No time to scream. No time to fight.
A sharp sting at my neck, and darkness crashes in.
The last thing I hear…
“You’re mine now,” Russel murmurs.
Then… nothing.
CHAPTER 28
Dexter
“What happened?”
Everyone’s standing, asking me the same thing, voices overlapping, questions coming from every direction.
“Where did Lexy go?”
But all I can think about is the look on her face when I begged her to tell me the truth… and she told me I’m too much.
I shake my head.
All my life people have been saying this. You’re too loud, too energetic, too honest… too much.
A thousand thoughts and memories crowd my head, but one cuts through all of them.
IknowLexy.
And I know the Lexy who went to get cotton candy is not the same one who came back.
Something happened.
I feel it in my bones, in the way my chest won’t settle, in the way every instinct I have is screaming that something is wrong.
And I know only one person who could spook her like that. Only one man who could get into her head enough to make her walk away from me like that.
I don’t believe for a second that she left on herown.
“Dex, talk to me.”
Cas puts a hand on my shoulder, steady, grounding, but I shake him off before he can even finish.
“She left me.”
The words sound wrong the second they leave my mouth.
They slice through me anyway, sharp and misplaced, because even as I say them, I know they aren’t true.
Someone’s got something on her.
They must’ve been watching, close enough to see us, waiting for the right moment.
The thought makes something dark twist in my chest.
I turn to Cas, already moving, already thinking ahead.
“Someone has her, Cas. Check all cameras and talk to the cotton candy vendor.”
