Page 191 of Beyond the Blue Horizon
I didn’t hesitate any longer.
I jumped over him and pushed myself as hard as I could as I followed the trail back through the woods. A trail that had taken a sharp right back in the direction of the motel.
I fumbled to get my phone out of my pocket, and I blindly dialed River who lived the closest.
“Miss me already?” he razzed.
“Offender on the grounds. Jonah is down. Get everyone here now.”
“Fuck,” he spat.
He didn’t say anything else before he ended the call, and I stuffed my phone back into my jeans pocket before I fumbled into an inner pocket of my jacket and grabbed my knife.
As I hurtled through the forest, I flipped open the blade, sucking down the trail of that evil stench.
It sent a rush of barbarity coursing through my veins.
Hate and brutality amplifying.
A vicious pounding that beat through my being.
I broke through the boundary of the woods and jumped down a high embankment of snow that followed along the back side of the main parking lot.
Streetlamps glowed against the wet, blackened pavement.
I stopped for a beat to search for which way he’d gone, head whipping in every direction.
My battering heart climbed into my throat when a feeling took me over. A sense that was coming from the direction of the two cabins hidden at the back.
A crawling dread that made me sure who was there.
Pierce Renfry.
Loathing rolled through my spirit, and fury blistered beneath the surface of my skin.
My hand twitched around the hilt of my knife.
Kane was right. We should have just taken this piece of shit out. Put him in the ground before he had the chance to hurt Alicia and Lucy again.
But those chances were about to end tonight. I shot in that direction, sprinting across the lot and dodging parked cars before I bolted back into the snow and raced through the thicket of trees that separated the main parking lot from the cabins.
Harsh breaths sheared from my lungs as I forced myself as fast as I could go.
My boots sank into the snow, making my path more difficult as I dipped and labored through the trees.
Glass suddenly crashed and a scream ripped through the air.
“Shit.” It rasped out of me, then I ground to a stop when I noticed someone in the distance. I peered through the camouflage of limbs and leaves.
Pierce Renfry stood off to the side of Alicia’s porch.
He watched as another man dragged her out the door.
All his pompous depravity rolled off him as Alicia tried to break free of the other man’s hold.
No question, this assault had been planned.
The motherfucker had somehow found out where we were keeping Alicia and Lucy. The first time it had ever happened since Sovereign Sanctum had been born.
