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Once Sina walked back into the pack house, we started our trek through the woods. I dragged Jaroth by his hair, intentionally walking over sharp rocks and through streams to give him a good taste of what death would feel like for him.
He coughed up water, and his body was cut in various places from the rocks and twigs. We walked for what seemed like hours until the path forked into two ways. The right path led north, straight for the ice pits. The left went … another way.
So, I turned left and continued dragging Jaroth’s body along.
“I thought it was this way,” Gaian said, nodding toward the path on the right.
“It is, but we have to make a stop.”
“Do we need to?” Gaian asked. “We told Sina we wouldn’t waste time.”
“Oh, this time won’t be wasted. That, I promise you.”
I yanked Jaroth along harder, hoping he’d finally fucking notice where I was taking him. I wanted to hear him scream and beg for me to stop, for us to turn back, for his fucking life, like Sina must’ve done every single night that she stayed with her father.
“And once we take care of Jaroth, we’ll find Sina’s father.”
Jaroth glanced up from the ground, his eyes widening. “No. Gods, fucking no. Not here.”
My lips curled into a smirk, and I dragged him along deeper into the forest. The gray fog that hung between the trees thickened, the brown dirt slowly turning into red rock and the sky glinting pink. Hellhounds howled in the distance.
“Anything but this,” Jaroth said.
Monsters of all kinds—who especially loved to devour demons—lurked in these forests. They didn’t really enjoy feasting on any half-breeds, like me. And, fuck, I could only imagine what they’d pay for a demon with royal blood.
Too bad he wasn’t worth anything to us anyway. I wouldn’t accept a single fucking coin for him. All I wanted was to see him in the saliva-covered fangs and the sharp talons of a monster who’d rip him to shreds.
Not pieces. Shreds.
Once we made it deep into the land, I whistled to garner the attention of the monsters. After dropping the grip that I had on Jaroth’s head, I walked with Gaian to the nearest tree and sat down on the hard red ground, leaning against the bark.
“Take a front row seat,” I said to Gaian. “You’re going to enjoy this.”
Four-legged monsters crawled out from the forest, their bodies covered in mud and their skin wrinkled. With their four-inch claws, they walked up to Jaroth, their large snouts sniffing at his limbs and his body.
Jaroth lay in the middle of the path, completely paralyzed. “Please! Stop this!”
In a fury, twelve monsters were on Jaroth’s pathetic body, tearing him to shreds.
Gods, I wished I’d had some popcorn.
“You bring anything to eat?” I asked Gaian.
He pulled out a pack of M&M’s out of his pocket—fucking savage—and poured a few into my palm.
I rested my head back against the tree and pointed to Jaroth’s half-eaten body. “Don’t forget the head. Gotta eat the head too.”
A monster opened his mouth, stuck Jaroth’s entire demon head inside it, and chomped down, ripping his head off his throat. When he tore the flesh apart, blood squirted everywhere. I chuckled and popped an M&M into my mouth, enjoying this without regret or remorse.
This fucker deserved every last bit of torture.
Gaian sat beside me and smirked. “I wish Sina had come to see this.”
“Me too, Gaian. Me fucking too.”
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the villain
