His voice pulls me from my silence, and I quickly move toward the back ofmy house.
He walks through the back door as I hold it open, hitting what's left of Thomas’s head on the side of the frame, and doesn’t even flinch. “Be careful, Jesus.”
He turns around, eyes blinking rapidly as he stares at me. “Seriously? He’s fucking dead.”
I wave him off. “I meant with my fucking door.”
He chuckles as he strolls toward the woods.
A moment later, he returns without a body.
“What did you do with him?”
He brushes into the house, and I follow after him. “Tell me, Ryven. What if he’s found out there? What if this comes back on me?”
He goes to my kitchen and begins washing his hands. “Don’t worry, Little Rabbit. I got you, babe. I told you I have a plan.”
I sigh, resigning myself to the fact he won’t tell me the plan, and head toward my bedroom. I need to clean up my bathroom anyway.
An hour later, I’m on my knees in the bathroom scrubbing my floor when Ryven returns.
“Damn, you’re sexy when you’re on your knees covered in blood.”
I look at him over my shoulder and scoff. “Well, you’re a bit of a weirdo, huh?”
He chuckles and joins me on the floor. Instead of kneeling or helping, he sits on his ass with his back against the bathroom vanity.
I raise my brow. “Aren’t you going to help me?”
He shakes his head and places his head on the wood. “Nope. I’ll pull my weight later tonight—in ways you’ll thank me for.” His smirk doesn’t reach his eyes.
I sigh. “Fine.”
“I do have something I need to talk to you about, though,” he explains.
“Oh yeah?” I ask absentmindedly.
“Our council leader is missing.”
This raises the hair on the back of my neck.Missing? That’s not something that just… happens.Does that mean we don’t have a representative for our district now? I stop scrubbing and gaze at him. “What does that mean for our district?”
He shrugs. “I don’t know how it will be affected as a whole, but I do know how I will be affected.”
I raise my brow.
“Cedric made me—” he pauses. “The go-between from the council and the cult. Now, I’ll receive all of the orders directly instead of being given assignments.”
I sit and relax against the side of the tub. “So now you’ll be our representative? I don’t understand. Doesn’t that mean you’ll know who they’re going to kill next? You could save them before it happens.”
He stares at me blankly, his jaw tightening. “Ro, I have no intention of being some hero. Not anymore. I have one mission in mind, and it isn’t to save a district member.”
All my hope of him being the kind human being I knew back in high school, goes out the window. “This is why we can’t fucking work.” Why we never will. I can’t believe for a second I almost believed he would change.
He ignores me and continues talking. “I don’t know why you think I’m some knight in shining armor. I’ve never claimed to be. I love the torture and the sacrifices as long as the people deserve it.”
I bite my lip. “Not all of the cult’s killings are justified, Ryven. That’s why I fight against them. That’s why you need to fight against the cult, too.”
“You think I haven’t been dismantling them from the inside?” His voice rises. “I’ve fought against them since day one. You act like I’m following along like any other member, just hoping I can bask in their fucking glory.”
