Page 75 of Deadly Reckoning
“Dimitri promised me he wouldn’t, we promised each other,” I growl.
Kar nods, his expression serious, “He knows. The way he treated you voided that in his mind.”
“Never,” I growl. A boom of thunder shakes the ground.
“Oh shit,” Reed mutters.
Suddenly, he’s in my eyeline, “You’re fucking stunning, by the way. Dimitri is as safe as he fucking can be considering the circumstances. He’s in an extremely secure SID prison, Casimir can’t hurt him, and he can’t hurt himself.”
I take a breath, but the storm still churns the sky as rain begins to fall, my flames completely unaffected, and lightning flashes.
Then I do something that I promised that I would never do again. I reach for his mind.
I expect some sort of resistance, so I’m surprised when I meet none at all. Almost as if he’s been keeping the line open for me.
“Neith?”Dimitri’s voice is full of shock.
“You were being controlled this whole time?”
“Yes.”He replies, and then before I can say anything else, he adds,“I’ll show you.”
My mind is flooded with images and memories. I see the Blue Fucker, I know what he ordered Dimitri to do, I see myself, and more importantly, I canfeel everything that he did. I feel the utter torment for the things that came out of his mouth, the things he said to me.
It destroyed him.
Tears track down my cheeks.
The utter, hopeless devastation that he felt is overwhelming.
I watch as Casimir makes him watch them kill me, as he sees me lying broken and bleeding, dead on the ground, and I see him snap.
A jagged smile mixes with my tears as I watch him beat the absolute shit out of Casimir.
“He doesn’t know you’re a hellhound,”I mutter.
“No.”his voice is hoarse, broken.
“You promised me, Dimitri. Fucking stay alive, Dimi, or I swear to fucking everything I’ll come after you,”I growl.“You hear me.”
His voice is nothing more than a whisper as he replies,“I hear you, Love.”
The Voices mutter and swirl inside my mind uneasily, and I have to follow my instincts even if it will destroy me later.
“I believe you,”I whisper, promptly snapping the bond closed and pulling away.
I have no idea when I closed my eyes, but when I open them, I find myself surrounded by Wallace, Winston, and Senka, all of them standing guard as the guys watch them cautiously.
“What’s going on?” I ask.
Relief fills the guys faces while Coen grins having realized what I did.
Winston spins around, “You needed to have that conversation, without interruption. It’s important.”
I nod, I agree that it was important, but I have a feeling that he means it in a different way.
“Are you okay?” River asks, his eyes moving to the tracks on my cheeks.
I nod, “He showed me everything, and I felt what he did.”
