be ready for you.”
I didn’t even have to pull the trigger.
He collapsed on the ground, gurgling up blood, and though I should’ve taken some satisfaction in it… I couldn’t. Something in his adherence to orders, even while he was dying, even while he didn’t even know what the hell was going on… had struck me.
Renard Belrose was not human.
He was a monster.
He was the big bad wolf parents warned their kids about, in the flesh.
Him and his brother.
They got a hold of people, ofchildren, and stripped their humanity from them, using them as weapons, as tools to simply be used and abused.
That was what they’d done to Onyx, and now because he wasn’t being controlled anymore, they wanted to use me as bait to bring him back into line?
That was never going to happen.
“Unlock the stockroom in the back,” I told Justice and Kelendra. “Get whatever heat you need, and suit up, for anybody that comes up either road that isn’t us. In case they send reinforcements.”
I wanted to stay, but I couldn’t.
We had a clear protocol for shit like this, no matter how much I wanted to ignore it.
If I stayed, it meant I would need protection, which would pull resources from other places that needed it much more, so I did what I was supposed to do. I got in Gavin’s truck, so he could take me back to the fortress.
I kept trying to use my phone to get in touch withanybody,but quickly realized they must have used some type of technology to fry everybody’s devices. None of our phones were working.
Halfway back to the clubhouse, Gavin got out, took all the phones, and drove over them a couple times to destroy them. He was unwilling to take any chances about what those phones might be able to do now that they’d been exposed to something unknown.
I was gladhisbrain was working because mine surely wasn’t.
