FAZER LOGINThe gunshot echoed, louder than the others. For a second, Justin locked eyes with me, confusion woven into his expression.Then her body hit the floor and the haze of red anger that had been my fuel calmed. Blood stained through the light grey hoodie she wore.My grip on the man before me loosened and he shoved me off, picking up his gun. Before he could raise it, I took aim, planting a bullet in his hand. He cried out in pain and from the corner of my eye, I saw Justin rush towards him.My mind was fixed on one thing though. The limp figure collapsed on the floor. Alex rushed towards her, Dimitri right behind him, his eyes scanning the various injuries on his skin.More gunshots filled the air. I recognized the moment the third man who had come in with us, standing outside, fell. They were escaping, but my mind could not seem to give that any relevance in the face of Ariella dying."Fuck." I shrugged my suit jacket off, pressing it into the bullet wound. "We need to get her to a fuck
The gunshots got louder, closer. And each round brought about another wave of panic on Vaughn's face."How the fuck did he find this place? I thought your men were certain they weren't followed?" He glared at Justin, trying to remain calm.Justin, fingers still gripping Alex's hair tightly, nodded. "They weren't.""So how the fuck did he find us so quickly?" Vaughn glanced at me, his confusion boiling into rage."The men will take care of it. If we're lucky, you might just get that revenge you've been hoping for today." Justin chuckled, still confident enough to believe he had anything on Killian’s influence and power.Someone outside screamed, loud enough to make Alex flinch and the rest of us tear our eyes from each other back to the door.Vaughn reached into his desk, pulling out a handgun and nodding towards Justin, who pulled his weapon from his pocket.Mumbled voices echoed through, just as the handle was cracked off and the door pushed open with a creak.A man was pushed onto t
Despite the pain, my eyes snapped open, locking with the man who had spoken.For a second, I was back at the mall, staring at that beautiful dress with this man behind me."How are you here?" He had seemed familiar back then. Enough to trigger a panic attack and make me assume he was a client.He wore a black suit fitted in a way that made me realize that Killian made the suits attractive, not the other way around."I'm sure you have a lot of questions. Let's get away from this place and clear up those blank spaces." He turned, walking toward a flight of stairs without railings.There were exactly eighteen steps. Alex's eyes darted around, staring at the unimpressive features of the building. Considering the lack of paint, tiles, and adequate electricity, it was safe to assume this place was abandoned.Alex had said we were somewhere in Indiana. Killian might be searching this city at this moment, but the chances of him finding us here couldn't have been very high.We might need to es
The silence went on forever, the only interruption being the wet sounds of Alex sobbing in the room beside my prison and Justin's grunts of pleasure.There was no point imagining, just like there was no mystery about what was happening to him.By the time the door opened, hours had passed and my mind had nearly adjusted to the solitude. After all, it was nothing new.Someone whimpered, their feet scratching against the cement floors. Finally, the body settled next to me, smelling of sex and blood."Alex?" My voice cracked. "Pull it off, please."His fingers grazed my skin, lifting the blindfold with trembling hands.The sun had set hours ago, and the only light came from the moonlight peeking through the window and the flickering light bulb.Still, the dim lighting was enough to show all the damage that bastard had done to his body."I got us something to eat. You must be starving." He pulled out two squares wrapped in foil. "I'm so sorry for dragging you back into this. I should have
The car kept going for over an hour. By the time it stopped, the man had zip-tied my hands behind my back and blindfolded me.“Where are we?” Alex asked, his voice clear.The question was followed by the harsh sound of skin hitting skin, Alex whimpering, and my flinch.“Shut the fuck up. I don’t want to fucking hear you until I return you.”My body was dragged into what might have been a building. After climbing multiple steps, it was clear the building was huge. My chances of escaping grew thinner by the minute. My hands were tied, literally and figuratively.Eventually, the man pushed me onto a cold cement floor, then a heavy door slammed shut.For a second, the blindness, silence, and inability to move my arms made me panic. Pain spiked through my arms when they struggled against the ties.“Calm down. You’re only going to hurt yourself. You know better.” I flinched. I didn’t know better, but that didn’t mean any part of me was ready to hear Alex’s voice unless it was to give an exp
The noise from the crate tore my attention from my latest lead.Just as we were about to move out to inspect, the man spoke up. More confident than before, like he knew something we didn't."I almost forgot to say. That pretty brunette that came in here before, he's been Mr. Drake's bitch for years now. At least since Mr. Drake started working with our boss."My eyebrow shot up. What he was saying was nothing new, but how he said it made me realise the huge mistake we might've made by trusting Alex so quickly."I understand you need the win, but piss me off and I'll pay your daughter and everyone else in your fucking family a not-so-friendly visit."His eyes went wide, completely fixed on me rushing down the stairs.The whole place was empty. Then the engine revved.I rushed outside, Larson hot on my heels, to find Dimitri running after a Lexus and Ruth firing at it until it turned the corner and they both lost it."What's wrong? What happened?""They got her." Ruth slammed her gun ag
The whole ride back home, my mind was in scrambles. Everything had gone wrong right from the hospital, when my bubble of denial finally popped. She'd remained tucked in her room since we got back about an hour ago, but even in her absence she still invaded my thoughts.Keeping her next to me was
My family had always dealt more in the drug trade and arms than prostitution. It didn't mean we had no hand in it, though. We simply chose not to get involved. It wasn't exactly us being self-righteous, considering we traded human organs as well. The gruesome sight my monitor displayed made my st
Dinner last night was probably the most awkward experience in mankind's history. I got the feeling that Killian and his dad didnt get along much. And throughout the drive to this fancy ass hospital the morning, killian looked lost, almost guilty everything he met my gaze.We sat in some kind of w
He didn't turn back again until he reached the car. Like always, he pulled open the passenger seat door for me, but he didn't acknowledge me otherwise. "I wasn't pretending." The silence had been chocking, and it had taken minutes of the car ride back for me to find enough of my voice to speak. "







