Pucking the Captain
"I tried to keep you safe from the media, from the scouts, and from him. But since you refuse to listen to reason, I’ll just have to remove the distraction. I’ll tell the press the captain snapped. I’ll tell them you were a tragic victim of his violent temper."
My heart slammed against my ribs like a trapped bird, the adrenaline flooding my veins so fast it made my vision swim with black spots.
He wasn’t bluffing. He was completely, irreversibly gone, lost in his own psychotic delusion, and he was going to kill us and bury us in the woods to protect his own twisted legacy.
I glanced back over my shoulder, my eyes meeting Jules’s wide, terrified gaze for a fraction of a second, silently telli