Chapter 0398

- Josie -

I can hear they are close by, at least one of them in the dining room.

Keeping crouched down low, I move behind the furniture, using it as a source to hide behind until the very last moment.

They made a mistake coming here, this was my home. I knew every part of this house, every corner. They've completely underestimated us yet again.

Who were they, what exactly did they want... I can't think of that right now, I need to keep calm, not let the growing rage within me take over.

I need calmness, complete control.

I see him, he's moving around the dining room table...arrogantly. He's taking in the paintings on the wall, the pictures...even running his spare hand across the dining room...I feel sick just watching him touch what is ours.

The scoff he gives as he stops by the picture of all five of us, brings nausea to the back of my throat. It was a silly family portrait shoot Auntie Alora made us do. We were only young, innocent children...how dare he base judgement upon us.

I don't wait, I don't even give him the chance to acknowledge that someone was watching him, that I was better than him. I point my gun and take aim.

Three down...I was shooting to kill and not wasting any time. I didn't have any time to waste.

the kitchen. Two bodies laid on the floor, untouched. I said this would be their tombs. The other one has to be in the kitchen or near the back door, by the utility room that leads off

I've taken this last male down, I can move on to the meadows, help my family...get to

think about...that he and they are safe, that they

determination I need to push my

feel it through the pack bond and it temporarily immobilises me. I feel as if the

Stunned...I can't breathe.

is down!" Beta Riley's voice roars through the pack mind-link, my entire body frozen in

others...what about Mum...she was

behind me that breaks me out of my

She talks into some kind of radioed ear pierce as I

face the gun staring point blank at my

my focus on the task in hand by the news through the pack link. She had used that opportunity to come out of hiding. If things weren't so dire, I'd congratulate her. "You need to

at her, her fallen comrades scattered around

we came alone do you?" She

now

risk...I don't think

shift. Readying to attack. But

she'll

was a stale mate, and she was

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