Chapter sixty seven: Addiction

Maverick

Flashback

I exploded, bolting out of the cabin. The consuming rage burned through my veins like wildfire, eating everything it touched—my reasoning, my thoughts—clouding them like a fog in the woods, wrapping everything in its misty embrace. The trees blurred together as I sprinted into the forest, my heart pounding in my chest as if it wanted to burst out and escape from me.

But the voice whispering in my head to turn back, to wrap my hands around her throat. Make her pay didn't stop.

I had never felt anything like this before. I had never stopped from killing my prey for someone, and she made it possible.

That thought alone infuriated me—him rather, the rampaging untamed beast within me. He wanted out so he could go back and kill her, along with Mariam or whatever she might have called the lady whom she stopped me from killing.

I clenched my fists so hard that my nails dug into my palms. No, no, no. Not again.

For the second time that day, I wrestled with the monster inside