Chapter 18

I start arming myself with heavy objects in readiness for battle and know that if Mico cannot control him, I better be ready to protect myself. Heart pounding and my eyes never leaving his face, I gather an arsenal to my chest.

“I’m going to fucking kill her!!!” Alexi yells at him and me, eyes boring into mine with the stormiest chaos within their depths; a guy who has snapped.

I glare back, unwilling to show him any fear or back down, even though I am quaking right down to my toes and know this was a stupid move.

He no longer owns me and has no right to be here, but it doesn’t mean he won’t try to punish me.

“Just fucking try! I will stab you in the goddamn throat, you psycho!” I screech back, wielding a hair tong that’s about as pointy as the shoe and probably incapable of penetrating skin, but I wave it manically anyway as though I intend to use it.

Mico loses his grip on the fighting beast, and before I get a chance to re-arm myself with something m