Crossing The Line. Kierney Scott

animal than human.

      Her head jerked up and that is when she saw it: in a large clear bag, four severed heads.

      “Oh God.” Beth sprung up. In an instant she was at Raul’s side, her arms around him for support. He screamed again as his legs bucked and he collapsed down on the worn floorboards of the porch, bringing Beth crashing down with him. She never loosened her hold. There were no words, nothing she could say to begin to numb the pain so she just held him as he screamed.

      She closed her eyes. She had no emotions left, but she didn’t need them because she could feel all of his, each drop of pain that fell from him was absorbed by her, became her own. “I will catch the man who did this. I promise. I swear I will make him pay.”

      Her words were swallowed by his sobs.

      “I promise,” she said again and it was true. These people’s lives meant something. All of them. Beth was going to bring El Escorpion down.

      He would pay.