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“Don’t fucking hurt him!” Heath screams.

Ivy jumps into the fray too to protect them, and I just can’t keep track of who’s fighting with who.

Near the road, a bunch of vans come to a shrieking halt, and the back doors slam open as dozens of suited-up and decked-out men waltz out, guns at the ready.

Oh God. Mom’s men are here.

CHAPTER 65

Apollo

“Apollo!”Aspen’s angelic voice calls me from the woods, where she and Grey hide behind a tree stump from Levi’s mom and her gang of killer boyfriends. Aspen points at the vans on the road, along with the gun-sporting men who just came pouring out.

Penelope’s yell fills the air. “Find Levi! Bring him to me!”

Wait a fucking minute.

That’s not family. They’re only here to kill Levi.

And Aspen just begged me to save him.

A wicked smile spreads on my face.

Free meat.

I bolt toward the van, dodging a stray bullet, before I ram right into them like a fucking bull they couldn’t prepare for. “Yeehaw!” I punch the guy in the face until his nose is mangled and his eyes pop out, then throw him aside.

One of them jumps me, and I grab him off my back and swing him into the crowd of men. Three of them fall on top of each other, and when one of them wraps their hands around me, I grab hold, fling him over my head, and stomp on his face until his skull cracks on the pavement.

“He’s a monster!” one of them screams. “Kill him!”

But the men are meek, like scared little lambs facing the wolf.

I grin, waiting until at least one of them dares to step closer. “Who wants to die next?”

With a quick move, I steal his gun, aim it at his own belly, and shoot.

BANG!

Two guys aim at me, so I grab the guy’s body and hold it up as bullet-fodder until they’ve wasted all of their ammo, then I discard him like trash. I lunge at the first one in sight, grab him by the skull, and shove him into another guy’s helmet until they’re both smashed into the van. I snatch a big, fat knife from his hand and thrust it into both of them, skewering them alive, as blood splatters everywhere.

I laugh like a maniac because I’ve never felt more elated in my life.

“Yes, yes, yes! This is what I live for!”

One of them jumps on my back and tries to hit me with his empty gun, while the others scramble to find more bullets to load, but I tear him off me and toss him into the crowd too, then storm right at them before they even have the chance to reload.

I grasp the wrists of an unsuspecting fucker while he’s trying to grab his gun, and I twist them until they crack and splinter on all sides, breaking his bones. He screeches as I rip out one of the bones with my bare hands and shove it into his chest, straight through his heart.

I steal a knife from someone’s pocket and ram it into his eye socket, tearing it out only to ram it into the next one’s eye, shoving them both back into the van so I can pin them to the metal and make a nice fucking work of art out of the corpses of those who tried to hurt my family.

No onefucking touches my family.

And when Aspen calls … I will heed.

Aspen

“Holy shit,”Grey mutters, gulping at the sight of Apollo’s onslaught.

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