I was too distracted to realise the trap when another video popped up on the web afterward. A video that was intentionally uploaded, knowing sat rise irand ind my way into the dub. They were draving men, they could take me out.

"You cost me a little girl, Z," the bitch says from behind me.

"Sounds like you knew that was a risk?" I counter, a tad breathless it hurt to even fucking breathe, and the pain is growing by the second.

The little girl who was offered up to me and three other men on the altar had been taken out of here, hopefully before the explosion. entrusted her safety with one of my men, Michael, and I haven't heard from him yet.

"Both of you—up. You're coming with me."

"I may be a tad fucked up at the moment, but don't expect me not to kill you the first chance I get," I warn, nearly groaning when my back spasms. Fuck me, more than anything, I wish this shit were like in the movies where getting blasted by a bomb and proceeding to save the world directly after was possible.

"You're not going to do that, Z. You want to know why?"

I freeze, a sinking feeling already forming in the pit of my stomach. It's like the mouth of Jaws just opened up, and my heart is the unsuspecting swimmer about to get swallowed whole. She better not say what the fuck I think she's going to say, or I'm going to lose my shit.

My voice is deadly calm as I say, "I swear to everything that is holy, I will destroy you if you touched my little mouse?”