They step away but their gazes don’t leave me.
“You okay, Pipsqueak?”
I roll my eyes at him and say, “Fine. Never better. My sister made her choice, and I made mine.”
The man who rarely smiles, does for me.
“I’m proud of you. Everything Knox and Carter gathered at your request is in the field waiting for you. I threw the prod in the bag for you too.”
“Thank you.”
“Anything for family,” he says, and I shove all the feelings that brings down deep. Now is not the time for any emotion other than fury.
Chapter Seventeen
KILLIAN
We’ve seen her pissed. We’ve seen her kill. But we’ve never seen her like this. As she spoke to Grave, it was like she was channeling all the pain he ever caused her.
As he kneels in a field, crying out from her repeated attacks, I can’t say I’ve ever seen anything more beautiful.
“Such a strong man, Gabriel.”
She giggles, taunting him.
“But then, it’s easy to be strong against a weak little girl.”
Heather holds her hand out and smiles at Carter.
“Cattle prod.”
Grabbing it from the ground he hands it to her. She turns it on and places the end against Graves' balls.
“Come on. Don’t do this. You’re a good girl, Heather. This isn’t you.”
Her eyes darken as the rage inside her grows to a snapping point.
“Those are two words I never want to hear from you again. If I do, I’ll cut your fucking dick off.”
She zaps him in the nuts with 9,000 volts, and he lands on his back screaming. This is why we chose this location, far fromcivilization. We knew this self-proclaimed badass would cry like a pussy.
Turning to Bones she asks, “How attached are you to this thing?”
He gazes at her, confusion filling his eyes as he shrugs.
“I’m not. Consider it a gift.”
None of us have a clue what she’s planning until it happens.
“Lie on your stomach.”
With a groan he does as he’s told.
“On your knees.”
Knox and I exchange a glance, both of us thinking the same thing.
She wouldn’t.