NovelSearch Chapter 34: Danger All Around
Chapter 34: Danger All Around
Chapter 34: Danger All AroundRonan looked down at the precious bundle in his arms and felt true contentment for the first time in his life.
He, like his brothers, had been abandoned by his birth parents when he was just a child. He had bounced around from foster home to foster home, never staying more than a few months before the foster parents got rid of him.
He was only 10 when he finally ended up in the same house as René, Luca, and the others, and he was the last one to join their band of brothers.
But even with the guys there, watching his back and showing him how life could be, he knew he was still missing something. He tried to fill it with sex and women, but that got old very fast... and the one time he actually fell asleep next to a one-night stand, he woke up holding a knife to her throat.
Apparently, the voice in his head didn’t appreciate him ’contaminating’ his body with other women. It had promised him that the moment he slipped unconscious, it would kill whoever was in bed with him. He hadn’t believed it at first, but after that night, he refused to take the chance again.
He even went so far as to refuse to even sleep in the same room as the rest of the guys, just in case the voice wasn’t going to limit it to only females.
At the lowest moment of his life, Ronan remembered the moment he slit his own wrists, trying to get rid of the feeling of being incomplete, but the monster inside of him healed him instantly. It told him that his body belonged to only one person, and without her permission, Ronan wasn’t allowed to do anything to it.
Ronan knew that the others all had voices in their heads, telling them things, but none of them seemed to be as psychotic as his own. Hell, René had a fiancé and everything.
’You can bitch and complain all you want,’ said the voice in his head as it slithered out of the shadows deep inside his mind. The demon chuckled when it encountered the wall Ronan had tried to raise between the two minds, but with a flick of its fingers, the wall shattered completely. ’Isn’t she perfect?’
Ronan stumbled over his feet for a second, causing Max, who was walking beside him, to look over in concern. "Yous okay?"
"Yup," nodded Ronan, a slight smile on his face as he lied to his friend. "I’s all good."
’Do you know how long we have looked for her? The angel in your arms? We’ve existed since the beginning of time, and it’s been that long that we have
"Do you understand what you need to do?" asked Alicia, her mouth barely moving as she stared at the two disheveled men in front of her.
"We’s jus’ gotta leave ’er in de swamp?" asked one, looking at Alicia from the corner of his eyes. "Wha’ happen’ if ’er man wakes up an’ stops us?"
"They won’t," Alicia assured them, rolling her eyes. Since she planned this, everything had been accounted for, including the sleeping pills in their portion of the gumbo. "And when you come back, you’ll have all the supplies you could ever dream of."
The men nodded their heads and exchanged a look with each other before they crept over to the fire, where a single girl and six men slept, completely unaware of the danger around them.