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This was as bad of an idea as coming here in the first place. But there was this small piece of me that trusted Bennett. I didn’t think he’d hurt me. “Okay.”
Bennett kept my hand in his as Titan lowered the blade against my palm.
I whimpered as he sliced my skin. That hurt more than just a little.
I waited for one of them to pounce on me and kill me.
But neither of them did.
“Wrap your hand around the hilt,” Titan said and placed the knife in my hand.
I did what he said. And blue writing erupted on the golden blade. If I blinked I would have missed it. But it was the first magic I had truly seen. It was real. All of it was. I looked up at Bennett. This probably meant Callum really was a vampire. And whatever it was they were about to show me was bad. Really really bad. I gulped.
Titan lifted the knife out of my hand. “Okay. It’s done.” He tossed the knife across the room and somehow Huxley caught it by the handle instead of the blade.
Huxley wiped my blood off and then put it back in his pocket like none of this was at all strange.
Bennett put a tissue against my palm and closed it into a fist. “Are you alright?”
I felt a little light headed. But I just nodded.
Bennett dropped my hand. He turned to Titan. “I’m ready,” he said. He grabbed the pocket watch out of his front pocket and tossed it to Titan. And then Bennett pulled his shirt off.
What was happening?
Titan put the watch in his pocket, cracked his neck to the side, and stepped closer to Bennett. And then he punched Bennett square in the jaw.
Chapter 32
Tuesday
“What are you doing?!” I screamed. Why had Titan just punched Bennett?
“Emma, stay back,” Bennett said. But he didn’t lift his hands to defend himself as Titan landed another hard punch on the side of his face.
“Bennett!”
He spit some blood out onto the marble flood and still just stood there. He lifted his hands in the air and gestured for Titan to go again. Like he wanted to be hit.
Titan punched him right in the stomach.
Bennett groaned and hunched over. He spit more blood out onto the floor.
“Stop it!” I yelled. “What the hell are you guys doing?!”
“We can’t control it,” Bennett said.
“Titan can definitely control hitting you.” I stepped between them. “Stop it right now.” I shoved his chest. But he didn’t move an inch.
“Doll, you need to step back.”
“Stop hitting him, Titan.”
He smiled down at me. “Would you rather?”
I just stared at him. “Of course not.”
“Then step back.”
