Total pages in book: 187
Estimated words: 184867 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 924(@200wpm)___ 739(@250wpm)___ 616(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 184867 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 924(@200wpm)___ 739(@250wpm)___ 616(@300wpm)
They even brought Felix, Dylan, Alistair from the Skull & Serpent Society, as well as their fucking girlfriend Penelope to help save her.
I really don’t want to be on any of these fuckers’ bad sides, so I’ll play along nicely. Even though they accused me of something I didn’t even fucking do.
Man, the things a guy does for a friendship that’s already sailed long ago.
When the car finally stops, we’re near a grimy looking building downtown. I’m surprised these Skull & Serpent Society fuckers know exactly where one of their hangouts is. But whatever.
I just want to get in, get out, and stay alive.
We fetch our weapons and prepare, and I can already feel myself getting fired up because I’m about to put some bullets in Bonesmen heads. When it’s finally time to move inside the compound, I grin and pull out my gun, taking off the safety. “Okay, guess it’s time for our little showdown.”
Present
I pull out my knife and stab one of the fuckers in the chest, pulling it out before I move on to the next. It’s a game of cat and mouse with these Bonesmen and a delicious way to let go of all the rage I’ve kept bottled up.
I take a glance at Nathan while we knife down these fuckers left and right, trying to see who has the biggest body count. Halfway through the compound, we get separated from the main group, but at least I have Nathan. He might be an ass for making me his enemy, but at least he knows how to kill.
“I’m gonna go back to Kai and Milo and see if they found Lana yet,” Nathan yells at me after we’ve taken down a dozen more men.
“Fine, I’ll secure the entrance,” I reply.
“Felix and the others are there too,” Nathan replies before leaving.
The Skull & Serpent Society guys are with me, shooting Bonesmen left and right to clear a path for everyone so we can make our way out again after they’ve found Lana.
What’s taking them so long?
“I’m going back in,” I tell them. “Guard the exit.”
I run back into the hallway where Kai, Milo, and Nathan are, and lock eyes with a girl with long, black hair, covered in blood.
One of the Bonesmen comes out of nowhere, aiming at Kai, so I shoot him down. “I have you covered. Don’t worry.”
“Who is that?” the girl with the long black hair asks.
“Caleb. Long story,” Milo says. “We should run.”
Suddenly, more shots go off, and Nathan jumps in front of Lana, shielding her from the fire, and the bullet lodges in his body.
“Nathan!” she screams.
Kai and I fight off the Bonesmen with everything we have, and I chuck around knives like a madman while Milo and Lana focus on stopping Nathan’s wounds from bleeding out.
Suddenly, the girl with the long black hair pulls out her own knives and starts chopping up all the men in front of us like a butcher, cutting away at them with expert slices like she’s never done anything but kill since she was pushed out of her mother’s womb, and for a moment, I’m too flabbergasted to even fight.
My God, that woman’s got skills.
She kills the Bonesmen one by one, until only their leader, Romeo, is left and on his knees, blood pouring from a wound in his abdomen. He whimpers as she pushes a knife straight into his eye, and I wince from how disgusting it looks.
Jesus.
In the big open space behind Romeo, rows and rows of chairs are all thrown about as though the people who were here left in a hurry, and I look beyond at a stage.
What the … was this an auction?
To the left of the stage is a big door that’s wide open.
And two burly guards manhandle people into the van. Boys. Girls.
But one particular blond-haired girl with pink lips and rosy cheeks makes all the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
“Crystal?” I yell in disbelief.
CALEB
She turns to look at Lana and then me.
What the fuck is going on?
How is she here?
But then she’s shoved into the van.
I storm past Lana, headed straight for the door … right when the van races off.
“FUCK!” I scream, losing my goddamn fucking soul along with it as the van’s gone before I even manage to step one foot outside.
I try to run after it, but it’s no use.
I won’t ever catch up on foot.
“No, no, no!” I mutter, sinking to the ground outside, still clutching my knives, my only tether to this world before I tear it all to shreds.
These fucking Bonesmen have the only girl I ever loved, and now I’ll never fucking see her again.
How could this happen?
How dare they steal her away from me?
“You, you’re one of them.” The voice behind me makes me turn around.
Anger gets the best of me, and I roar out loud as I kill a guard, ramming the knife straight into his neck before I cut it off entirely and let the head roll across the street.