Page 44 of Blood Owed (Blood Mafia 1)
“Impossible,” I whisper, staring at the woman in shock.
She watches me with fearful eyes—wide as saucers and filled with tears.
What is she thinking?
Does she know?
They were all dead. Nix killed them all.
Demi’s not possible.
Hunters are extinct; Nix made sure of it. Almost thirty years have passed since that night.
“Please, don’t.”
Her words tug at emotions I don’t want to feel. Then I understand what she thinks is about to happen. I glare at the slip the maid put her in. Why did she choose this of all the clothes she had to choose from?
I straighten my shoulders and stand tall. “I wouldnever,” I say earnestly. Placing my hand over my undead heart, I repeat the words. “I would never.”
She relaxes, just barely, before scrunching her face. “Why won’t you kill me? Stop prolonging it.”
“I don’t want to kill you.”
A tear slips down her cheek, the first I’ve seen. “You have to.”
I shake my head.
“You can’t keep me tied up forever. You can’t,” she says the words so fiercely, almost as if she believes them.
I can do whatever I want.
“Yes, Demi. I can. Especially now that I’ve tasted you. You don’t even know how dangerous you are.”
She screams for her death as I leave the room and close the door.
I won’t give her death. I planned on keeping her alive for a while, letting her grow to regret the way she spoke to me.
Tasting her blood has changed everything.
Demi is a Hunter.
A natural born killer.
She’s only twenty-four; she hasn’t reached her full potential, but it explains so much. Why she was able to stab Chelsea and fight Colt and Grayson with such ease. She’s awakening and doesn’t even know it.
My eyes narrow as I jam my finger into the call button for the elevator.
If she’s here, it means there are more of her kind. Which means they know where we are and it’s only a matter of time before they come to kill us all.
Grayson
“Are you sure?” Colt asks Mateo.
I’m careful to control the looks I give Mateo. It hasn’t been easy to be around him today. Not after he beat Colt and me over and over the night before. He says it’s to teach us a lesson, but I know him too well to fall for that.
Demi’s gotten under his skin. I don’t know what the little devil said to him. Whatever it was, she got him riled up, and he used our disobedience as an excuse to lose control.
Sure, the plan went south and our squadron ended up dead and so did the alpha. Demi didn’t die as intended, but the beta challenging the alpha actually worked in our favor. Now we didn’t have to deal with the blow back that would have come with killing the wolves. Hopefully, those that survived were smart enough to keep their mouths shut, otherwise we’d be going head to head with the wolves very soon.
