“What are you doing —”
He grabs a fistful of my hair harshly. “Shut the fuck up, Elsa.”
I whimper around the pain ripping at my skull and the uncomfortable position he’s forcing me into. The car’s cold, wet metal digs into my stomach the more I try to move.
When I open my mouth to say something, he pulls me up by my hair so I’m staring at his dark eyes.
His plain black T-shirt is soaked, sticking to his muscles like a second skin. The rain forms rivulets down his hard face, his strong jawline and the bump on his lips due to his fight with Xander.
He appears angry.
No. Lethal.
It could be because of the dark or the rain or the desolate streets, but a chill of terror spreads over my skin.
This is Aiden’s true form. The soulless, unfeeling psycho.
“Shh, not a fucking word.” His left eye twitches. “You don’t want to test me right now.”
My lips tremble and it’s not because of the cold or the rain.
“Aunt is just upstairs.” I try to threaten. “She’ll come down for me.”
His lips brush my ear as he whispers in a cruel voice, “Then why aren’t you screaming?”
Before I can think about that, he bites the shell of my ear. Hard. So hard that I think he’s after my flesh.
I shriek, but his hand clamps around my mouth, turning it into a muffled, haunted sound.
The type victims make when they’re kidnapped in the middle of the night.
“Do you like blood on your hands?” he asks with a dark, chilling tone.
My back snaps at the image.
Blood on my hands.
In my hair.
In my —
“If I killed Xan today, it would’ve been all because of you.”
I mumble against his hand, but he only pulls me harder by my hair. “Do you know that I feel murderous when someone touches you? Is that why you pulled that fucking stunt?”
I shake my head, tears rimming my eyes and mixing with the pouring rain.
God. He’s a psycho. A sick sonofabitch.
Then why am I not fighting?
Fucking fight, Elsa. You’re a fighter.
My limbs remain locked in place no matter how much I beg them to move.
“Answer me.”
I mumble an unintelligible sound. He’s blocking my mouth, how the hell am I supposed to answer?