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“I KILLED HER!” I screamed. “I KILLED THAT FUCKING BITCH!”
He jerked as though I’d slapped him and those cold eyes grew colder, pinching at the edges until they creased.
“I caved her head in.” I sucked in cold air. “Until there was nothing left but a mess. But that’s nothing compared to what London will do to you.” I looked at my tormentor, in front of me with that thing in his hand. “That’s nothing compared to what he’ll do to all of you. Even if you kill me…even if he never finds my body, he’ll kill you all. He’ll kill and kill and kill. He’ll be the shadow you’ll never see coming. He’ll become wrath.”
Hale swallowed hard with those words.
And I smiled.
It wouldn’t matter how many men Hale surrounded himself with.
They still wouldn’t stand a chance.
Blood dripped down my face from the fresh gash on my head, the warmth raced along my cheek and over my lips as I smiled. “He’ll be seeing you, motherfucker. Real fucking soon.”
TWELVE
London
“Aren’t you coming?”
I stared straight ahead, gripping the steering wheel of Carven’s Explorer, trying to keep the rage out of my voice. “No, pet. You go on inside with Carven.”
He’d slammed the door behind him and stormed toward the back door of the house. If I stayed, it’d be bad. If I left, it’d be bad. Either way, this went down, it wouldn’t be good, not after what we’d just witnessed. It was better if I left them. It was better if he…
Go to the Son, Vivienne.
The words were on the tip of my tongue as I turned and met her gaze. Wide, unblinking eyes stared back at me. Flashes followed, like flickers of a camera. Hands reaching for me. Blood…so much blood. I pulled away from the memory and from her, shifting my focus to the street. “There are things I need to tend to.”
“Tonight?”
There was need in her tone.
Need to be around me.
Need for me to be strong.
But I didn’t just want to be strong. I wanted to be lethal. “He needs you, Vivienne,” I said, hating how cold I sounded.
She straightened as she stood outside the car. “Sure,” she muttered before shoving the door closed and striding away.
You. Idiot.
I winced at the words. Still, they didn’t stop me shoving the car into gear and slamming down on the accelerator. They didn’t stop me from pulling up my phone to an address on the screen. The address of the pain in the ass that’d refused to give me what I wanted before…now, he would.
I drove through the city, my mind numb, frozen on the horror we’d just seen.
All of those Daughters…
All of those…
I jerked my mind away, glanced at the address on my phone, and turned down a street that just looked sad. Potholes eroded the pavement. Clapped out, rusted cars parked nose to nose along the street. Townhouses that were either boarded-up or had bars on the windows. I glanced at the street numbers and pulled the four-wheel drive over to the side of the road. Headlights flared further behind me. I lifted my gaze to the rear-view mirror and watched a car creep past the turnoff and keep going.
The two-story townhouses were in darkness. I glanced at the clock, finding it close to midnight. Hours it’d been…just hours since we’d stumbled from The Order carrying nothing more than the weight of all those deaths on our shoulders.
My shoulders, you mean?
Because no matter how you looked at it. This was all my fault.
