Chapter 94

No. No.

I refused to die now when I'd come so close to saving Jade. I refused to let her die behind the closed door of the town hall. But that gunshot... My nerves trembled, and worry chewed through my gut, for her and myself.

Another man strode out of the whiteout and stopped several feet away next to a tree heavy with snow.

Lager stopped in front of me and shouted over the wind, "You have no idea how long I've waited for this day."

I squirmed in the other man's grasp, but I didn't have enough air to tell Lager to go to hell - or to tease him with details about his missing family. If he knew about them, he might not be so quick to kill me if he thought I could supply more details. If he tried, though, if I got my chance, I'd have to kill him first, my promise to Shay be damned.

He stepped closer so we were nose to nose, a victorious grin stretching his mouth. His sickly sweet honey scent choked down my throat with the tiny sliver of air the man who held me allowed.