Page 36 of Wonderland Asylum (Wonderland Killers #1)

THIRTY-FOUR

She's Gone

Hell is coming for every single person that took her away from us.

-Gunner

Visions of shards from my whiskey glass being shoved into Tony Sanderson's eyeballs float through my mind, but not actually doing it is a testament to how good Presley Kate is for us.

She said I couldn't kill him, she didn't say anything about making him go blind. Theodora has apologized a million times for trying to set them up.

We don't hold her accountable, she doesn't know how truly obsessed we are with her daughter. She's even introduced us to everybody as Presley Kate's boyfriends, which couldn't have been easy for her.

That fucker Tony looked surprised when he found out about us, but some people are too stupid for their own good. The knowledge that she belongs to us, hasn't stopped him from following her around all night like a dog in heat. If he doesn't learn his place it could get bloody.

Kai growls beside me. "I've never stabbed anybody in the skull before, I could do it as an experiment."

I grunt. "Yeah, all in the name of science. Too bad she made us promise we wouldn't kill him."

He shrugs. "Accidents happen all the time."

"Thankfully, they do, but does he seem a little odd to you?" Something's off, and my brother's intuition where people are concerned is better than mine.

"I can't put my finger on it brother, but I think he's like us." He admits.

Fuck. Just what she needs, another killer infatuated with her. "Call Declan, she said we couldn't kill him but she didn't say anything about him."

He nods. "You're ten minutes too late, he's on his way."

I look at my brother to gauge his reaction. "Good, because I really don't want us to break a promise to her. Do you think this has anything to do with The King Asshole of Heart's?"

He winces, and I bite the inside of my cheek to keep the rage at bay. "You know how I feel about coincidences, Gunner. This is too much of one to believe it was by accident."

My brother's got a point. When I'd asked Theodora about him, she said that he'd walked over one evening when she'd been gardening. Supposedly, he's the son of one of their neighbors down the road. However, no one has seen his parents since he moved in.

I'm starting to think that my Little Lamb was right about this whole cult thing. I'll gut every single one of them before all is said and done.

What the fuck? "Why is she going outside with him? "

I don't wait for him to answer me because I'm already running toward the front door. For a party to be in full swing it's eerily quiet outside. I'm trying not to panic but she's nowhere in sight.

Vehicles line the drive, and are parked in the field surrounding the house. It’s fucked, because I was less than two minutes behind them, yet there is no movement anywhere.All I’m greeted with is stone cold silence.

I look everywhere, in every car—truck—in everything. She’s gone. Like a chainsaw to my chest, my heart has been pulverized. It bleeds with fury, and I will not be able to keep it below the surface for much longer. Somebody needs to pay for what they've done.

"I've got a bad feeling about this." Kai whispers.

"Where have you been?" Grabbing him by the collar of his shirt, I hiss through clinched teeth.

"Getting our knives."

He places my knife in my hand, and the sheer weight of it makes me hard. I'm going to lay their heads at her feet, then kiss her until she forgives us for allowing whatever this is to happen.

"I've checked the perimeter, but there's nothing. It's too fucking quiet, Kai."

He elbows in my ribs, to keep me from spiraling. "Calm down, we can't help her if we go crazy. Remember, we need to reign in our madness. Then we can unleash it when we kill them all."

He's right, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to lose my shit. Taking a deep breath I center myself. We have a code. We have a code. We have a code.

My voice is a growl, but I force myself to hold on to a semblance of my humanity. "Do what you do best. Hunt."

Bending down, he looks for tracks in the grass, I couldn't see any when I looked but maybe he can. We're just grasping at straws really. "It's like she's vanished into thin air. "

I nod. "Where's the trash can? It was by the barn earlier."

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Black dots begin to blur my vision, and just when the panic starts to settle in, Kai spots two hooded figures running behind the barn.

Being stone cold killers we learned at an early age how to move quietly. Hushed whispers come from inside the double doors.

My veins roar to life inside my body, while my throat thickens with emotion. The adrenaline spike will come next, I always get like this when I'm about to make a kill.

Kai smiles, because he's feeling it too. Sadly, we won't be able to torture them for long. Too much is at stake and we need answers sooner rather than later.

We're still too far away to make out what they're saying, but when their voices travel further into the barn, we enter and follow them to the other side.

One of the hooded figures is well over six feet, he's muscular but not more so than Kai. The other one is stocky and shorter than both of us. He shouldn't pose much of a threat, but sometimes people do surprise you.

We wait in the shadows to see if we can gain any information this way. They don't know they're being watched so they could slip up.

The devil on my shoulder tells me to go ahead and slit their throats, yet the sane part of my mind knows that we may never find Presley Kate again if I do that.

She will always win out in the end. She's my light, the one that extinguishes the clutter from my heart and soul. Losing her is not an option.

The big guy points his knife at his companion. "You told me that no innocent person would die. Killing whores and people that won't be missed is one thing, but I don't want no part in killing that old couple over there. They've done nothing to his royal highness.”

I've looked all around this room several times and haven't seen any one else. Who is he talking about?

Kai is doing the same, but when he looks back at me his eyebrows are raised. "Fucking psychos." He mouths.

He's not wrong, where did the "king" find these murderous assholes? My bet is probably Craigslist, never trust anybody from that site. I know because I've used it to bait our victims.

I hear a cry for help in the corner, and that's when I spot them. There's an elderly couple tied up with their feet and hands bound, their mouths have been duck taped.

While all of this is horrendous, what pisses me off the most is that their faces are bloodied and bruised.

Kai rages beside me, the vein in his throat beats mercilessly against his skin. Placing my hand on his arm, I step in front of him before he explodes.

"Can I ask what you're doing here?" I smile when the color drains from their faces. Fuckers.

The big guy puffs out his chest. "Who the fuck are you?"

He has no clue he's digging himself a deeper grave. "I'm the man who's about to gut you like a pig. Now where's our girl?"

Their smug expressions quickly dissolve into ones of fear, and when Kai moves himself out of the shadows they damn near piss themselves. If they only knew I was the craziest of the two.

I think it's also safe to assume that they've been warned about who we are. Good, because now they know how this dance is going to end.

Kai's voice is deadly. "My brother didn't stutter. Where's our fucking girl?"

"She's being taken to the King." The short one replies.

Showing them my knife, I smile when they back themselves up against the wall. "That doesn't tell us much."

I'm done with them. They're mere peons within the cult, they won't know what the higher ups are planning.

"Please, we don't know where he is. His location is always kept secret!" I'm not sure who shouted it, because they covered their faces as soon as we started moving forward.

He screams when I yank his hair back so that I can look into his eyes when the life drains out of him. "We know, and that's why we're taking pity on you. Your death will come more quickly than the others."

He doesn't try to fight me as I stick my knife into his stomach. My blade cuts a line through the center of him, and when his lungs are severed the sweet sound of his last breath reaches my ears.

Blood pores from his mouth and nose, but his eyes are dead. I throw him down to the ground and watch my brother play with his victim.

Turning to the elderly couple, I hold my bloody hands up so they know we won't hurt them. They look terrified, but don't cower in fear.

Kai frees them from their bindings while I try to get information from them. "We won't hurt you, but we need your discretion. We are two undercover agents with the Pixie Hollow Police Department. Our operative could die if we don't find her location. Did you hear anything that could help us?"

Bending down Kai tries to clean some of the dirt off of the elderly lady.

Her eyes glisten with tears. "She tried to help us, you know.

She was only here for a moment but she tried to untie us.

He slapped her for it, then begged her not to tell the king.

They were going to kill us for our hearts.

This is all very confusing. When can we go home? "

"You'll be home by tonight. We've called one of our friends at the station and he's going to take you to the hospital so that you can get cleaned up and everything gets documented." Kai answers.

"I'm so sorry this happened to you, but we need to find her. Can you think of anything?" I ask again.

The man points at the men lying on the floor. "When one of them asked the man that took her where they were going, he said to a place where childhood dreams come true."

I meet my brother's gaze, because we both know where she is. He's taking her to Wonderland Amusement Park.