The Defiance novel

---- Chapter 17: His Name Seth's POV She fell asleep. I guess exhaustion finally caught her to slumber. Her cheeks were flushed and were stained with dried tears I painfully watched all throughout . This would be etched in my memory for the longest time. My hand reached the side of her face but I didn't touch her skin. I just let my hand hover over it, and traced its curves in the air. [had no right to touch her now because I caused her too much pain. She was broken all over again.

And because of me. Unblinking , I imprinted the sight in front of me. Alice, even in her sleep looked devastated. I fisted my hand as I hang it on my side, my fingers curled into my palms until my nails dived into my flesh. But I didn't feel anything. I just wanted to scream and kill myself. "They have arrived", I looked over my shoulders to see Maxx when he spoke. My face should've said something between him entering without permission or announcing himself so sudden.

He said, "I knocked on the door many times but it seems you haven't heard", he defended , and took a quick glance at the woman sleeping on the bed. His ---- feature softened and I faced him fully. We fell into silence and left the room. Iwas angry. I was seething. With heavy steps, I outlined my way to the basement where I intended to release the burning rage inside of me.I pushed the metal door open. It boomed loudly on the wall. My men were unfazed, Maxx stepped into the room.

My eyes fixated directly at the two males struggling at their chairs as they were tied up securely. Face battered and bloodied. No one dared to say a single word. Donnie and the others just stood watching me as I reached for the gun resting on the table together with all the other tools they used to torture our captives. I unlocked the safety and held it firmly like I always did. "We're not going to talk, so fuck off", the man who had the tattoo on his right cheek said.

My eyebrow raised at his statement. "Do you think I fucking care?", the other man beside him paled and struggled more. Pointing the gun on him, I pulled the trigger without any hesitation and that man was dead in seconds without so much uttering any single word. I didn't even give him the chance to make me hear his stupid voice.

I turned my aim on the man who tried his best to look unaffected so I, for the second time, pulled the trigger that ---- seemed to know my fingers for the longest time now. They both died. Blood pooled against the floor and I threw the gun against the wall in front of me. Its sound echoed across the room. "Fucking shit!", it wasn't enough. The men I just killed were the men hired to ambush Dean but I couldn't care about that. All I could think about were the past.

My chest was heaving up and down and I couldn't cool down. "Leave us", Maxx ordered Donnie and the others which was obeyed immediately . No one questioned anything. "Seth" "Don't fucking call me that name", I glared at him. He stared at me blankly. He sighed silently. "You can't be like that now. Remember..." "T remember all of it and that's the problem", I gripped my hair until my head hurt. "What happened ?", he asked. Maxx had been my best friend for all my life.

He'd been here since like forever. He knew everything about me, even if I don't tell him anything he always found a way to figure it out. "T told her" "Told her what?"