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Crap. The man was obsessed and a stalker.

My hand found my gun, but I didn’t draw it. The moment I showed aggression would be the moment things went sour.

Only, I didn’t need to do anything to make the situation worse.

Isaac took care of that.

Chapter 36

ISAAC

Iwatched him work me like a puppet, forcing me to my feet, my little brother holding my arm.

“What happened?” he asked.

“Riley!” I cried, my voice swallowed in the void.

Darkness around me, no more solar shadows, the real world playing out before me like watching it on a huge TV screen.

“It’s not me!” I yelled. “It’s not me!”

Fuck. There had to be a way back to myself that didn’t rely on my powers, which weren’t working right now.

Of course!

Fake Me got up, taking Riley by the shoulders. “I’m better than ever.”

My brother backed away. “You sound different.”

“Do I?” Out of nowhere, Fake Me cracked his fist on the side of Riley’s head. He went down into a heap, out cold.

I screamed bloody murder, clawing at the darkness, running into it, only to arrive right back at this point before the screen.

“You fuckhead!” I wailed. “I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!”

Tony laughed, the sound resonating through my body.

“I’ll fucking kill you!” I screamed, my rage needing his blood to paint every wall.

He strode toward the door. “We’re on a timer here, so be?—”

When he flung the door open, Drake was waiting there with a gun. “I know you’re in there.”

Fake Me shrugged, dropping to sweep Drake’s feet from beneath him. When the scrying witch hit the floor, Tony picked up his gun and shot him in the leg with disgusting speed.

“Drake!”

Was it his new wereleopard features making me move like that? Did being inside me enhance his skills?

“Don’t follow me.” He threw the gun over my shoulder and hurried down the stairs.

He moved quickly, pausing at the front doors. “And now we begin, babe. This is where the real fun begins.”

White magical energy came to his hands. “Freedom!” He clapped my hands, releasing the spell.

The bright figures tore from my body, dancing ina blinding ring around me. My fury quaked inside me, forcing tears down my cheeks.

I’d end him. I’d find a way to make him scream.