Chapter 60

Chapter sixty: safety? Or comfort?

Karen tried to scream, warm him of the impending danger. She wished more than anything that she had a mind link with him.

If he understood her silent pleading, he didn't show it. Instead he turned to Jasper and faced him off. .

"I always knew there was something shifty about you." Kai said

"Not as shifty as you, won't you say?"

Karen's heart thundered. Jasper has a weapon. He could wait for the perfect time to strike and kill him. Karen didn't want to imagine a life without Kai in it. A life where he didn't know she had a child for him.

"You want to fight?" Kai scoffed. "Why don't you humans stuck to your human sports?"

Karen struggled against the ropes, a particularly painful one digging into a cut on her arms. She screamed through the gag, the pain shooting through her head and making her eyes squeeze shut.

"Karen!" Kai shouted and rushed to her. Karen tried to warn him somehow but it Was too late.

Jasper took advantage of the opened and lunged fo