and I stared at him. "What kind of bioweapon?"
Cain just glared at me, but fuck that.
I stormed back towards him and punched him as hard as I could, making his head wheel sideways and his lip split open.
"The man I love is in that tunnel," I snarled with a fear coursing through me unlike anything I'd ever known before. "So you're going to tell me what the fuck you're talking about or I'll tear the truth right out of you with my bare hands."
Cain glared at me with his lip pulling back, looking like that declaration had hurt him more than my punch had. "Love? Aren’t there enough men here between the three of us for you? What other poor fucker have you tricked into falling for your lies? If this is what it feels like to be loved by you then I feel sorry for him, because you’re nothing but a selfish, manipulative liar. I don’t believe you’re even capable of feeling anything close to love for anyone other than yourself."
The Wolf in me reared her head and bared her teeth as I prepared to go all in on this stronzo just as a scream echoed through the tunnels and I whirled back around towards it.
Ethan backed away from the hole in the wall just as Esme fell through it and started sobbing as she scrambled away.
"What is it?" I gasped as I raced towards her and Sonny and Brett launched themselves through right on her ass.
"Giant fucking teeth worm things," Sonny choked out, his eyes wild as he grabbed Brett's arm and hauled him away from the hole. I’d never seen him run from a single thing in all the time I’d known him and that horror in his eyes had every instinct in my body bursting to attention.
"Where's Roary?" I demanded, fear unlike anything I’d ever felt before taking me captive as I advanced on them and the three of them shook their heads hopelessly.
"Everyone's dead," Sonny choked out. "Those things ate them."
"They ate them!" Esme shrieked again, clutching her tits as she backed up further like she was afraid for their safety.
“No,” I hissed, because it wasn’t true. It wasn’t. Roary wasn’t dead. There wasn’t any way that fate would be that fucking cruel as to steal him from me after everything I’d already suffered through in my life. After everything he’d suffered through. I wouldn’t believe it. I couldn’t. If I even entertained the idea, I was going to fracture into a thousand pieces and wither away into nothing at all.
My heart leapt and pounded to a murderous rhythm as I shook my head in denial, trying to figure out how the fuck this had happened, what the fuck had happened.
"You told me they weren't switching the new system on until Sunday," I snarled, twisting around and pointing at Cain as I tried to get my head around what the fuck was happening and how we were going to fix it. Because it had to be fixable. No way was I considering any alternative. Roary was okay and we were getting out of here tonight to start our lives again. It wasn’t over. I couldn’t accept that this was how tonight ended. After all the promises I’d made to him. This was not how this went down. I’d rearrange the stars myself to save him if I had to.
"By Sunday. And it's not like I had any reason to keep you updated," Cain spat back bitterly. "Maybe you should have let me in on this little plan of yours if you were going to rely on my help so heavily."
"Fuck you," Sin snarled, stalking towards him, but I shot him a warning glare as I took off towards the tunnel.
"I'm getting Roary out of there," I said defiantly as I headed forward, my earth magic rippling beneath my flesh. I'd be able to find him using it, track his location using the vibrations of his footsteps and-
A figure appeared in the tunnel before I could climb into it and my heart lifted with hope before dashing to pieces again as fucking Gustard threw himself out of the hole, swiftly followed by Pudding. Of course the cockroach had survived, though he looked thoroughly shaken and was covered in blood which didn’t seem to be his.
"Where's Roary?" I demanded and Gustard laughed bitterly.
"Dead. Along with everyone else. Thanks to you and your bullshit plan." He lunged at me in fury, but Ethan swung at him before he