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Faster than mine.
He flung me across the hallway.
I sailed over forty feet before crashing against the stone wall. I screamed in pain, the tender flesh on my sides ripping open.
But I couldn’t let that slow me. In the few seconds it took me to get to my feet and start towards him, he’d unlocked the cell and gripped Daphne in his arms, clawed hand under her throat.
“Submit and I’ll deal with you first. Otherwise, I’m going to spray your pretty friend’s throat on the wall.”
He was over twenty feet away.
I didn’t think. Instinct took over.
Green lighting exploded out of my palms, landing a direct hit on his arm. He jerked back, loosening enough that Daphne was able to get out of his grip, even in her weakened state. I didn’t hesitate to charge.
“Unnatural bitch,” Maddox growled.
“Run,” I ordered Daphne, charging against the Alpha. I tried to summon the sparks again, but little came. We grappled. I went for every low blow I could, gouging his eyes, biting his fingers, groin shots. It wasn’t pretty, but Maddox was ruthless in return. He punched my kidneys hard enough to make me stumble back and landed a blow to my head that had me spewing blood.
And then his hands were wrapped around my throat.
He thrust me against a cell, the silver digging into my back, burning.
“I’m going to enjoy watching the life bleed out of you,” he said, his grip tightening slowly like he was savoring it.
My vision turned spotty.
I prayed Daphne was using the time to run. I’d planned on us escaping together, but there was no way I could survive this.
It was funny, that moment before death. It could only have been a second, maybe two, but in it, Cole’s face flashed a hundred times in my blurring vision.
I’m sorry, Cole.I wasn’t sure what for. Betraying him? The fact he’d kept secrets from me? Or simply the fact I’d never see him again?
Maddox’s grip was suffocating. I gasped, trying and failing to draw the oxygen in.
“Fight, Avery!” Daphne called.
She hadn’t run.
“And once you’re dead, I’mreallygoing to have my fun with her,” Maddox gloated.
No.
The thought wasn’t a word.
It was an explosion.
My hands were limp by my sides, but light exploded out of me. Not sparks, not lightning, but a burst of green that threw Maddox back off of me.
It wasn’t like when he threw me against the wall. It was a flash and then he crashed against the wall, collapsing down onto the floor, his head cut open as blood spilled out.
The hallway was silent. He wasn’t breathing.
Daphne was by my side in a second, checking me over even though she could barely stand.
“Is he dead?” She cast a terrified glance toward me.
“I suppose I should thank you for that.”
