“To go where?” I ask, genuinely not understanding.
“To the rock,” Brad says slowly, as if he’s worried I’m suffering a mental impairment.
I fucking am.
“The rock,” I repeat. “Where the snake is.”
“Yeah,” Rex says. “Scarlett told me that Grace wanted them to go—”
“Grace did what?” I roar, grabbing Rex by the shoulders. “Where is she?”
“Hey!” Shawn yells, jumping on my back. “Cool down, right now!”
“Not until I know where she is!” I yell, spinning around to get Shawn off me.
A soldier peers in through the back, looking worried. “Boss?” he mutters.
“Get us to the incursion site now!” Rex snaps.
The officer salutes and runs to the front of the van, and I hear it start. Shawn relaxes a little as I slowly sink to the floor, then he lets go of me.
“You let her… You let her go?” I croak, looking up at Rex. “You let them leave without us?”
“You’re scaring the shit out of me right now!” Brad yells. “What the fuck is going on?”
“I don’t even know!” I yell back at him. “But the snake needs witches, and it’s either going to get out of the rock for good and create hell on earth, or get destroyed once and for all. I don’t know, no one fucking knows, and the girls might sacrifice themselves…” My voice trails off as I choke on my own nonsense.
“Escape for good?” Shawn asks.
“Hell on earth?” Brad yells.
“Sacrifice themselves?” Rex swears. “Hey, you guys! Move it!” he roars, leaning out the window of the van to smash the side. The van speeds up immediately.
“What the actual fuck are you babbling about?” Brad snaps. “They said they were going to try and figure out the best way to contain it or monitor the situation so more people didn’t get hurt. What do you think they are going there to do?”
“Something is going down,” I say. “And don’t say you know—it’s something bigger. Grace told me there are these witches, right, and they’ve been keeping an eye on the snake. They want to finish him off. It’s got something to do with the girls—”
“Our girls?” Rex asks.
I nod. “Yes, our girls. I don’t know, okay? I don’t really know shit about this, but the thing is, neither does Grace.”
“What?” Shawn asks, baffled. “You think she led them into battle without even knowing what they were walking into, or what they were supposed to do?”
“That’s exactly what I think,” I reply.
There is silence for a moment as the guys absorb the news.
“What’s this about hell on earth?” Brad asks. “I’ve never heard this before. Isn’t the whole snake deal about turning an alpha and his magical missus into super villains?”
“I don’t know about that,” I answer. “That might be bullshit cooked up by the snake so people keep feeding it sacrifices.”
Or by the witches, who have their own completely insane motives.
“What I do know is that if it gets loose, it will burn the whole world,” I continue. “It will leave people alive to feed it, but everything else will die.”
“This is bad,” Rex whispers.
“Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse,” Shawn adds.
