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We are going to have to rush her, and hope for the best.
Getting out of The Abyss is the smart move.
She’s clearly here to trap us, separating us from the rest of our pack and from Lita.
I glance at Snake, but he is too irritated to see I’m trying to catch his attention.
He keeps hissing at her, making threats and insults and trying to get her to do something to him. It dawns on me that he is doing this so that I’ll have a chance to attack. I realize this a split second before she seems to, and I lunge at her, foot raised to kick the gun out of her hand.
She shoots before it’s kicked away from her, letting the dart shoot through the air toward my torso. It comes dangerously close to hitting me, right before Snake snatches the dart out of the air with his tongue, avoiding the needle part.
I tackle Valerie to the ground, and she grabs hold of my arm, her eyes going dark as she uses her life-draining ability on me. The icy cold grip of death makes me go still in her grasp.
It feels as if my breath is being stolen.
I can’t move, and I can’t breathe.
She smirks at me and pushes me away, her body starting to change, to get bigger.
I fight to catch my breath and Snake grabs my arm and drags me out of The Abyss before she can finish her transformation. He drags me to my feet, and we start to run through the forest.
The ground shakes under us as she escapes The Abyss.
Now we have two phoenix chimera to kill, and once we do, we have to find a way to make them stay dead. I hope to hell Fox and Scratch have managed to keep our mate safe, and I hope they’re still close by, because we’re going to need all the help we can get.
Chapter Forty-Five
Lita
Iracehome,runningon adrenaline and instinct. I know this is where I’ll find him. I don’t need to think about it. He’s been playing games, but it’s all to get him to an end point where he gets everything that he wants.
I’m proven right when I leave the back yard and shift into my human form to walk around to the front of the house. I catch his scent trail and find him sitting on the front porch alone.
He gets to his feet and pulls on a bright smile as he comes down the steps toward me.
“Lita. I wondered when you’d get here.”
I stare back at him, knowing I need to figure out exactly what he wants from me in order to end this.
He’s not just going to tell me if I ask. That would be too easy.
It seems like he enjoys making things complicated.
“What are you doing here?” I ask, ignoring the fact that he should be dead.
He clearly isn’t. How that happened doesn’t matter right now.
“I’m here to see you,” he says, his expression full of concern. “I was afraid for you, being left alone with those monsters.”
I don’t know what it is, exactly, but he’s not being sincere. I can tell even before he starts to smirk at me.
“I was right to be afraid, wasn’t I? You liked what they did to you. I can still smell them on you.”
He takes in a deep breath and stares down at my crotch.
When he looks back up at me, his eyes are icy cold.
“You let them defile you.”
