Page 53 of Unmasked Prophecy
Emotionless.
“Talon,” Mera whispers. “Don’t. We both know you care about her.”
“She betrayed us. She dies for that.”
“She was trying to help a child,” Mera pleads. “Wouldn’t you do the same?”
“No, I fuckin’ wouldn’t.”
His hand is shaking and my heart is lodged in my throat, a fear unlike anything I’ve ever felt washing through me. I’m crying, but no sound is coming out. I don’t move my eyes from his, and when the click of the gun alerts me to him preparing it to shoot, I know he’s going to do it.
For this club, he’ll kill me.
A pained cry leaves my throat as my body shakes with the kind of pain I have never felt in my entire life.
It’s in this moment, I realize I have fallen in love with Talon.
It’s also in this moment I realize it isn’t enough.
“Wolfe,” Mera yells. “Stop this.”
Wolfe doesn’t speak.
Nobody does.
He’s going to kill me.
I only have one option left.
“I’m pregnant,” I yell, my voice cracking.
Everything goes still.
“What did you fuckin’ say?” Talon rasps, his hand still trembling.
“I’m pregnant.”
More silence.
Talon steps back, and then he bellows a curse word so loudly it makes me flinch. He spins to Wolfe, and the two of them exchange a look that I don’t quite understand.
“Won’t take the life of a child,” Wolfe growls. “You know that, Steel.”
Talon turns back to me. “You prove it. If it’s true, you’re not goin’ anywhere until we can decide what the fuck we’re goin’ to do with you. That freedom you were willin’ to give everything up for, kiss it goodbye. You’ll never be free again. Not if I have anything to do with it.”
With that, he turns his back to me.
“She’s just a child, Talon,” I whisper, my legs giving out as I fall to my knees. “She doesn’t deserve to stay there. I had no choice.”
He doesn’t face me. “There’s always a fuckin’ choice.”
Then, he disappears into the night, leaving me on my knees in the dirt.
I’ve ruined everything.
There is no coming back from this.
