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When I got to the castle, I held the amulet tighter, willing myself to return. This was my fight, and I would take Donovan down as a man. Face to face. I felt myself morphing back as four legs became two. I threw open the door, walking in on my own two feet.
Donovan stood in the Great Hall, eyes bulging. “So, it’s true,” he said, backing up against the stone fireplace. “Cormac was right. W-w-what the fuck are you?”
“I’m your worst nightmare,” I growled.
The gun in his hand shook as he pointed it toward me.
I held up my hand, and it flew from his grasp, clattering to the floor.
“I didn’t hurt her. I promise I didn’t hurt her,” he cried.
A low growl emanated from behind me, and I looked back to see Aidan coming inside. His face was ashen gray, and his eyes a deep yellow. He was limping. “It’s not true. He did hurt her and would have continued to do it if she hadn’t escaped,” he said. “I tried to stop him.”
“Is that true?” I turned to Donovan.
Dearil willed himself back into my thoughts. I stepped forward and grabbed Donovan by the front of his shirt, lifting him off the ground. “Is that true?”
“Keir,” Evie shouted from the door. “Please don’t.”
“Did he touch you, Evie?” I demanded. “Answer me, lass.”
“Yes, but I’m fine,” she pleaded. “Please don’t hurt him. This isn’t you.”
“Did you touch her, you motherfucker?” I asked Donovan one more time.
“I-I-it was nothing she didn’t ask for.” My vision turned red, and I threw him across the room.
Footsteps pounded down the stairs, and Cormac stood at the bottom, holding himself as he tried to back away. “You’re real. I knew you were fucking real. No one would believe me.”
“Cormac,” Evie screamed.
“No,” he said. “All of you stay away from me.” He ran outside, and Aidan and Evie followed him.
Donovan looked up at me from the ground. “The little bitch deserved everything.”
I bent down and grabbed his head twisting it until I heard his neck snap then I picked up the gun and went out to find Evie and Aidan.
Aidan walked back toward me. “The bloody fool jumped off the cliff. He hit the rocks below.”
“Jesus Christ,” I said, running my hands through my hair. “You’re hurt.”
“A bullet grazed my thigh. I’ll be all right.”
I nodded. “I need to go find Evie.”
“Aye, I’ll take care of Donovan,” Aidan said.
I nodded. “Dump the body in the ocean. Hopefully, they’ll wash out to sea.”
I found Evie on the same hill I did a few weeks ago, gulping water from a small natural spring.
Tears streamed down her face, and she drank as if she had never seen water before.
I didn’t know if I should go to her or leave her be.
She had seen all of me.
The worst of me.
