Chapter 7
Six days later
“Do you think we’re ready?” Rhys looked at Liam, needing the reassurance his partner believed they could do this.
Liam shrugged. “Will we ever be? I just don’t want anyone else to die. Our monster may not be here solely because of us, but it wants us. With that dead drug kingpin as part of the mix now, it just wants to kill. Anybody. Everybody, especially Americans, law enforcement people on both sides and maybe relatives of any Mexicans who opposed him. The soul-eater lurking inside the ghost, or whatever it is, is feeding off the victims. He gets stronger with each one, so he doesn’t care. He’ll give Alamodovar free rein so long as he can suck up the life energies of each person they kill. But he wants us, both of us, together. He said so.”
Rhys thought a
