AllFreeNovel
Share Us
"I'm going to go run a few miles on the treadmill, try to get this energy out," I responded.
He nodded, his face softening as he took me in.
Cain opened his mouth, and I knew what he was going to say; it was the same promise he'd been giving me, one where he swore to get the others back for me.
Right now, I didn't want to hear it.
I held up my hand, stopping his words. "I’m okay. I just need to let off some steam."
He closed his mouth and nodded, forcing his gaze back to his computer.
I felt a little guilty that I couldn't be as cool and collected as the situation called for, but every bloodied photograph the Demon sent made me feel more and more helpless.
Once I got to the exercise room, I popped in my headphones and started to run. I didn't know the name of the song I was listening to, but the singer’s screeching voice helped drown out my dark thoughts.
I'd been going for about thirty minutes when a loud bang sounded down the hall, causing me to trip on the treadmill in my surprise. I caught myself right before I face planted and jumped off, not even bothering to turn it off as I ran down the hall. "Cain?" I called out, his name getting caught in my throat as I turned the corner and ran right into him.
He pushed me against the wall, his hand covering my mouth.
"Alexander's here," he murmured as I heard another bang. "This way." He led me down a series of hallways. When I had said cabin, I had of course meant mansion cabin. And although Cain did enjoy his finery, the reason we both had liked this place so much was that it was easy to get lost in. There were multiple staircases leading to the second floor and the basement, and many of the rooms were interconnected by bathrooms so we could travel between them easily.
We made our way down the back staircase, into the basement. It was a better choice than the upstairs since it had two walk out entrances to the woods that surrounded the place. Crouching low to the ground, we made our way across to one of the sliding glass doors, and plastered ourselves against the wall next to it. Cain peeked his head out to stare through the glass into the backyard. There were no footsteps above us yet, but any minute now, that would change. The owner of the property had a big thing for security. When Cain had been looking into the place, the listing had talked about a security film that made the glass windows and doors extremely tough to break. I wasn't sure how strong the film on the glass really was, but at least it was giving us a little time to prepare ourselves.
Another bang sounded upstairs.
"I don't see anyone out this way, but they could be hiding in the woods,” whispered Cain. I nodded, thinking of the way the Demon’s worshippers had popped out of the woods at the cemetery like bunnies.
I was sure that Alexander had brought reinforcements with him as well.
Cain and I had set up a weapons room in one of the empty bedrooms in the basement. We moved away from the door and headed towards the room just as we finally heard the sound of glass breaking and footsteps above us.
"Are you ready for this?" Cain asked as we grabbed weapons. I sheathed several knives on my thighs, my waist, and my arms, holstering three guns around my waist just for good measure.
"Yep," I said, popping my lips, his gaze growing hungry as he took in the sight of me.
"Like what you see?" I teased as I admired him right back, watching as he strapped an assortment of weapons all over him, including a few grenades.
He just winked at me.
The sound of more footsteps above us had my heart hammering in my chest. Cain locked up the cabinets where the weapons were stored and turned towards me.
"Today's the day it ends," he said simply, and I nodded.
Today was the fucking day.
"Oh, Cain," I heard Alexander call out mockingly from the first floor. "Daddy's home."
Cain’s face curled up in disgust. "I always hated that word," he said as we moved through the bathroom that connected this room to another, right as footsteps sounded on the stairs down the hall.
"You don't hate it when I call you that," I murmured.
He sighed impatiently. "I really don't have time to fuck you right now, Aurora. And I don't really want to kill my father with an erection."
I snickered. It felt weird. How messed up our relationship was with all the parental units in this group. Even Stellan, with his relatively normal mother, had loads of issues with her since Sophia's death.
I quickly turned my thoughts down another path, because that was not going to be helpful thinking about her right now.
"Cain," an unfamiliar voice called out. "Come out, come out, wherever you are."
