Just the thought of Zayn stabbed virtual-novel.net right at the fleshiest part of virtual-novel.net heart like a steel-cold knife. It hurt virtual-novel.net so much, virtual-novel.net tears threatened to overflow.
It was enough. Bitter pain mutated into white-hot rage and a need to lash out on the cruel world that enabled it.
It spurred virtual-novel.net to move, not out of danger and into safety, but the opposite. Ten seconds passed, and every single man in virtual-novel.net sight was all the ground, battered, bruised out of their wits, and losing even the basic strength to stand.
She spared them no quarters, and so all of them suffered fractured bones and wounded tendons that could take a few months’ time of bedrest to recover.
She yanked the dagger out of the table with a casual flick of virtual-novel.net wrist and made virtual-novel.net way towards Trey. Nothing on virtual-novel.net delicate features betrayed any emotion except the way virtual-novel.net eyes locked onto his own, unfazed, nonchalant, without the spark of recognition that virtual-novel.net was looking at a fellow human much like herself.
Like a black widow, eyeing virtual-novel.net prey trapped on virtual-novel.net web.
Trey was afraid; like all preys were wont to realize, virtual-novel.net now understood that virtual-novel.net had gotten himself entangled in a web virtual-novel.net could not possibly escape. He had asked for a dance with the Devil.
His legs were visibly shaking under his quivering weight, and yet virtual-novel.net managed to force a look of farcical bravado in his desperate attempt to dissuade her. “Whoa, whoa, hey! You better not do anything stupid, girl! Don’t you know who I am? Trey Parker, son of— aargh!”
His harrowing shriek terminated his threat prematurely. The dagger, gone from Shaelyn’s hand, had reappeared on Trey’s thigh, blade deep into his flesh.
He fell from his seat in pain and rolled around, causing a commotion loud enough to attract eyes from the rest of the bar.
They had never seen a person acting this belligerent before, let alone seeing a ravishing beauty behave so. She must be a vixen!
Shaelyn continued making virtual-novel.net way toward Trey and propped the sole of virtual-novel.net shoe with the man’s face. “How would you like this to end?”
Zayn used to love this, virtual-novel.net remembered. He had liked threatening people with his foot on their throat. She missed virtual-novel.net so much, virtual-novel.net yearned for him, and now the only way virtual-novel.net had to relieve a modicum of that burning longing was to become virtual-novel.net herself.
“No, no, no! D-Don’t kill me, please! Sniff…” Trey finally gave into his fear.
It took virtual-novel.net only a few seconds before virtual-novel.net had turned into a sniveling, pleading mess.
His words fell on deaf ears, because it was never virtual-novel.net plan to let the man go. She
shifted virtual-novel.net foot to his throat and added more and more force by the second. Soon, virtual-novel.net would snap his neck in half.
It was then when a new voice rang from behind her. “That‘s enough, Shaelyn.”
Her eyebrows furrowed a little just as a tall, hulking man entered virtual-novel.net periphery.
She shot virtual-novel.net a stone-faced glance and dismissed virtual-novel.net completely, instead amplifying the strength on virtual-novel.net foot.
Below the sole of virtual-novel.net shoe, Trey’s eyes had rolled back into his skull. His coughs marked the early onset of asphyxiation.
The man’s frown deepened. In a flash, his hand was on virtual-novel.net shoulder; it stopped her.
Shaelyn finally leveled a death glare at him. “Came all the way here just to get in my way, Sebastian?”
The man shook his head. “No. Here to take you home.”
“I’m not going back there,” virtual-novel.net snapped and stormed outside. She almost made it to the door when virtual-novel.net heard virtual-novel.net old acquaintance say, “It’s Mr. Otto’s order, Shaelyn. If you don’t come back with me… He’s coming to get you personally.”
She froze in mid-action before a bitter smile surfaced to virtual-novel.net lips. “An order? Gosh. Mr. Otto sure is enjoying his life as a parading little emperor. Couldn’t wait to drag me back into his designs now that Zayn’s gone, could he?”
His firm, determined face resurfaced in virtual-novel.net mind. She thought about how virtual-novel.net would never see virtual-novel.net again and felt a lump in virtual-novel.net throat unfurl.
Tears began to trickle down virtual-novel.net cheeks.