chapter 112 Ten


    “I know she is here.” I can hear Meranda choking and Lisa nudges me with her foot.


    “You have three seconds toe out, Evelyn, or I kill your friend,” Thaddeus growls out before


    hearing the sound of chairs moving and the bell going off as people run from the cafe. Standing up, I


    walk out of the kitchen. Thaddeus has Meranda by the throat, letting her go when I walk out and she


    stumbles back clutching her throat, her red hair half pulled from its bun. She had tears on her cheeks. I


    felt so guilty. I shouldn’t have run, or at least shouldn’t havee here. But where did I have to go? I


    was hoping they wouldn’t make a scene here, seeing as it is a pretty popr cafe on this side of town.


    Thaddeus moved around the counter before reaching for me and ripping me towards him, making


    me stumble into his chest. His hand going into my hair as he yanks my head back, making me cry out.


    “You’re going to regret running,” he growls below my ear before tugging me and shoving me


    toward Orion.


    “Now, all their deaths will be on your hands,” Thaddeus bellows before his eyes go ck. And the


    air thickens, the lights flickering. At first I was confused until the windows starting bursting. Orion


    shoving me to the ground, and Rnd ducks down also, dropping over the top of me. Gun fire sounds


    from every direction, and I watched horrified as Thaddeus gets hit in the chest and shoulder. He growls


    loudly before walking through the door and heading outside. I cover my ears. The noise is deafening,


    and I could just make out Lisa screaming hysterically. When suddenly the ground moves like a wave


    and I hear metal on metal and the sound of buildings exploding before suddenly everything goes silent,


    eerily so.


    Smoke and dust fills the cafe, and I can hear electricity zapping loudly. I hear a crash and look up


    just in time to see the roof in the kitchen copse in on itself. Lisa screaming for Meranda, sobbing


    loudly. I try to see where she is but can’t see her through the dust and smoke. rms are going off in


    neighbouring shops. Car rms ring loudly outside, hear people screaming. I try to get up when


    Rnd shoves me back down before rolling me over onto my back.


    His eyes pitch ck orbs and his canines protruding. “You shouldn’t have run,” he said so calmly I


    shivered by the coldness of his voice. I hear the crunching of ss, making me squint into the dust.


    Thaddeus boots stop next to my face. Rnd hops off me, and Thaddeus grips the cor of my shirt,


    yanking me to my feet. I cough on the dust when the shrill sound of Lisa screaming hysterically hits my


    ears, making me look in her direction. I can’t see her but recognise the blue shoes and legs of Meranda


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    behind the counter.


    Getting out of Thaddeus’s grip, I run over to them and see that Meranda has been shot in the


    stomach. Lisa''s hands putting pressure on the wound as she bleeds out on the floor.


    “No, no, no” I scream, dropping to the floor. This is my fault.


    “Oriones over trying to pull me to my feet, but I grip onto Meranda, refusing to let go.


    “No, please help her,” I tell him, but he continues trying to pry my finger from her arm. Thaddeus


    growls loudly before walking over and gripping me and ripping me away from her. I try to fight him off


    as he drags me away, kicking and screaming. “Please, please help her.”


    “No, you did this. I warned you not to run. Rnd and Orion warned you not to run,” Thaddeus


    screamed in my face.


    “Please, Thaddeus. Help her. I will do what you want just please don’t let my friend die because of


    me.”


    Thaddeus growls and was about to pull me away when Rnd speaks. “He helps her, you let him


    mark you.”


    “What?” I say, looking over my shoulder.


    “Your friend is about to die, choose, Evelyn,” he says, and Thaddeus shakes me, making me look


    at him.


    “What’s it going to be, choose.”


    “Evelyn please,” Lisa sings out to me.


    I nod, “Please help her” I beg, and Thaddeus lets me go before walking over to her. Following him


    over, Lisa jumps back, moving out of his way. I watch as he bites into his wrist and ces it over her


    mouth. When he pulls his hand away, he then shoves his finger into the bullet hole and I scream,


    rushing over.


    “You’re killing her!” Meranda groans in pain.


    “Move, I am helping her. She won’t heal with the bullet still in her,” he growls before Orion pulls me


    back. He drops the bullet on the ground before lifting her shirt. The bullet hole closes before my eyes


    and Meranda takes a deep breath like she has been under water for a while. Her eyes snapping open,


    and she crawls away from him in fear although he just saved her. Thaddeus growls before standing up


    and yanking me from Orion.


    “Wait, stop,” I call out to him as he pulls me toward the door. Thaddeus growls before tossing me


    over his shoulder, kicking and screaming.


    Kicking, wanting to go back to my friends, I felt his hande down on my ass. The p stinging


    and I feel his handprint bruising. “Enough Evelyn, we need to leave,” he growls before cing me on


    the ground and grabbing my wrist. Looking around, I gasp.


    The entire street was in ruins, a car even impaled on a light pole. Bodies strewn everywhere and


    the road was split down the middle, buildings on fire and torn to pieces. It looked like a hurricane had


    swept through the city, destroying everything in its path. When suddenly I see Orion grab me. The


    sound of wind rushing around me and I struggle to breathe from the pressure. Everything moves by in


    a blur of destruction. I felt myself bing dizzy from the motion and was on the verge of passing out


    when he suddenly stopped, knocking the little air in my lungs out of me. Orion ced me on my feet,


    and I copsed, the ground rushing towards me as my body went limp.


    “Shit,” Orion yells, scoping me up in his arms. He ces me on something soft and as soon as my


    body touched it, I lurched forward, throwing up. Orion jumped back, and I barely missed him. He pulls


    my hair from my face, my ears ringing loudly. Something cold touches my face and my eyes snap open


    as I flop back onto what they ced me on. When the dizziness subsides, I look around and find we


    are back in the apartment. Rnd is cleaning the floor beside me with a towel.


    Thaddeuses into my line of vision and res down at me.


    “Grab her. Rnd grab the bags in the room with me.” Orion scoops me up and starts walking. The


    motion making my stomach turn and the dizziness to return before I am ced on leather, and I realise


    I am in a car. Orion then leaves and I slide onto my side before I feel hands grip my shoulders making


    my eyes open and I see Thaddeus sit beside me cing my head on hisp. Hearing car doors close


    before I feel the car start. Thaddeus brushes my hair out of my face, and I feel myself slipping into the


    darkness of unconsciousness.