Chapter 14 Kai #2
Because as long as she could feel his heart, it should keep her calm. At least, that’s what helped me when Cas first went rogue.
Even though I thought Cas had been a crap partner all these years, I still wanted Brandy to like him. I mean, she liked him enough to bite him, so that was something. But it needed to go deeper than that. I needed her to love him the way I loved her, and the way I hoped she loved me.
Ideally, she wouldn’t run when she saw Cas dripping in blood. Well, hopefully dripping. I wanted that bitch to suffer.
I gave Sin a nod, adjusting the gun in my hands. Aiming at a still target was totally different from sticking the gun against Sin’s head.
“Please prepare yourself, Melanie. Just remember that our priority is protecting you,” Sin said. Which was one hundred per cent true for me, but the concern oozing from Sin was for all three of us. And I was on board with that as well.
I sucked in a breath, nerves bouncing around me and tremoring in Brandy as I angled my body.
The handle of the fridge creaked in the silent kitchen as Sin pushed at the door.
It opened, revealing the wide darkness that we’d thrown Zania into. The smell of blood poured from the gap, and there was a snarl as Caspian emerged into the light.
I mean, to be honest, I probably could have used my trusty omega aura to smother him along with Brandy.
But she screamed as Caspian burst out of the refrigerator with pure red eyes and blood splattering his shirt.
“Ah, fuck it,” I said as I raised the gun.
I wouldn’t say I was completely innocent here, but there was a certain joy at watching my raging alpha suddenly tumble to the ground as I got him square in the chest with the stun gun.
He fell forward, wheezing as he reached a hand towards Brandy.
She rushed toward him, holding her arms out for him like he wasn’t some ( snarling alpha, and more like a cuddly pet for her to scoop up.
She wrapped him up, pulling his head onto her lap as she murmured to him. Brandy clutched him, stroking his back, running her fingers through his hair, choking out sobs and whines as she bent down to kiss him.
And yeah, I was pretty jealous. She’d already had a sob party over me, and it made me feel like the most special person to her. I didn’t want to share that, especially with shitty alphas who didn’t appreciate us.
“Caspian,” she called his name as her heart broke. “Caspian, please. Wake up.”
She was an omega fresh off an alpha bite, so, even when I reminded her I’d only knocked him out, he was going to be her world for a while, and he had disappeared in the bond again.
There was a sharp gasp from behind me, and I spun on one foot, instantly holding up the gun.
Vivian stood there, staring at the scene wide-eyed. I gulped as I pressed my finger on the trigger and glanced at Sin. I needed his okay to shoot this time.
“Mother,” Sin said as he moved towards her. “We can explain.”
She drew in a breath and grimaced. Anyone with a decent nose could scent the blood.
Her lips parted, and I steadied the gun before she could say another word.
“Am I going to have to use this?” I asked, looking her straight in the eye. I’d do whatever it took to make sure that they were safe, even if it meant stunning Sin’s mum so hard she’d have a heart attack.
“There’s no need,” she said, scanning the scene with a hard look. “I believe I heard the whole story from Zania, but it appears she left out a few key details.”
Her gaze danced over the blood staining Caspian’s suit. “Where is she?”
I nodded to the fridge behind us, and she pressed her lips hard together.
“It was fast,” Sin said, edging closer.
“That is a shame. Because Lily said that it was not so fast for Camille.”
I cocked a brow as I looked between the two of them, but now wasn’t the time to ask for a fucking explanation. I needed to figure out if we could actually trust her.
Vivian gave me a hard look I’d never seen before in a woman who always acted like she’d get knocked down by a breeze.
“There is a back door twenty metres from here. I’ve parked a car outside.
The keys are still in the ignition, so please take your pack somewhere safe while Lily and I handle the minor details. ”
She stepped past us, and I followed her sharply with the barrel. If she even thought about touching Brandy, I would shoot her right in the fucking face. I just wished it had real bullets.
But she sailed past us, poking her head into the fridge. I went with her just to make sure the bitch was dead.
Vivian paled when I entered. The harsh electric light of the industrial fridge didn’t shadow any of the details. Though there were rows of shelves and meat hanging at the back of the fridge, it was the pool of blood that had splattered high and wide that pulled our attention.
“Gosh,” Vivian said, and I glanced at her.
“Your best friend just got murdered, and that’s all you have to say?” I asked her.
“When did I ever say she was my friend?” Vivian asked coldly, in a voice so cutting that I wouldn’t have believed it was her if I didn’t hear it come from her own mouth.
She was rigid, coldness in her eyes, looking nothing like the dithery woman who did whatever Zania wanted because she was so nervous she could never stay still.
In fact, it was the first time I saw where Sin got his shitty attitude from.
“What will you do?” I asked. I couldn’t see us getting out of this one.
“That’s not your concern. Go back to your mates,” she ordered, and I low-key respected the way she walked over to Zania and knelt down.
It was kind of hard to look at Zania. Triumph soared through me as soon as her neck cracked.
I’d imagined killing her so many times, but seeing her mangled body on the cold concrete floor of the fridge was just sad.
Like, all of that, all those fucking years of hell where I had to hide myself and be beaten down and live day after day knowing that she could come after me at any moment, and that was it?
A broken body, her face and chest caved in, arms at awkward angles, and still as the pool slowly grew. That was what she amounted to?
I clicked my teeth as I turned back and left the fridge. I knew for sure now that we’d never see her again, but that didn’t mean I could relax.
By that point, Sin was already next to Cas and Brandy, and was easing Brandy away so he could pick up our mate.
“You’ll have to take care of her again,” he said to me as he grabbed Cas and heaved him up. Cas weighed a ton on a good day, and Sin’s muscles creaked at the strain.
I could hear Vivian’s voice echoing from the refrigerator room, but it was minor compared to getting us all to safety.
“You must be exhausted,” I murmured to Brandy, sighing in relief as I held her again. I was never letting her go, not after all that.
She was limp in my arms, and I needed to get her to the car so I could just love her without any drama.
“When we get back to my nest, I’ll make sure that everything is perfect, okay?
I can get us some new paints, and there’s a glittery purple fabric I want to try out that will go great with your ass.
I think we should go shopping to buy new bedsheets as well.
I mean, that’s if you want to use my bed.
We can bring another bed to my nest and—-” I kept blabbering as we walked, hoping that it would fill up the heavy silence of what had just happened.
I didn’t have time to process the fact I almost lost her.
Because the sheer anguish of holding Brandy as she faded in front of my eyes was so terrifying that I wanted to chain myself to her, so I made sure she could never leave me.
“We can set up my nest just how you like it. Or we can run you a bath and get you soaked. I’ve got these amazing bubbles that smell just like Sin. Or we can watch a movie, or I can read to you. There’s even some audiobooks you might like.”
She twitched at that, so I thought that was the answer, but her gaze stayed fixed on Cas in front of us as Sin dragged him towards the back door.
The last thing we heard as we left the restaurant was a high-pitched scream that tore through the place, and I took a breath, praying that Lily and Vivian knew what the hell they were doing.