Page 19 of Bloody Valentine

I had a view inside the windows up on the second-story floor of my Little Virgin. She was talking to the one we were supposed to be hunting and peering around outside.

Did she see us? And more importantly, had she recognized me?

“Do you know my chosen?” I said out loud.

Hayes followed my gaze and shook his head. “Nah. She’s hot, though, but clearly a fucking nutball.”

“I like ‘em crazy and broken,” I said, with a low growl in my throat.

Hayes continued to stare at the window with me until Vivian roughly dropped the blinds of the room.

“Yeah, good luck with that.”

The fact that Vivian was such a challenge and not like these meek, mousey women was honestly such a relief.

Ding.

Hayes looked down at his phone and smirked. “Well, looks like we have a bite.”

I rolled my shoulders and looked up one last time at the woman in the dormitory. My Little Virgin may have saved that student from me…but she would never save herself.

“Damn! This bitch can run.”

The adrenaline was thrumming inside my brother’s veins and mine as we ran. We were electrified, deep in the hunt. The first-year lab tech was nearing the end line of the woods. She would soon realize that there was nothing but a cliff to greet her.

She could choose to take her own life by jumping into the dark water below, or she could turn around and face us.

It was always my favorite part to see what choice someone would make, how desperation and hope made people do the stupidest things. There was no other option…jump or turn around.

We could see the female’s pigtailed silhouette running to the end of the tree line toward the cliff. We needed to hurry. It was nearing daybreak. It was much later than I wanted to be out here.

The sun was cracking through the clouds. Hayes was lagging behind, and I turned my body, continuing to run while backward. Adjusting my horned mask onto my face, I hollered back to Hayes.

“Lazy Haysie! Where’s that hockey athleticism?”

Hayes growled and picked up his pace.

“I run on skates, asshole,” he grumbled.

I was taller than my brother, but not by much. He was catching up to me in so many ways, though. His time was nearing to take over me entirely.

Heneededto learn.

I wouldn’t be here forever to teach him how things worked. He had to appease the Elders and excel overall, including myself. Thinking of the scars riddling my back and shoulders, I flinched.

His own skin depended on it.

“Go away! What is wrong with you?” the female was shrieking.

She must be close enough to see the cliff. The school sat on this type of peninsula. There was a large cliff surrounding all sides but one, and unlucky for her, we were blocking her only means of true escape.

“It’s nothing personal, baby,” Hayes drawled, lifting his gun and checking the bullets in the magazine.

I rolled my eyes while my brother flirted with the prey. When would he learn that playing with his food was never a good idea? He approached her while I stayed back a few paces.

Such an insolent fool does not belong in my Divine. It is he that I shall strike.

I growled, shaking my head at the whispered tone around me. The voices did not yet plague Hayes, but he didn’t have much longer to keep peace in his own mind. Everyone was already threatening my brother. When would they realize it would have to be over my dead, cold, lifeless body?

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