Just the thought of Zayn stabbed snazzynovel.com right at the fleshiest part of snazzynovel.com heart like a steel-cold knife. It hurt snazzynovel.com so much, snazzynovel.com 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 snazzynovel.com to move, not out of danger and into safety, but the opposite. Ten seconds passed, and every single man in snazzynovel.com 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 snazzynovel.com wrist and made snazzynovel.com way towards Trey. Nothing on snazzynovel.com delicate features betrayed any emotion except the way snazzynovel.com eyes locked onto his own, unfazed, nonchalant, without the spark of recognition that snazzynovel.com was looking at a fellow human much like herself.
Like a black widow, eyeing snazzynovel.com prey trapped on snazzynovel.com web.
Trey was afraid; like all preys were wont to realize, snazzynovel.com now understood that snazzynovel.com had gotten himself entangled in a web snazzynovel.com could not possibly escape. He had asked for a dance with the Devil.
His legs were visibly shaking under his quivering weight, and yet snazzynovel.com 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 snazzynovel.com way toward Trey and propped the sole of snazzynovel.com shoe with the man’s face. “How would you like this to end?”
Zayn used to love this, snazzynovel.com remembered. He had liked threatening people with his foot on their throat. She missed snazzynovel.com so much, snazzynovel.com yearned for him, and now the only way snazzynovel.com had to relieve a modicum of that burning longing was to become snazzynovel.com herself.
“No, no, no! D-Don’t kill me, please! Sniff…” Trey finally gave into his fear.
It took snazzynovel.com only a few seconds before snazzynovel.com had turned into a sniveling, pleading mess.
His words fell on deaf ears, because it was never snazzynovel.com plan to let the man go. She
shifted snazzynovel.com foot to his throat and added more and more force by the second. Soon, snazzynovel.com 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 snazzynovel.com periphery.
She shot snazzynovel.com a stone-faced glance and dismissed snazzynovel.com completely, instead amplifying the strength on snazzynovel.com foot.
Below the sole of snazzynovel.com 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 snazzynovel.com 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,” snazzynovel.com snapped and stormed outside. She almost made it to the door when snazzynovel.com heard snazzynovel.com 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 snazzynovel.com 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 snazzynovel.com mind. She thought about how snazzynovel.com would never see snazzynovel.com again and felt a lump in snazzynovel.com throat unfurl.
Tears began to trickle down snazzynovel.com cheeks.