Page 184 of Crave

His voice was a needle beneath my skin.

“You won’t be alone for long. You wanted them so badly…”

He leaned in. Whispered against my mouth.

“I bought one for us to keep.”

To keep.

A pinch came at my side.

Movement before I realised.

Then I knew what they’d done.

“No,” I shook my head, fighting the drug that was coming.

A low, guttural moan came from somewhere in the dark in front of me.

Deep and masculine.

Raw and pain-filled.

The tortured sound came again.

And this time.

This time I knew.

I knew what they’d done.

Gabe.

The monster in front of me smiled.

That smiled blurred, then slipped.

Maybe it was me that slipped?

The darkness didn’t take me this time.

I fell into it.

But before I hit the bottom I heard one whisper.

A whisper from a brother I loved.

“Where is she?”