Chapter 71 - Black Prey

The creatures around made enticing noise, the sun at its highest peak but soon be descending for the night hour.

Liam approached the warehouse a few distances away from him. 

"Boss can...you... hear" Kayla's voice was breaking from Liam's comm.

"Kayla I can't hear you," Liam said.

The connection got bad the moment he steps into the woods.

"Boss...bos...bo" the connection died down.

That moment Liam stood in front of the warehouse, eyeing the worn-out building in the middle of nowhere. 

Ghost surges out of him.

"Ghost smell them, lots of them," Ghost said smirking.

Liam huffed, his eyes holding a foul mood.

"Great a trap" Liam said in a bored tone.

That moment, Claws drops down from the rooftop circling them, like they were the prey and they were a predator.

They roared and snarled in response as their nails grew sharper.

Ghost chuckled deeply, seeing enough to kill, waiting for Liam to give the order, the excitement thrilling his inside.

"Listen," Liam said practically bored.

"Am only here for one thing only and then... I will kill all of you".

They snarled in response.

"I want the name of your distributor".

"You don't get to make demands" a voice came in.

Liam's eyes move towards the entrance, as Cassandra steps out dragging Lorna behind.

Their eyes met but as quickly as they did, Liam's eyes drift back to Cassandra.

"We have something else you want," she said amused.

Liam raises an eyebrow.

"What makes you think I want her?" he asked sternly.

"I saw what you did, don't lie black ghoul, you were stalling when you could have easily killed her".

"That doesn't justify what am here for!" Liam snaps, his body tensing.

Lorna could tell he was irritated by her words, was it true then? Or he was irritated by something else, it was impossible to read the cold expression he always holds up, it was like staring at a blank paper.

"Am here for the name of your distributor, and I need answers, trust me am a very impatient man" Liam said as his body erupts with a black aura around him, it was faint but could go bizarre at any moment.

Lorna gulps at the sight.

"Tick tock" Ghost said in amusement, itching to get the killing started.

Lorna could feel Cassandra stiffen at the sound of Ghost's inhuman voice, she was scared good, cause so was Lorna, there was no way they had the chance against the black ghoul. But little does she know Cassandra had something up her sleeve, she smirks in a sick twisted way.

"How about we play a game then," she said unable to hold the amusement, as she giggles slightly.

Lorna gave her way a look. 'Did the drug mess up her head too'. Lorna thought, she shivers at the thought, because this girl was practically sounding crazy right now, they were in a life or death situation, and yet she's suggesting they played hide and seek.

Liam was silent and it was awful deadly, his need to kill made it harder to breathe, she was surprised he was still standing not making a move to snap her neck. Yes, he wouldn't because if he did he wouldn't get the information he needed, the only reason he hasn't killed everyone here was that he hadn't gotten what he came for and Lorna knew that, Cassandra was sick thinking the black ghoul came for her, it was obvious it was the opposite.

"Let's play hide and seek" she offered.

"Excuse me?" Liam said as he heard wrong, this kid was crazy, he couldn't help the rage boiling inside him the moment he saw Lorna being dragged out her hands tied behind her back but Liam knew all too well that she was an agent and not Riley, he kept telling himself that, it took everything in his power not to leash out on the nuts girl, Ghost could feel it too, he growls in response.

"Yes hide and seek, this agent runs far as she can get, it's probably miles away out here. And then we chase, I find her and then I kill her, it's your loss cause am super hungry" Cassandra said amused.

'Bitch' Lorna thought wondering why she felt empathy for this girl.

"And then if you find her, we give you the name you so badly want, you will have to fight through us to get to her that is" she adds.

The rest of the Claws snarled in response.

'He won't agree to this, he's so impatient' Lorna thought remembering their previous encounters, but all that came crashing down when her eyes land on Liam and Ghost.

"You have got to be fucking kidding me," Lorna said with wide eyes.

Liam had a dark twisted smirk that was similar to that of Ghost, it was like staring at a mirror at their twisted amusement. The black aura retreats inside him and he said words that made Lorna's heartbreak.

"Let's play!"

Cassandra's eyes danced in amusement at his answer, she loses Lorna's restraint, her hands-free.

"A head start," She said as her body vibrated, signaling she was transforming to her Claw.

Making sure she stares daggers at Liam which he didn't recognize, she bolts as fast as she could.

Liam's eyes never left Cassandra as her body vibrates, they waited, it was calm, the wind blowing around until an hour passed. Cassandra fully transformed roaring as she dashes out with the rest of her team to the distance Lorna ran in. 

Liam and Ghost stood still, he took a deep breath closing his eyes.

The game has begun.

***

With harsh panic breath, Lorna ran as fast as she could, her body brushing the leaves and branches, some prick her skin but she didn't care, she didn't care about the pain but her life which was at stake right now. She was being hunted like prey running from wide animals and the moment they find her, she was a goner, that thought alone made her mind race more. For a brief second she turned, her breath sharp and fast, no one was behind her, good, she might just be able to outrun them and get the hell out of here before she was Claw food, she turns forward but gasps as a roaring Claw was right in front of her before she could blink the Claw used the back of it's hand to slam her chest, she was sent flying as her back came in contact with a tree branch, blood spill from her mouth as she lands on the ground hard.

She held her chest in pain, it was unbearable. The claw roars coming at her in speed, she waited for the worse but Ghost zaps in clawing at the Claw ripping it to pieces roaring, the Claw fades in the dust.

Lorna forced her body to sit up, her back against the branch, easing herself out of pain.

Ghost growls tilting his head to the side, his body vibrates in the black aura, Lorna watch as he switches places with Liam, Liam stood right in front of her with an unreadable expression.

"Get up" he hissed marching towards her and then grabbing her hand harshly, pulling her up with no much strength and then dragging her with him. 

"Let me go," Lorna said in pain, but he didn't listen, pissed she snap.

"GET YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF ME!" with enough force she could muster she pulled her arm away from his touch.

He faces her.

"Don't you ever touch me again" she pointed with angry eyes, ignoring the intense pain in her chest.

"I just fucking saved your life" Liam snap.

"I didn't ask for it!" she hissed.

She scoffs.

"The black ghoul saving an agent, a taint to your reputation that is" she mocked.

Liam looks away.

"According to that crazy girl you have been stalling, yes you have ever since that day," she said, Lorna couldn't hold it in anymore, she needed to confront him about his strange actions. 

Liam's gaze lands back at her, his ghoul eyes burning in her green ones.

"Why don't you just go ahead and kill me, why are you hesitating? Is it because I look like that Riley Leah" she said, saying the name made her unsettled.

Liam grabs her wrist tightly, pulling it up plunging her forward, her body brush against his briefly, the feeling made her shiver, her body reacting to it in all sought of ways she didn't want. 

She gulps staring into his angry eyes, her head back a bit to meet his gaze because of how tall he was.

"Don't say her name" he warns.

Lorna's body tense at his harsh words that held threat, she's rethinking the thought about him not wanting to kill her, cause right now she saw the killing intent in his eyes.

"Are you going to kill me? "

Lorna mentally slap herself for asking such a question, of course, he would if he wanted to, it was obvious in his eyes, right now she was just not the prey of those hungry Claws but his prey and he was the predator.