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“Close,” she said with a smirk. Then she lunged at me with a scalpel.
Still on the ground, I kicked out at her as she neared. She slammed into the counter behind her and cried out, before she came at me again. I quickly scrambled to my feet, ready to faceher. As she came for me again, I sidestepped her and let her run into the sink behind me.
But she spun faster than I expected and tried to slash my cheek. I jumped back, sliding in the blood puddle and tumbling backwards, my boots slipping on the floor. When I landed, that’s when I saw him.
Surge.His body lay behind the work island, motionless, his throat slashed and blood still draining from the wound. I crawled to him, heart pounding, using the work island to keep distance between me and Jade’s body. I pressed my hand to his throat and his eyes fluttered, but he couldn’t speak. His eyes widened when he looked behind me.
Knowing what was most likely coming, I jerked my forearm upward, which blocked her from slitting my throat. She jammed the scalpel into my arm instead. Ignoring the pain, I grabbed a stool and threw it up at her. As she dodged that, I lunged for her, taking her down.
We fought in the blood, until I had her pinned and supine beneath me.
Her face was smeared crimson, her grin twisted as she purred in a sultry tone, “Now’s as good a time as any to fuck me, Malice.”
I managed to grab a length of thin gold chain Surge used for spells and tied it around her wrists before I dragged her to her feet and threw her into a chair. She tried to get up, but I was faster and stronger, quickly wrapping more of the chain around her chest and legs to bind her to the chair the best I could.
She thrashed, snarling at me. Surge’s jet injectors were still perfectly organized on the countertop, so I took the one marked “sedation” and shot her with it three times before I knelt to Surge and shouted for help.
CHAPTER 21
Tiger
Discord threw the bedroom door open and screamed, “Surge’s lab, now!” Then she ran.
I’d already woken, taken a quick shower, and had just tossed some pants on with the intention of finding out how Jade was faring, so I ran barefoot and bare chested to Surge’s lab at the other side of the mansion.
The door was half open. Blood was everywhere…on Jade, on the floor, splattered across the walls. Jade was listless, tied to a chair. Her head bobbed loosely.
All I could see was Jade, and horror surged through me. I ran to her, trying not to slip in the blood, desperately looking for wounds. I shook her, trying to make her come around, but she had lost too much blood.
“Stay with me,” I shouted at her in a panic.
“She’s fine!” Mal snarled from the floor behind her.
“She’s covered in blood—”
“I know, I did it, help—”
I turned and lunged for him, throwing him against the countertop, filled with insanity at the thought of losing Jade. “What did you do?” I roared, my voice raw and savage.
“She’s fine, Tiger,” Discord screamed. “Get down here!”
I looked to where she was, and now that Mal wasn’t over him, I could see it. Tiny little Surge was on the floor, his throat slashed wide open. I leapt down to them, knees skidding on more blood, trying to make sense of what had happened.
“Jet injector marked ‘coagulant’,” Discord ordered sharply.
Mal grabbed the right one off the counter and shoved it into her hand. She plunged it into Surge’s neck and the wound instantly stopped seeping.
“Should I use this for Jade?” I asked, still frantic.
“That’s notherblood.” Discord’s voice broke as she ransacked a medical kit on the floor next to her. “It’shis. She attacked Surge.”
She used something that looked like a hand cannon and shot his wound with it. Where she’d shot, the tissue started to rebuild.
What Discord said made no sense. “Jade…why would she—”
“I don’t know,” she growled.
Mal handed her another one of those medical hand cannons. “I think I know,” he said, his eyes dark with worry. “Petal, the dead caretaker, I think she possessed her.”
