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Bennett jumped up onto the counter and his huge blue eyes turned toward me. He growled at the top of his lungs.
Chapter 33
Tuesday
Huxley pulled me toward the front doors of the bank. “You need to go. Now.”
Bennett growled at the top of his lungs.
Huxley stepped in front of me.
“Get her out of here!” Titan yelled as he grabbed the pocket watch off the ground and tried to control Bennett again.
But I was frozen in place staring at Bennett. He was…a…a werecat. He was a monster. They all were. Even Huxley, who was standing there trying to protect me from a monster just like him.
And that pocket watch Huxley claimed to need didn’t do a damned thing to control them. I stared at the blood on Bennett’s chest where Otto had swiped at him. They were vicious. Uncontrollable. Violent.
Bennett jumped off the counter and prowled toward us.
“Run, Emma!” Huxley yelled as he opened up the doors for me.
He didn’t need to tell me again. I ran right out of that bank and down the front steps. The door closed behind me, but I started running even faster past the cute shops that had just added to the façade tricking my head.
Bennett was a fucking werecat! And that meant paranormal creatures did actually exist. Which meantBennett might be telling the truth about Callum too.Shit.
I sprinted toward Zoey’s house. Five werecats, a vampire, and a serial killer were hanging out in this town. It sounded like the start of a bad joke. But it was real. All of it.
And I was getting the hell out of Crooked Point.
I pushed open Zoey’s white picket fence. I knew all this shit was shady.I freaking knew it.Even though I was completely out of breath, I ran up to her front door and banged on it.
She opened it almost immediately. “Oh my God, what happened? You look like a hot mess.”
Rude.“Bennett and his friends are…” I started choking. “They’re all…” I hunched over, but not from the sudden cramp in my side. But because I physically couldn’t keep going. “Bennett is…” I dry heaved.
“Is what?!” Zoey grabbed my arm and helped me inside. “What the hell happened? Jesus, Emma, you’re bleeding!”
I looked down at my hand. The tissue in my palm was covered with blood. Zoey grabbed a few more and exchanged them for the dirty one.
I closed my hand into a fist.
“Did Bennett cut you?!”
“Yes. I had to take a…” I started dry heaving again. Okay…so…the blood oath I’d taken was real. Because of course it was. Because paranormal creatures existed and so did magic and this town was fucking cursed! I couldn’t tell her any of it. I physically couldn’t. It felt like my insides were twisting every time I even tried.
But she had to know. She needed to get out of here too. “Zoey, we have to leave. They’re all…” I hunched over again. “They’re…ahhh!” I screamed.
“Calm down, I think you’re hallucinating,” Zoey said. “Here, come sit down.”
“No. I’m leaving.” I stood up straight. “We’re leaving. Now.”
“What? Why?”
“Because this town is insane!”
“You can’t leave. It’s almost midnight. You just need some rest…”
“I don’t need rest. I need a flight.” I grabbed my phone and started searching for flights for two. I’d drag her out of this creepy white picket fence town even if she put up a fight. It was for her own good. She was surrounded by monsters and I couldn’t tell her any of it. I just needed us to get out.
