Chapter 272: You Will Come with Me

She turned and faced the pesky invader. Faced those black eyes that already had red tendrils mixing in with the midnight color.

The silence from her colleagues behind her was deafening. She connected with that red devil's gaze and lost the ability to breathe. He towered over her. Standing much closer than she thought he'd be, and he had the sheer nerve to run his silver scanner thing over her body. None of them had ever seen him do much more than run the scanner over humans and inject them with a pen-like instrument that made a small hissing sound when he injected who-knew-what into them. Even more aggravating was the fact that everyone he treated that way walked out of the hospital healed.

"See anything interesting?" she asked and wanted to bite off her own tongue. Behind her the collective breaths being taken in broke the silence.