KAI POV
*Gengsta - Kehlani*
These disgusting things started to move when touched.
Dalton was right. Something inside them was alive.
I just freaking didn’t know how without a heartbeat.
The first mistake was thinking I could handle one of them bare-handed. Rookie move. I grabbed a twisted lump that looked halfway between a wolf pup and a drowned lizard, yanked at the tubes running into its chest like I was ripping weeds out of a garden—only for the damn thing’s talons to snap up and claw my arm.
I wasn’t expecting that. Not one bit.
I’m not proud of what happened next. I screeched. Loud. Like a schoolgirl afraid of spiders.
In my defense? The monster’s skin was mushy, slimy, and gave under my fingers like rotten fruit. Try keeping your dignity while a demon-Frankenstein-goo-creatur
