Chapter 97
Bridger’s POV
My informants are telling me that they haven’t heard anything yet, but my gut is telling me something else. I’ve lived too long to think that my prey won’t try to escape or fight back. Melina is a fighter. She isn’t going to give up, and neither is her team. They are dangerous, and I am treating them as such. It would be a mistake not to treat this as my most dangerous attempt.
When I first started collecting. No one knew what I was doing or that I was dangerous. It was much easier to absorb my victims. But in the last hundred years, things have become tougher. Word got out, and a group banded together. They insisted I stop targeting other magical beings. I took that threat seriously, as they were getting ready to end me if I continued.
At that time, I couldn
