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I’m at a total fucking disadvantage. He’s going to take her. I have no weapons, and I can’t exactly charge at him without being flung back and landing on my ass.
I have nothing but my words.
There isn’t anything I can say that will change the outcome of this mess because they are only following orders, which is why I need to find his weakness—the good old-fashioned way.
I’m desperate, with nothing to lose buther.
“So you’re the idiot I’ve heard all about.Got it,” I tease, going for fucking broke. His head turns to face me, eyebrows narrowing slightly.
I’ve got him.
“What the fuck are you talking about?” he replies, insecurity written all over his basic frat boy features.
“No offense,man,” I use his previous words back at him. “Do you honestly thinkFather Grimsbywill be impressed if you leave behind the man responsible for the complete and utter take-down of his precious supplier? I guess you really are an idiot. I mean, these aren’t my words,” I raise my chained hands to either side of me in mock surrender. “That other guy sure had a lot to say about you when he was out here last,” I tease, digging the proverbial knife deeper.
I watch as his expressions change with each whirling thought. He wears his feelings on his face, like gossip in a local rag, on full display to me. He’s not just insecure.
He’s jealous.
I’m not sure about the nature of their relationship, the priest and that other bastard, and I sure as hell have no idea if they’re all intimate together or not. With the way he’s looking at me, all angry and confused, tells me he wants to ask questions, like some sort of jealous lover.
“You’re a liar.”
“Am I?” I reply, looking him dead in the eyes.
“He’s only distracting you, Jeremy. If you fall for his games, then you deserve to be called an idiot. Now,” the woman says, utterly immune to the fury radiating off me as she storms over to Airlie. “Come, girl,” Ursa grabs Airlie by the arm with unnecessary force and pushes her intoJeremy’sarms like she isn’t the sole reason I am breathing.
“Don’t fucking touch her!”I’m screaming now. My vision blurs, and my heartbeat hammers like a drum in my ears as Jeremy pulls my love away.
Airlie doesn’t struggle.
She doesn’t so much as look at me as he drags her out of the cave and away from me.
“Let her go, you fucking coward!”I’m shouting now, pulling wildly at the chains as warmth starts to trickle down my forearms, my blood dripping to the rocky ground.
I feel nothing.
Nothing but fury and cruel, unrelenting heartbreak.
Please. Don’t take her.
Desperation clings to me as fear wraps its talons around my throat, making it harder to breathe.
My gaze flicks to the wicked cunt standing off to the side, wearing a twisted expression, as her hollow eyes take me in.
She’s fucking dead.
They all are.
Chapter20
EZEKIEL
“Now that they’re out of my hair, let’s get down to business, shall we?” Ursa says, sauntering to my side of the cave, leaning against the stone wall opposite me. I only need her to take one more step, and I’ll rip her ass to fucking shreds.
“I’ve heard about you, you know,” she claims, but I don’t bother replying. I don’t care for a single word that falls from her mouth.
I have one goal and one goal only.
