Leaning in, I snarl, “Then what the fuck do you think we’re gonna do?Have tea and give you a damn foot rub after I take out your other eye and Triton has sucked your brain of all the information you’re not telling us?”
She screams and trashes in the chair she’s bound to.“Noooooo.You lie.Y-you’re going to kill me anyway.I hate you.You killed my mother.I’d rather die than help you.”
I tilt the rod in my VP’s direction and he partly shifts again to turn the tip into an orange glow.Her screams shift from anger to pain followed by a purple glow surrounding her.The glow implodes and she sags against the bindings.
“Finally,” Triton murmurs and steps forward.
The woman doesn’t so much as twitch when he touches her temple.She’s human now and the pain of her eyes, along with having her power ripped from her, must have knocked her out.
Red, crackling fire bounces from Triton’s fingertips as his eyes glass over.He hums while the woman starts to shake and moan in pain.Without her powers she won’t be able to have a healing ability.She’s mortal now, and it shows when Triton breaks the connection, causing her to pass out cold once again.
Triton rolls his shoulders.“As we suspected, Cassius raised her.He filled her head with lies and painted a world where we were the enemy.He used her ability to gain loyal men.She showed her powers, promised them one wish if they would work for Cassius.Obviously the fuckers didn’t know they would also be paying with their lives.”
“Do you have a location of those humans?”Shock asks.
Triton ignores our enforcer’s question when he turns to me.“They don’t know where your niece is, but they do know your old lady is pregnant.Oh, and Dave along with the two medical examiners who are missing?Dead.We need to keep Fosca close.I couldn’t get any information from the woman because he shut her out the second he became aware of Fosca’s pregnancy.”He turns to face Shock.“I have the location of the humans.They need to be taken care of.They’re dead anyway, but as of now they are the eyes and ears of Cassius, allowing that fucker to keep one step ahead of us.”
“Then let’s take ’em out and make sure he’s lost the advantage,” Karev snarls.
I jerk my chin in the direction of the woman still bound to the chair.“We’ll deal with this one first.”
“I’ll dump her at the hospital.She’s mortal, blind, and has lost all memory of the past few months.Yes, in case you’re wondering...I deliberately removed her memories of us, and her time spent in this town, just to be safe.”Triton shrugs.“I thought it be easier to dump her ass at the hospital than to get rid of a body.”
I glance around to check my brothers and they all nod.Unanimous agreement.
“Fine.We dump the woman and then we’ll take out the humans working for Cassius,” I tell them.
The door opens and Fosca’s voice fills the room.“And then we’ll use me to draw him out so we can kill him.”
“Fuck no,” I snarl.
CHAPTER TWENTY
–FOSCA –
We watch a prospect wearing a black hoodie pulled tight over his head guide the now blind woman in the direction of the hospital doors.
