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The two women entered the room, and I wondered which one was the bitch that was about to die.
“Val? What’s going on?”
“I don’t know, Magyk. Amber took off, and King called us. We don’t know where she is.” Magyk placed a hand on Val’s shoulder. The other one looked at Rose, then me.
The moment she saw the rage in my eyes, she knew her time was up. Her throat bobbed as she swallowed. Blade, Jack, and Ghost all moved as one as they stood in front of the door, blocking the only exit.
Got you, bitch.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Kytten
I heard the prospect say she was here. Heard King tell him to bring her in. I squeezed Melissa’s hand, and she turned to study my face. She saw it immediately. The secret I had been hiding.
There was something in her eyes, something familiar. Something dark that made me wonder if she and I were more alike than I had realized.
I couldn’t look at any of them. I felt the love from the club. But I was still ashamed of what I had let her do to me. The way I had let her manipulate me and control me. The way I had clung to the monsters, letting them convince me that hiding was better.
“Kytten,” Torment called out. “Would you like to start?”
I shook my head. “I can’t,” I whispered, my eyes pleading with Melissa. I knew I had been awful to her. The way I spoke to her about her relationship with Val’s granddaughter.
But she was here.
Holding my hand.
Helping me battle the monsters.
I could feel the rage in Cash’s body. It rolled off him in waves the minute Syrena walked in the room. The monsters fed off the tension in his body.
“Cash,” Melissa said, her eyes never leaving mine. Holding me hostage, preventing me from running out of the room. “I need you to calm down.”
“Fuck that.”
My eyes welled at his words. His anger for what I went through gave me strength. He was barely holding on, and so was I. Together we were about to explode. Me, with shame and panic, while he was filled with rage and murder.
I knew that was what he was thinking. He told me so when he learned what she had done.
“Brother.” Jingles stood behind us, one hand on Cash’s shoulder, the other on Thorne’s. His attempt to hold them both back would be comical if it weren’t so tragic.
“Kytten,” Val softly called my name. “Sweetheart, what happened?”
“Do you want me to tell them?” Melissa asked. I wanted to say yes. But I knew I had to do it.
“She has to do this, Melissa,” Dr. Dunaway said.
“She can’t, Torment.”
“She can. She’s stronger than she thinks.”
They were talking about me as if I weren’t there. I didn’t want to be there. I wanted to be anywhere but in this room.
“Kytten.” The sound of my name coming from Syrena’s mouth was like a bomb going off in my head. Cash growled beneath me. His body vibrated with anger and something darker.
“Ask me again,” I said softly to Melissa.
She tilted her head as if she were seeing something for the first time. Something she couldn’t quite grasp.
