whelming emotions, Freya couldn't function. Every

got no response. "Freya?" He called out a secon

ng, "

u let into my house? What the fuck

of waves. Shock, anger, and then a p

ing face to me after all these years? After what you and your family

hand and swung away, blinded. She ran from the ro

ace her footsteps through the b

started the engine with a roar, and shot arou

Dante wi

because her head was all over the place. She could neither think nor act straight. Right now, she was th

d to the source of Freya's di

Dante, outrag

owl while he held back t

to the door. Not really that she need

r the sliding

d in front o

ered Jake's eyes. He didn't know what Dante was, but

empting to find another exit. He was eventually sto

tred, but no fear and no confusion.

Jake. Dante had an arrogance that would ma

mmed open, as Jake

"Get off me right this instant if you still want your fingers attached to your body," he

that gave him total love, and experiencing new sensations and feelings

h careless cruelty. Now he twisted the fact that he knew her past to address her

basic. He saw a source of

d. The glass-fronted cabinets rattled, and dishes behind them took up the

t, then back at Dante. "You're paying for that. You can't

t but didn't intervene now stood at a safe

arted to smile. "Son of a bitch. You don't know who you just fucked with. You won't have anything left whe

ke was a small, fragile creature, smelling of hope, a

hen counter, a polished slab of gra

rd produced a gun and pointed

a Hero shielding them from reality. But, it will take more than bullets to

et out of here, or there will be bloodshed." turning to h

ays bad news. And he wanted to slake that defect with something simple, like leaving a mark behind. Maybe rippin

d for Jak

ated from Jake, sic

he gripped harder while Jake tried to p

tinct to track through the jungle some

"Tell Freya that she has been ch

to get what had just happened, while

roposal and the be