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The decision I’d wanted to avoid flared cruelly in their drunken eyes.
And I knew.
Just like I’d known what Ethan had done to Neri, I knew what would happen tonight.
I would die defending her.
I would die murdering four Australian idiots who’d ruined one of the best days of my life.
I trembled on the spot, clinging with my final strength not to drown in hate. “I’m asking you nicely to leave,” I seethed. “One last chance to continue walking and forget about us.”
“You’re fucking having a laugh.” Blue t-shirt cracked his neck. “Give me the girl. I’ll look after her. She’ll find out what a real man—”
I hit him.
Square in the mouth.
His teeth split my knuckles, but it was worth it as he stumbled back and tripped off the curb.
The three other guys blinked as if not expecting me to deliver on my promises. I knew I shouldn’t have struck first. I wished I could get Neri far, far away from here.
But it was too late.
With a roar, the three uninjured men launched at me.
Neri got knocked to the side, landing on her knees as my hand was torn off hers and a punch thwacked against my temple.
My vision darted with black spots. Sickness splashed on my tongue. But it wasn’t until Neri screamed and the sight of Black t-shirt towering over her, pawing at her, that I lost myself completely.
“Neri!”
She screamed as he tried to catch her swinging fists, his hands somehow tangling in her sea lion necklace. He pushed her to the ground as his fingers broke the silver chain. Neri cried out, more enraged at him for breaking her necklace than him pressing her against the dirty street.
With a chuckle, he threw her necklace into the gutter and trod on her sunset dress, keeping her down as she tried to launch up and fight him.
Another punch landed on my jaw, spinning me around.
I lost sight of her.
I panicked at what that fucking cunt was doing to her.
But all I could see were fists and violence.
Strike after strike landed on my torso, head, and shoulders.
Each one cracked and fissured the man I did my best to be, unlocking the cage, knocking down the bars inside me, smashing through the walls and doors and barriers.
Neri screamed again.
And that was it.
I became everything I always ran from.
I became the monster I was born to be.
Violence ripped through me.
Roaring, I launched at the men taking turns to punish me.
