Page 54 of Reaper
Chapter Twenty
Ara
Ara blinked at the threat.
The simple statement was issued without malice in his tone.He really believed that she would willingly go with him, but she could sense the rage that radiated underneath his passive exterior expression.
As she delved deeper into the reason for his anger, she realized that he thought himself powerful enough that a simple woman, like Ara, would want him because he exuded it.He thought it would be easy.Walk into the immortal’s home, and when she spotted him, she would immediately obey.The one thing that he’d forgotten since she’d escaped was that she never bent to his demands, even as his prisoner.He’d gone so far as to beat her unconscious in order to have his way with her, and yet, she was able to fight him off every time.
The longer she stood there without a word, the more his anger flooded her senses.She should have been afraid of what he might do, but she found herself wondering why she feared him in the first place.For as long as she could remember, she allowed her insecurities about her abilities to cloud her judgment.She could have fought them, used her powers to break the others out, and yet, she cowed to the man who was clearly insane.
Guilt and rage built inside her at the threat she received.She couldn’t help feel responsible for Solomon’s death, but this man put them in danger and ordered Solomon killed.A stunning realization slammed into her at that moment.Her eyes ran over the man’s face that looked vaguely familiar to her, and with a rush, she realized she knew him.
The similarities between the drug dealer who killed her parents, and the man who sat in front of her, were obvious.His hooked nose must’ve been a family trait, as was the pale skin and the thin build.Even the part in his hair was the same.
I think he’s the brother of the man who killed my parents.That’s what the note had been referring to.
I don’t really care.I just want him dead, beautiful.
Leave it to Reaper to make her want to laugh in the toxic situation.She gave his hand another squeeze before she stepped forward.Reaper’s answering growl let her know he was uncomfortable with her moving even inches closer to the man, but she needed to show that she wouldn’t ever be afraid of the man again.
“If you think you can get me out of here, you can try.”
The answering smile she received was supposed to strike fear into her, but irritation started to creep and spread throughout her, and she growled at him, taking him by surprise.He reached for the gun that he hid in the waistband of his slacks and pointed it at her.
“Which one of your new friends should I kill first?”
At that moment, all of her concerns fell by the wayside.She smiled as rage, pure rage of which she’d never experienced before, coursed through her body at his threat.She let it wash over her because it assured her that she could shift into her wolf and rip his throat out before he got a shot off.
“Don’t threaten them.It will not end well for you.”The words came out clipped and deep.
He threw his head back and laughed.Again, she blinked at his crazy antics, but watched where he pointed the gun as it traveled around the room.It stopped at each immortal—Hunter, Ghost, Jade, Gunnar, Ax, Kai, Thomas, Isaac, Kane, Xander—but before he could fix on one of them, his eyes found Liv.She should have known that he would select a woman.He lived for terrorizing women, and by selecting Liv, the smallest of them, he thought that he would distract them away from his main objective.Her.
Kai snarled when this man threatened his mate.The low, menacing sound would have been enough warning for a normal human, but this man wasn’t paying attention to anyone but Ara.
Worried that Liv or one of the others would accidentally get shot, Ara decided to make a move.
Without moving any part of her, she levitated the gun from his grip, and held it in front of his face.She dismantled the gun, piece by piece, until the gun wasn’t recognizable as such.With a sneer on her face, she dropped the fragments onto the carpet at his feet.“Don’t…threaten…them.”
Instead of showing fear, he held his hand out to the closest armed man and palmed another gun.As soon as he gripped the weapon, he whipped his arm toward Reaper and placed his finger on the trigger.
That was the last straw.
She lifted her hand and pressed her fingers together.Instead of watching his hand, she watched his face the moment she crushed his wrist with more force than was necessary.The gun slipped from his hand as the crunching of his bones echoed throughout the room.The gun bounced once against the carpet and no one made a move for it.
The suit dropped to his knees, clutching his wrist against his chest, as a keening sound escaped his throat.“Kill them all.”
“Shit.”
Everything descended into chaos at that moment.Before the human mercenaries could move, Kai had taken out the two closest to him with a simple snap of their necks.She hadn’t seen Reaper move, but within seconds, he had stolen a gun from one of the men who had already fallen, and with practiced ease, killed the two of them with well-placed shots to their foreheads.Before Reaper could reach the third, who had ducked behind a wall near the basement, he called for help.
“Move in, now!”
“Outside,” Ghost shouted.
Ara caught Reaper’s gaze.I’m going to bind him outside.We’ll take care of the others and then decide what to do with him.
With his nod of approval, she strode forward and picked up the suit by the collar.He gasped as her strength surprised him, but she held him up and sneered at him.She growled at him; the vicious sound made him flinch back, but with her hold on him, he couldn’t move.Although the fear in his eyes should have given her satisfaction, she felt nothing other than rage.
