Page 44 of Enzo

"There are more downstairs. You know I don't like to be alone." He raised his voice and commanded them to come upstairs.

"Sorry," Cole said, walking into the room. "They can't hear you because I killed them."

"This is who you picked over me!" He shook her in rage.

Enzo's growl made him stop before he pulled her closer, making sure she was in front of him.

"Don't get too upset. I gave each man a chance to leave and make a new life for himself. They weren't interested." Cole gave him a smile while he looked over the dead in the room.

"Declyn's downstairs. He has Xander and Caden on clean up."

Enzo nodded; no one would find the bodies or evidence of blood.

Matt looked around. In his pride of never being taken down, he ignored that whatever he was dealing with wasn't human. All he needed to do was get out of here. Then he'd report them to the authorities and watch as they took them down. After that, he would still get Deja, but she would pay for what she cost him today.

"Take her and let me leave. I've come to my senses; she's not worth the hassle." He stared at Enzo waiting for his answer.

"All right." Enzo stepped aside, allowing him access to the door.

"I'll be back for you," he whispered in Deja's ear. "After the government has exterminated your alien friends."

Enzo reached out and scratched Matt on his way out. "Fear," he murmured as Matt stumbled to the stairs.

There was a whimper coming from Matt and a scream before Xander came into view and put him asleep.

Enzo broke the handcuffs chaining her to the bed and took off his shirt and covered her with it.

"What happened to you?" she demanded, seeing the bandages and the blood that covered the bandage.

"No, Deja, this is about you and what that monster was doing to you. I couldn't protect you, and I'm sorry." He pulled her into his arms while her body shook against him.

"You protected me. Both you and Ven, and you brought some of our friends to help get the job done. He beat me, but I'll recover, and it could have been so much worse. You got here in time. How did you get here?"

"Safire came to look for us when she heard your message this morning."

"I'll call her when we get home. I think we'll have to skip dinner today. What did you do with Matt? You didn't kill him."

"I can kill him if you want, but I thought it was a little too nice and neat if his body went missing. Instead, I infected him with a naturally occurring enzyme in my body, and I reinforced it by giving it an order: fear. For the rest of his life, he will have unnatural fears that will drive him crazy."

"Won't they find the enzyme within his body?"

"No, your technology isn't close to being able to spot something like this. The enzyme will look just like one of his ownunique to his body, but it will keep replicating until he knows nothing but fear."

"Do you think that's a little harsh?" Deja looked at him, her brown eyes beseeching him.

"I think he planned to rape you. That's what I think. He planned to get you pregnant, tie you to him, and maybe kill you after the kids. No, I don't think it's a little harsh. I want to do so much more to him and I could, but I won't take the chance the authorities may realize they are sharing the earth with my people." Enzo's eyes were blazing, and his body was shaking.

He's this way because of us.

He came for us because he cares.

They all care.

Deja laid her head on his chest. It was past time he knew what she'd done.

"I have something to tell you." It was now or never.

"Tell me when we get home, camire."

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