Page 218 of Boys Who Hunt

She pauses midair. “What?”

“Check my phone if you don’t believe me. Ivan already told him everything he needs to know … Stefano is coming.”

Her whole face turns white as snow.

THWACK!

She hits him right in the head, knocking him out.

THWACK!

THWACK!

Blood oozes from his ears, but she keeps hitting him over and over until nothing is left except her anger slowly flooding out of her like the blood leaving her victims.

Her breathing comes out in ragged breaths when she stops, her clothes completely soaked through with blood as she chucks the bat aside.

Fuck.

Yes.

This is the one.

The one thing that can make my dead heart tick.

Ivy

Two people,gone within an instant.

Wiped off this planet with the strength of my own two hands.

I stare at their mangled bodies and the onslaught I left behind.

I swore I would do anything to protect her, and I did.

Honest to the devil … a murderer of his making.

My darkened eyes find Silas’s lethal eyes from across the room, the red hue of annihilation flickering behind them, finally feeling familiar.

So this is what it’s like to become a monster.

I wipe the blood off my face with the back of my hand. “Happy now?”

A proud fire rages in his eyes. “Well done.”

“Is this what you wanted? To turn her into a fucking killer?” Max grits, as he barges at Silas and grabs his shirt. “You had no right.”

Silas jerks free from his grip with ease. “She wanted this.”

Maybe I did.

But could I ever say it out loud like he so proudly does?

“Bullshit,” Max growls. “You did this for you.”

Silas laughs in his face. “So what if I did? I do what I want, when I want. No one controls me.”

Max shoves Silas forward, clearly upset he put me in this position.