Page 25 of Monsters Within (The Creatures We Crave 1)
“Yeah.” Kylo shrugged nonchalantly as he leaned against the wall. “I don’t have plans. What about you, Elwin?”
This caused the man to struggle and begin to scream for help–which no one stepped forward to provide.
From my crouched position, I tilted my head and kept my voice calm as I offered, “You know, this could’ve been over already. You only have yourself to blame for letting it get this far. Tell everyone what you’ve done and we’ll be on our way.”
The man’s breathing was becoming short and rapid as Lucien tossed the wounded arm to the ground and yanked up the other. “No! No! Please!” he begged, his tears flowing freely now as he crumbled before us.
I smiled in victory as the man’s low pain tolerance became apparent. It wouldn’t take long at all until he was a whimpering mess confessing his sins.
“Fine!” he howled, “I’ve coerced students into sexual acts.”
“How did you force them?” Lucien asked, yanking further on his left arm.
“I threatened academic probation, expulsion, and failing grades that would put students’ scholarships in danger,” he confessed in a rush. “Now get off of me!”
I heard a soft voice talking into a phone, saying she needed the police to come and detain someone. Excellent.
We could leave him to go find Alexandra soon enough.
Just then, her voice ripped through the room in a shriek. “I told you to stay out of trouble!”
Ahh, shit. We’d compromised our whereabouts, and if the way she stomped over with flared nostrils and flattened lips was any indicator, she was furious.
If I could go back in time and change things, I still wouldn’t though. He deserved all of this and more.
He’d touched what was ours and who knows how many others, and now he was paying the price. He should be counting his blessings that we were being careful to not put our powers on display right now.
If we were, I wasn’t sure who would drain him of life first—Lucien or Kylo. Without a doubt, this man was full of greed, anger, envy, and pride. The predators always were.
