Alaia was watching Wraith, and something wasn’t right. He stood confident but he looked ashen, and as Renaldo got more fidgety, Alaia’s senses picked up on the emotions. The rage, the fear, and the anxiety, all of it mixing together in a gumbo pot making them an aura borealis of misery.
Holding her chin up as she heard more cries of agony, Wraith and Renaldo exchanged looks before Renaldo looked at her. “I think you should reconsider coming with me. That mongrel, obviously can’t keep you safe.”
He said it cockily as Jasper crushed the windpipe of a man who looked like Dwayne Johnson’s stunt double. And it left Desmond and Loren backing him up unnerved by the sheer ease of how efficient Jasper was in his delivery.
Alaia sent Renaldo a wary glance as she predicted, “No I’m good. He’s d
