stand
here while the others fought. And Devin wasn’t taking any chances of
being captured again.
He would die before he allowed anyone to drag him back to
Martin. When he looked up and saw Keegan, Devin also saw the pure
black of evilness in the lycan’s eyes. It was eerie, but Devin wasn’t
going to cower this time. He was going to fight.
“Martin wants his pet back,” Keegan taunted.
“And he sent his lackey?”
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Keegan laughed, the sound chilling Devin’s bones. “I see you’ve
grown a backbone since shacking up like a whore with these men.
Charles wants you back as well. He says he wasn’t done with you.”
For one moment in space and time, Devin was hurled back into
Charles’s grasp, feeling his claws digging into Devin’s skin, mauling
him. Devin snapped his eyes to Keegan, feeling the cold brunt of
anger rising in him. “Then he’ll have to settle for my dead body.”
Keegan shrugged his furry shoulder. “I don’t think he’s too
particular.”
Devin could see the hate in the beta’s eyes and knew Keegan
despised Charles as well, but not enough to leave Devin alone. In that
moment, Devin wished beyond anything that Mercy was here. He
wasn’t a fighter and knew Keegan would win in a hand-to-hand
tussle.
The others were fighting off the invaders, but no one was near
enough to help him against the beta. Devin was on his own.
He parroted Keegan’s moves, trying to keep the lycan at bay as he
scrambled to come up with anything he could use to defend himself.
There were power tools on the back porch, but Devin seriously
doubted a drill motor would do him any good.
And that’s when he saw the ax underneath the drill motor. Now all
he had to do was get it, wield it, and hit his mark—easier said than
done. Devin had never picked up an ax in his life. Inching closer to
the porch, Devin dove for the ax and then rolled away in time before
Keegan landed on him.
“What are you going to do with that?” Keegan laughed. “The
damn thing weighs more than you do.”
Devin swung the ax outward, but Keegan jumped back, dodging
the sharp blade easily. “Come on, pet. You can do better than that. Do
you need me to show you how to kill with the damn thing?”
So easy.
So impossible.
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The blade was so close to Keegan that Devin could see the lycan’s
death, yet he couldn’t wield the tool he decided to turn into an
instrument of death properly. In the back of his mind, he knew
Keegan could easily take it from him.
The beta was playing with him.
Teasing him.
Showing Devin how truly powerless he was.
Devin gritted his teeth. Not today. No, today he was going to take
back some of the power that had been stripped away from him. Today
Devin was going to kill one of the men responsible for his beatings.
And Keegan was going to die.
He just had to figure out how to do it.
Keegan surprised Devin by leaping forward. The move was so
quick that Devin barely had time to raise the ax.
But he did.
And now Keegan’s body was impaled on the sharp blade.
Devin fell backward, the beta following him down, his eyes
glazed over.
There was so much blood.
Too much blood.
Devin pushed Keegan off of him, crawling backward until his
back hit the porch. He stared at the dead body in front of him,
watching as Keegan’s blood slowly spilt from his body.
He had killed the beta.
Devin began to laugh. He laughed so hard that it turned into tears.
He found himself lying on the ground—crying.
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Chapter Nine
“Mercy!”
Mercy ignored Pat as he headed toward the steps. He had to make
sure Devin was all right. They had come back to carnage in the
backyard, and Mercy didn’t see Devin anywhere. He was worried out
of his mind. There was so much blood in the backyard that Mercy felt
queasy.
The four of them had stopped and dropped the human teenagers
off at a well-known friend’s house on their way back. Mercy knew
Yenthu Wentz
Aneesa Price
Suzanne Weyn
Mary Marks
Craig Johnson
Patrice Michelle
Kate McMullan
Sherryl Woods
Steven Savile
Hallie Swanson