Chapter 45. Carson the Ghost

ZANDER'S POV

“Zander! Let him go,” Hazel yelled. I felt her tiny fingers working as a tool to wrench my claws from around Lance's neck. 

“Do you take me for a fool, ghoul?” Gidian bellowed, ignoring the pleas of our wife. 

The rotten corpse struggled against my hold, but the more he struggled, pieces of his body kept falling to the ground. 

It tried talking, but my tight grip didn't allow him to.

“That's enough!” Isis boomed. 

I felt my heart rate slowing rapidly and my anger subsiding with it. “Isis, Declan just mind-linked me and told me that Major Skully is with them," I seethed. “So I think this one here might be leading us into a trap.” I released my grip on Lance, sending the rest of him falling to the ground. 

I was angry as I explained to the others what Declan revealed to me. 

Hazel placed a hand on mine for comfort. “Let's hear him out before we make such accusations," she told me. But I was tire