He narrowed his eyes at me and licked his scarred lips.
“Shouldn’t you be afraid of monsters, Mr. Walker?” His voice was soft, dangerous.
Did he not realize that he was the one who had taught me how to hunt people like him?
I was the thing the monsters were afraid of.
I let out a dark laugh, holding his gaze.
“Have you forgotten, Damian?” I gave him a slow, murderous smile. “I’m a monster too.” I looked him up and down, clocking all the ways I could kill him. Most of them didn’t even require a weapon. “And I’m a much scarier monster than you.”
This time. I wouldwatchhim die. I wouldn’t leave his side until he took his last rattling breath and his heart stopped in his chest.
I would watch the fucking light leave his eyes.
A slow, deadly smile spread across Damian’s face.
“Hmm,” he said, walking slowly toward me. He rested his palms on his knees and brought his hideous face close enough to mine that I could feel his breath dance across my lips.
“I wonder if Naomi would agree?” he purred, and my vision wentred.
Alexa, play: Big Dawgs - Humankind, Kanu
Istopped the car a half mile out from Apex while we waited for our backup to arrive. Taking advantage of the downtime, I ran Ryan and Theo through some tactical hand signs. It was surprisingly easy to teach them, as apparently, Gavin’s ghost was explaining everything to Ryan.
As much as the cynic in me wanted to reject the fact that Gavin’s spirit was really here whispering in Ryan’s ear, I couldn’t deny the fact that it would be impossible for Ryan to fake this.
On top of that, Ryan was one of the straightest shooters I’d ever met. Why the fuck would he make this up?
I received an encrypted text from Logan informing me that he, Ronan, and Dakota were in position as I was packing my bag with extra ammo and my single remaining grenade.
Testing out Ryan and Theo’s newfound knowledge, I used the signal tomove forward.
Theo and Ryan immediately fell in step behind me, both of them matching my pace perfectly.
Pleased that they had taken the lesson seriously, I moved quickly through the woods. I used the natural landscape to cover us as much as possible.
Logan had done a quick sweep of the dark web to see if we could get an idea of Damian’s forces and what we were up against.
It looked like he outbid us on one of the deals we already eliminated. If Logan was right, he had about ten guys with him, which was a pain in the ass but not impossible to overcome.
If it had been just me, it would have been a suicide mission.
But Damian didn’t know about our recent alliance with Logan, Ronan, and Dakota. On top of that, Ryan and Theo were not complete novices. They were both excellent fighters, and Ryan now had surprisingly good aim with a handgun.
As long as the two of them listened to me, I had high hopes for this mission.
Which was a good thing because I refused to fail.
Seeing Naomi’s stupid fucking gnome buckled in the back seat of that mangled G-Wagon made me feel things I hadn’t felt in a long time.
Not since Gavin died.
I was not leaving here without her.
I would raze the entire planet before I left her to die here.
That tiny ray of sunshine with her stupid fucking sundresses and annoyingly positive outlook on life was not dying in the shit hole that had stolen my soul from me.
