He jerked her to him. “No more of that, Eve,” he growled in her ear. “You have to come with me, now. Please.”

He didn’t even sound breathless, and her heart pounded in her chest, her breathing loud.

“Where?” she managed to choke out.

“Back.” He whirled her around and nudged her back in the direction they came.

She obliged, what fight she had abandoning her.

“Why don’t you just kill me?”

“It matters not to me,” he murmured. “I will get you back there one way or the other. But it would be far easier if you just come willingly. You’ll see that. You will. I promise.”

“But where?” she demanded.

“You really don’t know, do you?”

His voice held a hint of awe.

Was he so surprised? She opened her mouth to ask, but his grip fell away and his cry of pain echoed in her ear.

“Run, Evelyn!”

She whirled to stare wide-eyed at her rescuer.