my back. I jump to my feet with a smirk, looking her up and down before I wink at her.
“Thanks to you,” she spits. “We need to go now before more arrive.” Her eyes widen, and a split second later, a knife is soaring through the air.
I start to duck, thinking she’s finally taking her shot to kill me, but it sails past my head, and I turn when I hear a cry to see it embedded in the chest of a man trying to sneak up on me. Growling, I yank the blade out of his torso and slash it across his throat before kicking him to the floor. With the bloodied blade in my hand, I look back at my girl. Fuck, she’s right. No time for getting to my knees and tasting her pussy until she screams the way these men did. Not yet.
“Get dressed now,” I demand. “We are leaving.”
“I fucking hate you,” she snaps as she starts to storm away.
“I hate you too!” I call after her, even though I know it’s a lie. I hate myself for wanting her and for bringing this to her door. For involving her in the carnage of my life when I left so I never would. No, I don’t hate her. I never could. In fact, I want her so badly, it hurts. I want to fight side by side with her for the rest of my life. But I can’t. I’m going to get her to safety, stop the council from hunting me and her, and then leave.
Leave her to her life.
One without me.
REMI
I pack quickly, grabbing one of the emergency bags and anything I don’t want to leave behind. They were sent by the council, I know it. Supes and fucking nephilim. What have I done? Why are they hunting me? Is it because I haven’t killed him yet, or have they finally written me off? I don’t know. I don’t even know if there is a way to fix it so I’m not hunted for the rest of my life. The one thing I know for sure is that I need to stay close to Khalid. He may be my saviour, but not in the way he probably thinks.
If I give him to them, maybe they will let me walk away alive. So sticking close it is until I figure out why they want him so badly and if I can use him as a bargaining chip. I slip into jeans, a top, and a jacket, cringing at the still wet blood on my skin. I have a minute to clean my face and neck, but other than that, I don’t have much time. At least if I’m seen, I won’t look like I just escaped a horror movie. I leave my hair wild in loose curls around my shoulders, the blonde and dark brown streaks no doubt flecked with red, but hopefully, no one notices. I know my eye has gone back to normal, the panic and bloodshed sating the creature until it faded to the background.
I almost fucked him again, but more than that, I wanted to after the fight. Seeing him in action… Fuck, my pussy clenches at the thought alone. Watching the blood spray through the air from his claws… Which, by the way, what the fuck? What is he? Not to mention how easily and quickly he decapitated the men, killing them with a single fucking blow… And that thing he did… He touched them, and boom, it was like he’d thrown acid on them, but only ten times worse. They screamed and clawed at their eyes and skin as it melted away, until all that was left was a bloody ball where a human once stood.
What the fuck is he?
It’s all I can think about, but I know we need to move before more come. I’ll get answers sooner rather than later, using whatever means necessary, because it’s clear he’s neither human nor demon. He’s something else. Something infinitely more dangerous, stronger, and more powerful, and I’m now tangled up in whatever he’s done to piss off the council.
I’m on the side of who I used to hunt. I’m no fucking prey, but I’m being pursued. There is one thing they clearly don’t know about me though—I will do whatever it takes to stay alive. Always have, always will, and as soon as I get rid of Khalid in whatever way I deem necessary, I will be back to