CHAPtER 74

Lola breathed loudly as her fingers tightened on Drake’s skull even more. He let out another scream, more high-pitched than the first. Blood trickled down from where her claw-tipped fingers punctured his skin and were on their way to pushing past the bone of his skull. His legs kicked wildly and his hands beat at her arms. They were frantic. Filled with panic. She could smell the fear coming off him, a bitter, acrid scent that seemed to feed the beast that had taken control of her. Its hunger for killing, for blood, deepened into something almost frightening. Buried inside still, locked away in that room of flickering images, Lola could feel that bloodlust in herself. It was terrible. It was a need, an urge, to kill. Through those flickering images, she caught glimpses of Drake’s face. It was still a mix of human and animal but it was slowly reverted back to its human state. The canine features were disappearing and in just a few moments, he just looked like any other human. Weak. Fr