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The more bodies drop, the more I’m lost in adrenaline until nothing is left but me and the blood caking my skin. Each kill brings me closer to that high, closer to insanity.
But when I look at my hands, the bodies begin to disappear in the dark of the night, and at the end of the hallway, a bed appears.
In it are two people, one crying, softly pleading for help, while the other bounces on top.
And the horror that settles in my stomach is too much to take.
BANG!
Blood stains the sheets.
The intense scream that follows rings in my ear.
Dark eyes boring a hole into my skull, dragging my soul out with it until nothing is left but a hollow mess of me.
Eyes I recognize.
Hands that feel familiar.
“It’s gonna be okay,” the voice says.
But all I hear is the ringing of the gunshot like a memory being seared into my brain.
Screaming, I awaken to someone lying beside me. I grasp the nearest knife I can find on the bedside table and roll on top of the person, pushing the knife under their neck. Hands raised, completely at my mercy. But it isn’t until my eyes find his that I realize what I’m doing.
“Lana, it’s me,” Kai says.
It takes me a while to calm the panic raging through my heart.
“Where am I?” I mutter.
The last thing I remember, I was in the hallway in my towel.
I look down, but the towel is gone. I’m completely naked, sitting on top of him.
“It was wet, so I had to take it off to make you warm again,” he says. “I haven’t touched you. I was just watching over you.”
I shiver in place from the cold draft passing by my nipples.
The last thing I know is that I was arguing with my brother, and he’d just left when I … collapsed onto the floor.
“You’re in my room now. You’re safe,” he says. His hand reaches for my face, and he caresses my cheek so gently I almost break under his touch. “I’m not here to hurt you.”
“I …” I mutter, slowly retracting the knife.
“You were dreaming again … weren’t you?”
I nod and roll off him, pulling my knees up to my chin as I sit in the bed. “The nightmares are intensifying.”
“Nightmares … about your mother?” he asks.
I swallow away my pride and nod.
He sits up too, intently listening to me even though I just held a knife to his throat.
“They’ve never been this bad before,” I say, sniffing. “Usually the killing keeps them at bay.”
“So revenge on predators wasn’t your only reason,” he says.
