Shifted Fate (Amy) novel Chapter 544

Lynn’s face was triumphant. Brandon screamed. “Derek!” But he was still frozen. Derek himself was stuck on his knees, eyes open but glossy. Blood still trickled from his wounds, but that was more from gravity than it was from his heart. Because his heart was silent. “No!” Brandon screamed again, but Lynn just laughed. “You stupid bitch, I’ll kill you myself. He didn’t deserve to die.”

“He deserved every fucking slice.” She screamed back. “Every time he touched me, cut me, burned me. I kept count. I kept track of every fucking breath he breathed against my neck. He got lucky that I was stuck like this before I had finished.”

Brandon’s eyes burned as he opened his mouth but Garith screamed. “Enough.” He waved his hands towards me, and I stepped up next to him. “Good girl.” He opened the toolkit in my hand and smiled. “You wouldn’t mind holding this for me, would ya, darling?” He smiled as if he were asking, but I felt the weak command he put into his words.

Rowan snorted. “You did all of this to kill me and take over as king, but that was your command?” His eyes turned to Garith’s. “You are fucking weak.”

Garith snarled. “I know I won’t be king, but my son is stronger.” He grinned and grabbed for me. He pulled me around the pew so I was standing next to his thigh and he unzipped the toolkit, displaying the knives there. “Now…let’s get to work.”

“Gavin would never.” Rowan was baiting him.

“Gavin is a disappointment. I was smart enough to have a backup. Not as strong, and Garren has no magic, but beggars can’t be chooser I guess.”

Garren…I’ve heard that name before.

The wolf that Aurora was with in the caves. Nix growled low as she remembered.

Garith sighed. “I would have been happier with Gavin’s girl…now, she had potential. But…” He turned to look at Brandon. “Some people have different ideas.” He turned to Shannon. “And some have ambitions they shouldn’t. But here we are.” He turned back to Rowan. “It doesn’t matter anyway. I’m close.”

“Close? To what?” Rowan laughed again. “Killing me will do nothing for your position. My Luna is already in place to take over for me.” His words made my stomach clench.

Garith waved a hand. “There is a solution for your Luna. But I’m close to the first family. I can feel it. I have traced a few lines, and I feel like I am close.”

Nix snorted. Closer than he actually thinks.

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