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“Well?” Crow demanded.
My fingers clenched on the steering wheel. I was a human. A highly trained human, yes, but at a disadvantage when fighting supernaturals like Crow. I’d have just one chance to do this.
I reached into the door pocket, palmed the dagger and drove it into Crow’s heart in a single fast move. I didn’t even draw a breath so as not to tip her off.
I hit my target dead-on. Crow’s mouth formed a shocked ‘O.’
I heaved a breath. “I’m sorry. I really am.”
Her hand went to the blade’s handle, trying but failing to remove it. “Why?” she croaked.
I looked at her. There were so many things I could say. That Crow had become a zealot who’d lost her moral compass. That I was almost certain she was working on her own, that the BOD hadn’t approved Reaper’s death sentence. That I was sick of the lies and the killing and wanted out.
In the end, all I said was, “Reaper looked so happy.”
Crow’s eyes glazed over. Smoke from her burning body filled the van.
I climbed out of the van and went to her side. Opening the door, I gathered her into my arms and carried her into the woods, where I laid her on the newly-fallen leaves. She’d be ashes within minutes.
I pulled off the false belly and threw it deeper into the woods. The van I left where it was and hiked up the hill to where I’d hidden my motorcycle in the trees.
The last thing I saw were the lights of the Kral mansion in the rearview mirror.
“You’re welcome,” I told Reaper, and aimed my bike for I-95.
