My eyes widened in horror as the body dropped next to me. I had to stifle another scream when it twitched and the all life left it. Blood begin to ooze from the hole in his chin. I gagged. It took all the strength I had not to vomit.
When the other men saw what happened to their leader, they came at Jo with all they had and amazingly I watched as he took them all out. This kind of stuff you only see on TV. The first man that reached him threw a punch but ended up getting his face smashed hard into the table causing the table to break in two.
No way he survived.
Jo did some kind of turn around the next guy taking his head with him; the sound of the man’s neck snapping like the sound of that first guys legs breaking will be forever seared in my memory. He picked up a chair and bought it down on the head of another man that dove to take out his feet, the chair broke apart leaving him holding both the legs in his hands…
And I kid y’all not, Jo used them legs to beat the hell out of the rest of the men. One after the other, they dropped until he was left standing there surrounded by bodies. When he saw there was nothing more to destroy he threw the sticks down and walked towards me.
I tried to scoot back away from him but my hands were slipping in the blood of the dead man with the spoon rammed into his head. Completely ignoring the fact that I was terrified of him he leaned down and scooped me up in his arms carrying me out the restaurant. He put me on my feet next to his car.
“Get in.” Was all he said after he opened the door for me.
I didn’t argue, I didn’t blink, I got in. The energy that was coming from him at that moment was astonishing.
“Are you alright?” He asked when he got into the car. With wide eyes I nodded. I was still not talking to Jo. As he drove he checked himself for injuries. He didn’t talk to me, so I didn’t talk to him. But I watched him.
Jo had checked out. This killing machine that now drove me was not sociable. He was like a robot.
What the hell?
He drove to a empty park and got out of the car. I sat there and watched him pace back and forward in front of the car. Several times he grabbed his head as if he couldn’t believe what he’d just done. Seeing him in anguish was tearing me apart, I wanted to comfort him, but I was afraid of him.
I can’t lie. What I just witnessed had freaked me out. Jo took out a whole army of men by himself, many of which he left dead. It was like he had been some kind of war machine.
After about thirty minutes he got back in the car and pulled off. Jo was back, he rubbed his hand down his face and I could sense him trying to figure out the best way to break the ice.
What the hell kind of Twilight Zone sh*t is this?!
“J—I…”
Looking straight ahead I waited for him to explain what I just saw.
“I’m sorry you had to see that.”
“What are you, Jo?” My question was so low I feared he may not have heard it.
“I’m a man.”
I shook my head. “No man can move like you did back there. You were faster and stronger than anything I have ever seen.”
He shook his head. “I’m just a man.” He clutched at his head as if he had a headache. Whatever it was going on with him, he was having a hard time reasoning within himself about it as well.
“You nearly killed Kyle.” My words were still very quiet, the last thing I wanted to do was wake that killing machine back up.
“That bastard had it coming.” He growled as he angrily drove down the street.
“Can you see that that’s not alright?” I kept my voice low.
He turned to look at me then, his handsome face twisted in anger.
“Why aren’t you yelling at me? Why are you talking to me like you think I will hurt you?” He hit the steering wheel and I damn near jumped out of my skin.
“J!” The anguished sound that came out his throat tore at my heart, but I still clutched the door handle for deal life. I couldn’t help it. You guys have no idea what I was dealing with. I was shaking all over.
“Baby, I will kill myself before I ever hurt you.”
I wanted to believe his whispered plea, but he wasn’t stable. We didn’t talk again until he pulled up in front of the cottage. He killed the engine.
“Tell me what I have to do to prove to you that I love you and I will never hurt you.” This was my first time ever seeing him so vulnerable. It was a complete mind screw after seeing him destroy a whole army of men by himself.
Now he looked at me like a lost little boy in desperate need of love. If I didn’t know any better, I would think that this powerful man actually needed me. Tears filled my eyes.
“If you love me, Jo,” My voice quivered so bad my words were barely recognizable. I paused and gathered myself.
“If you really love me…tear up the contract.”
Chapter Twelve
Letting Go
Journey
I almost believed the look of pain that came across his
