Hideaway

He slowly approached me, staring hard. “Love is pain, Nik,” he told me. “It’s never felt good.”

“You can thank Little Sister for this,” he told the headstone. “It was her idea.”

God, Kai was going to kill me.

“Then we’ll be back, I guess.”

“And if he just gets more dogs?”

There were nine dogs, last I’d seen. Hopefully we could get them all to fit.

“I don’t want to hurt you. Anymore,”

She was dead.

“You didn’t kill her.”

I watched as Will jumped on top of him, knocking the gun out of his hand and swinging his fists like he’d been waiting a year for this.