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But then suddenly bands of steel whipped out of nowhere. They wrapped around Isobel from behind and from the left and the right and she was ripped away from her target.

“No!” Isobel screamed. “It’s the devil! I have to kill it. It has to die! I have to kill it.”

But the monster that had gotten hold of her wouldn’t let her go. It had so many arms. She fought and clawed but it has so many arms—

“What the hell is going on here? Isobel?”

Isobel looked toward the door and there was Hunter. He was bathed in golden light.

Hunter.

Sent from heaven. The love she could have had. The future that might have been hers. If it hadn’t been stolen by Satan.

She roared and threw off the arms that held her back. Then she barreled forward through all the shields surrounding the devil.

Isobel was already in hell. But she wouldn’t go down without taking Satan with her.

Chapter Twenty-Five

HUNTER

Hunter had no idea what the hell was going on. He’d hurried back from the farm call as quickly as he could—the cow had milk fever and had just needed a dose of calcium and magnesium. She was up on her feet in no time.

Then to get back here only to find Liam, Reece, and Jeremiah trying to restrain Isobel, who looked so furious she was about to burst a blood vessel. Not to mention the TV crew and gaggle of reporters that had descended on the bar. They were snapping shot after shot of Isobel like fucking paparazzi.

His eyes went back to Isobel. She did not look okay. Her face was red and sweaty and she was snarling that she was going to kill someone. The way she was staring at the woman across the room cowering behind several reporters made it pretty clear who.

Hunter started toward Isobel but all of the sudden, Isobel screeched at the top of her lungs and somehow jerked loose of the guys. She charged at the group of reporters like a raging bull. One of the bastards tried shoving a microphone in her face. “What does it feel like to see your—oh!”

Isobel shoved him violently aside, clearly trying to get to the tall, statuesque woman behind him.

Hunter jumped forward as Isobel screamed something that might have been, Satan!

What the fuck was she on? If one of the guys had given her some goddammed party drug to help her have a ‘good time’ on her birthday, he swore he’d kill the fucker.

“Bel!” he yelled right as her hands went for the woman’s throat. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her backwards. Her legs flew up and she immediately started thrashing wildly.

“Satan! Have to kill Satan!”

He saw how she’d gotten away from the guys earlier. She was using every ounce of strength she had to fight and it was like she didn’t care if she hurt herself to do it. The way she was thrashing, she was likely to dislocate her own arm but it wasn’t stopping her.

Hunter carried her toward the back wall, all the guys and Mel grouping around him as he went. “Nicholas,” he nodded to the largest man, straining to hold on to Isobel who was still fighting like a hellcat.

“Bel. Isobel. It’s us. It’s Hunter. You need to calm down, honey.” Hunter tried to flip her around so she was facing him but she just used the opportunity to thrash out and elbow him in the face.

“Damn.” He grabbed his jaw as Nicholas took hold of Isobel from behind. He crossed her arms over her chest and held them down at her sides like a straightjacket and then gripped her in a backwards bear hug.

“What happened?” Hunter asked, looking around from one shocked face to the next.

“I don’t know,” Liam said, jerking a hand through his hair. “One second she was fine, dancing and partying. The next it was like she was hearing voices. Then when her stepmom and the film crew showed up she just freaked the feck out.”

Hunter’s head jerked around to look at the woman Isobel had attacked. Her stepmother. Who was currently talking to Marie. The Sheriff. And pointing in their direction.

Shit. “We don’t have much time,” Hunter said. “Did any of you give her any drugs?”

“Fuck you,” Mack said, stepping into Hunter, eyes cold.

Hunter wasn’t backing down. He went chest to chest with Mack. “She’s high as fuck on something.”

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