Page 148 of Beast: Part Two

“You will die,” she snarls down in my face. “Just like he did.”

That’s the last time she will mention Nathaniel’s death. I let the anger and the pain I’ve had inside me for the last two months boil up in me. Rage fills me.

I let go of her wrist and dig my thumb in her eyes. I press until I darn near slip my finger in the socket. She screams, releasing my neck. I push her off me. We both get to our feet quickly and face off again. Her eyes are red, but she can obviously still see.

“This will take forever,” she chuckles. “We are too evenly matched.”

I snort. “Bitch, you could never be me.” Taking the blade out of my back, I toss it at her. It lodges right in between her chest and stomach area. She stumbles back before falling to her knees.

Her mouth moves, and blood sputters out. “You….you….”

I turn my back to her, and then back kick, pushing the blade further into her chest. I listen for the sound of her body hitting the ground. The thud it makes is music to my ears.

I grab my gun that slid under the bed. Walking over to her prone body, I fire two rounds into her head. Killing Victoria didn’t bring back Nathaniel. But it felt darn good. I make my way out of the room.

Beast

I watch Albany as she slips down the hall. I turn away and head in my direction. In order for Corbyn to get to those tunnels, he had to go back downstairs. The last time the heat sensor picked him up, he was upstairs, and I know he hadn’t been down those steps.

The sound of gunshots was still going on beneath me. Slowly, I creep down the hall, listening for any noise.

“Keep your head on the swivel, Kid,”Priest says in my head.

“Slaughter the devil, boy,” Mother encourages.

“Quiet,”I tell them both.

Noise from the bedroom at the end of the hall has me heading in that direction. I stop at the closed door.

“Let me come with you,” a male voice says.

“No. You will stay here and fight,” Corbyn replies.

I kick open the door. Corbyn is standing in front of an opening in the wall. It looks like an elevator. It wasn’t in the blueprints.

I fire off a round that hits Corbyn in the shoulder. He stumbles back into the elevator. Before I can fire again, the wall slides back into place.

“Nooo,” I shout. Rushing to the wall, I beat my fist against it.

“Once it’s been closed, you can only open it from the inside,” I turn to face Yohan.

His hands are up in the air as he backs away from me. “I finally come face to face with the almighty Beast,” He chuckles.

Lifting my gun, I aim it at his head.

“Wait,” he says. “You mean to tell me I shot your girl and then kidnapped her, and you’re just going to shoot me? I know you’ve waited for this moment. Do you want it to be over so quickly?” he nods toward the gun in my hand.

Looking down at the weapon, I think back over the moment Maksim told me Yohan took the shot at Summer. I rememberrunning his face through my memory, telling myself that when I’m done with him, he will never look the same again.

“Show him what you’re capable of,”Mother hums.

“Let me out,”the demon whispers.

I toss the gun to the ground. Yohan grins, dropping his hands by his side.

“Let the fun begin,” he snarls before charging toward me. He swings at me, but his fist meets my Bowie. It slices through his flesh. The blade lodged in between the knuckle of the pointer and the ring finger.

Yohan lets out a gut-wrenching yell. I yank the blade out of his hand, then jab it up through his chin and out through his mouth.

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