The Bride He Refused to Lose
Lorenzo slammed his combat boot onto the accelerator, the armored SUV launching forward as they cleared the final industrial gate.
Ahead of their perimeter... a massive, roaring inferno of bright orange flames was aggressively tearing into the midnight sky. Warehouse Seven was actively burning, the historic wooden rafters groaning under the thermal strain.
And standing perfectly upright on the high, unobstructed apex of the metal roof... holding a terrified, bleeding Leo Elmundo by the collar of his shirt at absolute gunpoint... was the scarred, ruthless frame of Vincent Hale.
Vincent looked directly down through the smoke toward the headlights of Lorenzo’s approaching SUV, a sick, triumphal