Chapter 61

• Belle
• The silence in the safe house was suffocating. The kind of silence that followed an explosion — the ringing in your ears, the weight of everything that just happened still pressing down on your chest. I could feel it in my bones, in the pit of my stomach. We were still alive, but barely. And Jake... Jake had nearly let the monster who’d tried to kill us walk away.
• I couldn’t understand it. Anger surged in my throat, thick and choking. Why? Why hadn’t he just pulled the damn trigger?