Chapter 63

I turned around quickly and saw Tyson standing there with a cruel smile playing on his lips. My first instinct was to stand in front of my daughter and protect her from his gaze. He seemed to notice my actions because he laughed cruelly.

“I’ve already had her for a day,” he laughed. “I could have seen things you didn’t even want me to see. I have to admit though, your daughter is beautiful. It is a shame she isn’t ours. If she was, she would have been spared all of this.”

“If you lay one finger on my child,” Ryker growled and Tyson turned his angry and hate filled eyes to him.

“Oh, I forgot you were here. Ryker Caine, the knight in shining armor. I expected that you would be the one to come here. I thought you would try to save your child in a heroic act of bravery. It would have given me sick pleasure to gut you like a fish, but I got the mother instead. Not a terrible bargain, but I’ll live.”

“Tyson,” I called and he turned to me. “You’re outnumbered here, so I’m going to tell you how this will go. I am going to release my daughter and we are all going to walk out of here alive or you will be gutted like a fish.”

He stared at me for a long second and his eyes took in the people in the room. He seemed to realize that he actually was outnumbered seeing as both Ryker and I were free and he was the common enemy. His beady eyes took in the room and then to my shock, he started laughing.

I was taken aback by his laugh and I cast a wary glance at Ryker who was also looking at me with the same shocked expression. Tyson laughed with such reckless abandon and clutched his ribs as if he was going to keel over from the force of the laughter.

“It’s funny that you think I will let you go that easily,” he said as he wiped a stray tear from his face. “The thing is Camilla, that I have doused this entire house with gasoline. If you make one wrong move, then I will set this place ablaze with all of you in it. I’m not against dying but do you really want the monarchy to end with you?”

I realized that he had a point and it was at that moment that the scent of gasoline filtered into my nose. I cast a wary glance at Ryker and I knew that I couldn’t risk calling his bluff so I raised my hands in surrender and took an unwilling step away -from my daughter. I moved closer to my mother and away from the door.

Tyson smiled widely while Ryker looked at me confused and once I was close enough to my mother, I slowly put my hands down.

“You’re right,” I said to him making sure to keep his eyes on my face as I slowly took out a pocket knife from my back. “I’m the one you want, right? Let my daughter go safely and I will stay here with you.”

“No,” Ryker said almost immediately and Tyson’s eyes flashed over to him.

I used the moment of distraction to slip the pocket knife into my mother’s hands. Her eyes went to mine and I gave her a discreet nod. She let out a sigh of relief and I saw her start to work on her bonds. I knew it would only be a moment of time before she would be able to get herself free and maybe her powers would be of good use to us. As far as I checked, there is no water source around here and mine would be a waste.copy right hot novel pub