Chapter 153

The Prey

The air inside the helicopter was suffocating. Not because of the height but because of him—his presence, his bloodied hands, and the rage that still lingered in his gaze, like an inferno barely subdued. I couldn’t stop shaking, my chest heaving as I tried to make sense of the massacre I had just witnessed.

Never… never I expected to witness such cruelty. How could a man… a human be so inhumane?

His grip on me wasn’t harsh, but it was intoxicating. A leash, pulling me under and keeping me still.

The flames from the mansion below painted his sharp features in flickering hues of orange and red. At first, he didn’t look at me; his attention was solely focused on the destruction he’d wrought. But when he finally turned, his eyes softened—a contradiction to the monster I had just seen.

I crumbled. The tears I’d held back broke free, spilling down my cheeks as sobs wracked my body. I couldn’t hold it together anymore, not after seein