Defending What’s Right

Riley POV

The horrors I just witnessed were unexplainable. I wanted to look away, but I couldn't. I have never seen anything so heinous in my life. I grew up in New York and my father was the police chief. I was aware of the vile things humans did to one another. I never witnessed it though.

Demetrius wasn't human either. He was something that could overpower us all, and he lived for five hundred years. It seemed cruel and unfair for the world to allow something so evil to walk among us. I never thought much about our world spiritually, but I thought there would be more of a balance. I had to believe if evil like Demetrius could exist, then something equally as good could too.

I wasn't so foolish or naive to think I could be the one to kill him. I would stop at nothing to be the one that finds his undoing though. There had to be a way to get out from under his grasp.

"Do as the guards tell you, beautiful. Hopefully this will all be over soon." Jax kissed my lips and I felt the fear