CHAPTER 24

“I know you won’t hurt me!” The words burst out of her like a physical thing, seeming to rip at her throat on the way out. It hurt but the pain was a little thing in comparison to what was about to happen to her if Russel didn’t stop himself. The creature was beautiful, in a morbid sort of way. Its amber eyes were almost a hypnotic thing. The savage, brutal nature of him spoke of raw power and strength. She wondered, idly, how she could think such strange things in the heat of the most frightening moment of her life. No answer came to her for that question though, but she did come away with the realization that nothing else that happened to her came closer to being as terrifying. Watching Russel charging at her as a horrifyingly but oddly beautiful monster topped the list. Even after everything that happened at Gloucester, this one was worse. The fact that she just waited, staring him down as he got closer and closer to her made her body feel like it was about to dissolve into a puddl