Reese

“Please don’t leave me. I love you. I love you so fucking much,” I choke as the crowd gasps and the screaming chants turn fearful.

Metal scraping sounds as yet another portcullis is lifted. I drag myself up, ready to kill anyone who comes near us. Any empathy I had is lying on the ground drowning in Blink’s blood.

I draw my gun, done with this bullshit, and freeze when a fucking lion the size of a small car comes charging out of the room it was being held in.

My brain can’t process what it’s seeing, making me wonder how much blood I’ve lost.

He leaps over Cranks prone body as I raise my gun and aim. Titus stands and screams at me to put it down.

Put it down? So we can all fucking die? I don’t think so. I don’t give a fuck if I’m breaking the rules. Wait…down, lay down.

I move a fraction and fire. The bullet hits Titus in the shoulder, but then Law is there like a dark angel, his bullet hitting Titus in the back of his head. Titus slumps, his body pitching forward before toppling into the arena to a cacophony of screams. .

The crowd is going crazy, and not because of the action down here, but because they know everything is spiraling out of control.

I see Philip staring at me as he points his gun at Law, who dives to the left. But Philip just smiles before placing his gun under his jaw and firing.

More screaming, more panic, and the lion is only a few feet from me when I aim my gun at it once more and scream at the top of my lungs.

“Platz!”