“If he’s been through both portals, like Skelton said, he’ll have all sorts of tricks we’ve never seen before, or at least not in a long time,” Jamie reminded them.

“He’s one scary son of a bitch,” Cadence agreed. “But Christian has left us little choice. Maybe if he would’ve stayed here, we could’ve gone over there and fought the symptoms, taken out his henchmen, cut off his blood supply. But now... our hands are tied. We can’t leave him there....”

“Well....” Elliott began.

“There it is. I’ve been waiting for it this whole time.” Aaron smirked at his friend, but it was clearly a warning, too.

“I’m just kidding.”...