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“You shouldn’t have been such a bitch to my best friend.”
The resulting plume of red splattered across the wall. I winced at the fact some splattered on Jenna’s bedspread even as I leapt forward. She opened her mouth to scream, but she couldn’t—I had slashed through her airway. I watched her crumple to the ground, her eyes still wide, her body twitching and spasming. She clutched her throat, but there was no way for her to hold back the blood that flowed down her breasts and soaked her shirt, the carpet.
Cain came in behind me and knelt with the machine to burn off her fingerprints. The scent of burning filled the air, and it made me crinkle my nose. I got up and took one of the bottles of body spray—Sweet Pea—and sprayed it around the room.
Cain coughed. “Was that necessary?”
“Leave it to you to prefer the smell of death and depravity to a light floral scent.”
Then the door opened again.
Jenna stood there, frozen in the door for a second, taking in the horrifying scene.
“Good,” Cain said, getting up and closing the door. “I need to scan your fingerprints so I can replace hers with your own.”
“What’s happening? “Jenna asked, wide-eyed.
“The Demon ordered me to kill you to save Stellan,” I said. “Obviously, I’m not going to do that.”
“Obviously,” Jenna said, still wide eyed as if that weren’t obvious at all. “Is this where I help you bury the body?”
“I love the sentiment,” I said. “But we’re leaving this body right here.”
Jenna nodded. She looked wide eyed at the carnage decorating her room. “Thanks for not killing me, Aurora.”
“You’re my best friend,” I said.
“Fingerprints,” Cain said impatiently.
I raised an eyebrow and a finger at him in admonishment. “Watch how you talk to her. You’ve already seen what I do if someone hurts my best friend.”
Cain just grinned, unaffected, and looked down at the body I was beginning to cut into. She had cooled into death while we were talking. “I can’t wait to see what you do when someone hurtsme.”
“Never going to happen,” I said quickly.
I couldn’t lose Cain too.
21
AURORA
It had been two weeks of moving locations, and I was sick of it. I had never been a wait and see kind of girl, and the lack of inaction was slowly driving me insane.
Besides the daily pictures I got of Paxton, Remington, and Stellan's tortured bodies, the Demon hadn't come up with any new requests since the order to kill Jenna. Cain had sent her to a oceanside resort under an alias until we got rid of the Demon, but we’d had to go radio silent with her to keep the fact she was alive a secret.
I missed her.
I missed my men.
The wait was getting to Cain as well. When we weren't trying to figure out clues to the Demon and Alexander's locations, Cain was fucking me on every surface he could find, like the only outlet that prevented him from going crazy, was my body.
We were at a huge cabin in the woods for the next two days, rented under one of Cain's many aliases. There were too many windows in the house though, and I found myself walking around, staring out of them constantly, searching the surrounding woods for threats.
Currently we were seated on the couch in front of the television. It was on the local news channel, but neither of us were paying attention. Cain was searching the dark web chat rooms for news of the Demon’s movements, and I was searching on my own computer for any mysterious deaths in the area. We'd already spent a few hours looking for any sign of Alexander earlier.
After another couple minutes, I slammed my computer shut and stood up.
"Where are you going?" Cain immediately asked. It didn't annoy me, him monitoring my every movement. I was doing the same thing to him. I was too afraid of him disappearing on me to go very far.
