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I should have kept running. I should have found a police station and told them about the situation.
Now we were trapped in this shroud with no one coming to help us.
The figure marched me back in the direction we’d come from.
My imagination leaped forward. I couldn’t help thinking about the terrible things they would do to me.
What they might do to Dyrel.
As we marched along the path, we came across a figure lying face down on the cracked stone.
Dyrel…
Spots of blood dotted the area. I wondered what they’d done to him.
To my darling Dyrel.
They’d given him a beating for coming out here to find me.
Because I ran away. Because of my issues.
I regretted ever leaving his apartment. I wished I could turn back the hands of time and change it.
Change everything.
But it was too late.
Now, the best I could do was try to help us stay alive.
What was I willing to do to keep Dyrel breathing?
Anything.
That realization shocked me.
Another figure swam into view. He stood on the other side of the figure on the ground. He stood with his hands behind his back.
I felt the bile rise in my throat. Pure hatred seeped from my veins at the sight of this evil creature.
As he came into view, he seemed smaller than he had when we’d run into him.
The alien Titan holding me by the neck must have noticed the same thing I had.
The guy standing before us, the guy who’d won the fight…
He was not their leader.
It was Dyrel.
I felt the hold on my neck loosen but not relent.
My heart soared. Dyrel must have fighting skills he hadn’t shared with me before.
And why the hell hadn’t he taught me those skills instead of damn dancing?
“The way I see it, you have two choices,” Dyrel said. “Either you release Vicky and we return home, and you get your friend to a hospital, or I do the same thing to you that I did to him. Then we’ll call the police and they can take you to the hospital. What do you want to happen?”
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum were not used to making decisions. They shared a look and shrugged.
