Kaal rushed at Mak, and an agonizing impact hit his shoulder. Kaal’s lunge had just saved his brother’s life.
Kaal wheeled around as Zolan grabbed Shiloh from Ladik’s grasp.
He roared and tried to get to Zolan.
Kaal pounced and stuck, sinking his fangs into the temple of the lashing, writhing man.
Twas not enough.
Ladik broke away and snarled, fighting hard.
Kaal cursed and discharged his firearm.
The bullet from his weapon launched at lightning speed.
Carved from diamonds and infused with a super-heated fusion power, it calibrated even in mid-air and rained down its destructive might on Ladik.
He had no chance.
Before our eyes, he staggered as the projectile hit.
Ladik’s head swelled, reddening, the combined amalgamation bloom spreading all over the stricken man, who was now roaring at the sheer agony of the blistering potency eviscerating him.
‘Shields,’ Mak snarled, raising his wrist comm to activate the electric barrier.
He stepped between the monstrosity and his woman, who darted with Shan behind Mak.
Kaal and Zolan did the same, with Shiloh safe in her man’s grasp.
Seconds later, Ladik exploded, disintegrating into a cloud of charred embers.
The slug was so efficient that nothing remained of the man that once had stood before them raging, not even a hint of smoke or scorching.
With a silent hiss, the dynamic bullet reformed and retreated into Kaal’s weapon.
Chapter 34
MAK
Silence stretched for a beat, thick and oppressive, before everything fractured.
Enzo moved.
Not as a man.
Not as anything close to human.
One second, he was standing over Ladik’s corpse, his features twisted in mock concern.
Next, his entire form convulsed, his skin shredding, dark tendrils bursting from beneath his flesh.
His bones cracked and elongated, his spine arching grotesquely until what had once been a man becamesachem.
The transformation lasted no more than a pulse, but the moment his eyes, now glowing pits of the abyss, locked onto Kaal and Mak, the whole room shifted.
Kaal fired.
The bullets never found him.
