Lia’s POVPain was the first thing I felt the moment I woke up. A searing ache that ran through every one of my limbs, skill pounding as if someone had split it into two with an axe.Where the hell am 1?The bitter taste of blood on my lips made me wince in pain. My lips were swollen, and when I forced my eyes open, everything suddenly started making sense.I remembered surrendering to Dante as a distraction for Kade and Damon to escape, before he knocked me unconscious. I tried to push myself up, but my hands are shaking.This room didn’t feel like a prison cell, but it was a prison all the same. Luxury dripped from every corner—black polished marble floors with chandeliers that shone cold and cruel.No windows, only heavy steel doors that were heavily guarded by men in black. Their guns shining under the bright light, aimed at nothing but everyone at once.Then I heard it.It was no doubt the sound of Dante’s voice. “Awake at last, ehhh?” He hissed, strolling into the room like he o
Kade’s POV“DAMN IT!!!” “FUCK!!!!!”The roar ripped from my throat, walls shaking with the brutal force of my fist slamming against the concrete. Pain tore up my injured arm, fresh blood reopening along my knuckles. But I welcomed it.Pain was the only thing grounding me from shattering into pieces right now. “That stupid, stubborn….”“What the hell did she do that for!” “Why doesn’t she listen to me!”“I told her not to fuckin go. But no…. Lia Morgan would do what she wanted when she made up her mind.”I hit the wall again, again, and again until blood dripped down against it in violent streaks. My body shook with rage. Lia was gone.That fucking bastard, Dante had her.The words sliced through the air. I slammed my fist against the concrete until the pain seared my palm, each strike nothing more than an action of fury that would make me feel a bit better.“That little… she gave herself to him. She just let him take her.” I spat the accusations in the air like venom, as if talking
Lia’s POVScreams, shouts, and the metallic echo of bullets collide with steel, filling every corner of the room until my ears ring. “Kade…” I barely completed my words before his hand gripped my wrist.Dragging me down the corridor as shatters of wood rained from bullets chewing through every corner of the wall.“Stay down!” He barked, shoving me forward just as another gunshot shattered the windows behind us. Dantes’s men were everywhere now—storming the safe house in relentless numbers.Blood sprayed the walls in an instant as one of Kade’s men took a bullet straight through the neck, collapsing onto the floor with a strangled gurgle. Another was hit instantly in the chest, his scream cut short as he fell face-first onto the floor.I stumbled over his body, my shoes almost slipping across the pool of blood on the floor. Every cry of agony and lifeless bodies hitting the ground, a merciless realization that Kade’s army was now being cut down, man by man. Nothing more could stop Dan
Selene’s POV“AHHHHHH!”The scream ripped from my throat, shaking the confined space of my car as I slammed my fists against the steering wheel again and again until the horn blared.“Damn you, Kade!” I spat through clenched teeth, my voice breaking with fury. “Damn you for choosing her! For humiliating me, for throwing me away like trash…..all because of that filthy whore!”Tears blurred my vision, but they weren’t weak or sorrowful tears—they were poisonous from the rage that had already consumed me whole. “I should have killed her the moment I saw her,” I hissed.My chest rising and falling in heavy gasps as I gripped my hair, tugging at the strands until pain shot across my scalp.”I could have just ripped the fucking bitch with my bare hands before she had the chance to crawl into your bed.”His words replayed like annoying music over and over in my head. The way his eyes turned cold when he told me to leave. All because of her.Kade belonged to me, but that little slut has found
Lia’s POVMy wrists were still bruised from the way he had slammed them above my head. His body pressed against mine with intense heat coming off him like fire, his command ringing in my ears, our eyes still locked on each other.“I’m not your fucking toy, Kade. I’m not your possession.” I said, forcing the words out of my mouth with every fiber of boldness. “You can bark orders all you want but I won’t do it.”“Kade’s jaw tightened, his eyes getting darker as they pierced through me. He pulled back just slightly—just enough to give me the illusion of space. “You think you’re stronger now,” he murmured, voice low and deadly.“Ehhhh, little princess?”He let go of my wrists, one of his hands trailing down my waist, taunting me intentionally. Every nerve in my body screamed to run, and I hated….hated….the way my skin melted under his touch.“Open it,” Kade ordered, his eyes flickering toward the bed, landing on the small black box that I never even noticed earlier. “Put it on.”I lifted
Lia’s POVI woke up to the ache of betrayal still lodged deep in my chest. The memory of last night replayed over and over in my head like a damn annoying song that wouldn’t stop. He fucking chose Selene over me, after saving his useless life. My hands curled into fists against the sheets, “ I hate him so much…I’ll hate him from now on.”“I’ll hate him,” I whispered to myself through clenched teeth. Hating Kade was the only thing that would stop me from feeling so much pain, this nightmare he has pulled me into.The creak of the door behind me drifted me off my thoughts. I turned to look up sharply at Damon standing there, his broad shoulders filling the doorway.“The boss wants you in his room. Right now.”My stomach twisted. After what he’s done he still had the guts to ask of me, fucking jerk. “Tell him I’m not coming.” I shot back. “If he needs someone, Selene is there. I’m sure only she’s enough for him, right?”Damon didn’t flinch. “It’s not a request from him, Lia. It’s an ord