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"If you'd killed her I would have been angry," he told me as he stepped closer. His hand slipped into the inside of the jacket of his suit and he pulled out a syringe filled with some liquid.
I knew it didn't matter what that liquid was, but I couldn't let him inject it into me.
"It would have annoyed me if I would have had to replace her," he said calmly as he stepped closer.
He was a monster; any doubt that I might have had evaporated. He didn't care about Keri. She was just another soldier in his army. I felt a moment's sympathy for the girl lying unconscious on the floor. I couldn't imagine what it would have been like being raised by someone as evil as Victor.
"I'm going to inject you with wolfsbane and then I'm going to take you away until I've taken over the additional territories," he told me. "Cade will be dead and you will belong only to me."
My heart squeezed at his words. I didn't want to live if I had to do it without Cade. It wasn't something I could comprehend. He had to stay alive and he had to be safe.
I was out of time and I was out of options but there was no way I was going to let Victor take me without a fight. Without another thought I lurched forward, taking him by surprise. I grabbed the syringe from his hand and slammed it into his knee and pushed the liquid into his body.
He grabbed both my arms and threw me down onto the floor like I was a rag doll. I landed with a thud and rolled onto my back, struggling to catch my breath.
He shook his head at me slowly as he pulled the syringe from his leg without flinching and dropped it to the floor.
"You really shouldn't have done that." He said it so coolly that it scared me.
"It's a good thing I don't need to shift into my wolf form to teach you a lesson," he told me in a deadly calm tone as he walked to me and picked me up by my arms.
Even though he couldn't shift, he was still strong enough to tear me apart limb by limb and there was little I could do to defend myself.
Fuck!
But even in a situation where the odds were stacked against me, I wasn't going to lie down and take it. I was going to fight with every last breath I had.
His fist connected with my mid-section and I stumbled backward. The next hit to my face, which connected with the back of his hand, sent me stumbling backward, making me lose my footing and I fell. I landed on the floor, winding me of the breath in my lungs. My back ached from the hard landing and I rolled onto my chest to try and get to my feet before he landed another blow.
I didn't see his foot until it connected with my stomach and I screamed as pain exploded in my abdomen. I rolled onto my back, clutching the damaged tissue.
"I will break you and then I will build you up again. You will do as I say or you will face the consequences," he said as he picked me up again and set me down on unsteady feet. There was no doubt in my mind that consequences meant death.
"Fuck you," I spat at him. His eyes darkened with anger.
His fist hit my stomach and I bent over gasping, my arms across my abdomen. As I lifted my determined gaze to his, he backhanded me and I landed on the floor.
I tasted blood in my mouth as I groaned in pain. None of my training had prepared me for the absolute ruthlessness of this monster.
My eyes landed on the still form of Keri. Had he broken her to build her back up like he was trying to do to me? Realizing how evil Victor was I couldn’t help feel a little sympathy for Keri even though she’d betrayed us.
"Have you had enough?" he taunted as he took pride in surveying my injuries.
Somehow, I rolled onto my hands and knees and I pulled myself up again.
"You should have stayed down," he said with a sigh as he stepped forward.
My stomach hurt so bad I couldn't stand up straight and my face throbbed with pain but I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of staying down.
I thought about Cade and how much I loved him. I prayed that he and the rest of my loved ones were safe.
I was no match for Victor but I couldn't bow my head to him to save my life. I couldn't let him take me because I would never survive. I made the decision there and then to go out fighting.
"Was that the best you could do?" I taunted at him.
I hoped that it would be over soon. His eyes darkened as he took a menacing step closer.
"No...I can do much better than that," he promised with a cruel smile as his hands tightened into fists.
