My gaze scanned the kitchen, landing on a block sitting right there a few feet away from the two of them.
I didn’t stop to think.
About if I had what it would take.
About the repercussions.
I just charged forward, grabbing the hilt of what turned out to be a heavy, sharp chef’s knife.
And I just… stabbed it into his back with every bit of strength in my significantly smaller body.
Which, as it turned out, was more than enough.
Josh’s body arched and jerked hard even before the howl of pain escaped him. His sudden movement had me yanking the knife back out, barely even registering the resistance as it pulled out of muscle and fat and whatever else it had sliced through inside of him.
Wren’s body went flying backward and down, landing with a crash against the kitchen table, sending the chairs flying as she yelped.
But I couldn’t look at her.
For the time being, she was safe.
I had to keep my eyes on Josh who was suddenly spinning, his eyes huge, his hand clutching his stomach.
“Fucking bitch!” he raged, taking a step forward, his other arm outstretched.
I wasn’t even fully aware of what I was doing then. It was like my body had shifted into autopilot and I was watching like a passenger in the backseat as the driver plunged the knife into that outstretched palm.
Then his chest.
Then his throat.
Then his chest again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
It was the blood that finally seemed to put me back in the driver’s seat of my own body.
The hot, sticky blood that was making my hand slip on the hilt of the knife, losing my grip.
Not that it mattered.
Josh was crumpling down to the floor, his hands holding his throat, his mouth opening and closing like he was trying to say something, but nothing came out but a horrific death rattle.
I watched as the life drained from those evil eyes of his, but it took me a solid moment before I realized that I’d done that.
I’d drained that life.
I’dkilledhim.
Just like that, I could suddenly think past the survival drive. I could hear past the whooshing of my pulse in my ears.
And that was when I heard it.
Him.