Page 18 of Creed's Vengeance

“I wasn’t meant to live from this,” Opal said.

“Go!” I roared again.

“No.” She stood firmly behind me.

“I can’t protect you and my brother.”

“I’m not planning on living through this.”

“You’re pregnant with Kobra’s kid. I won’t let you die.”

That’s when a solider hit the alert button and the red sirens rang through the house. It was the signal that the family were under attack.

All right. Change of plans.

“Slater,” I roared at him as he kept shooting at anyone that stepped out of the corridor. “We need to get out of here.”

“Not until I’ve killed them.” He dropped another gun, to pick up another from a dead body. He was asking to be shot, standing in the open. I took out a soldier who stepped up behind him, from around the stairs.

“The old man is dead, it’s time to go.” He was still shooting. “Think of Ivy.” I roared at his back. He was shooting like he wasn’t planning on living.

He took a step back. “Take Opal to the car. I’ll cover.” I yelled and dropped down, picking up a dead soldier’s AK. “I started spraying bullets, as I backed out of the house. Slater had got Opal in the car, and I ran for the driver’s door. “The gates will be locking.”

Slater was on his phone. “I’m typing in the codes before them.”

“What locking us in here?” The way he was shooting it wouldn’t surprise me if he was. He wanted everyone of dad’s men dead.

“No, the gate delays after each failed code.”

I looked up, rounding the corner of the driveway and that’s when I see the gates nearly closed. I put my foot down and the gates sliced the sides of the car and took the mirrors off. But we were out.

“Are we being followed?” I asked, my eyes on the road.

“No.” Slater looked back. “I made sure they wouldn’t be.” And I glanced at him. “I had planned on killing him tonight. On the chance we made it out. I made sure the cars were disabled.”

I glanced from the road to him. “You weren’t planning on surviving that, where you?”

I looked back at him.

Slater looked at me, and it is the first time I see emotion on my brothers face. “I’d die for my family. If my life is what it took to take the heat of the Kincaid’s. Then I would willingly die.”

I let out long breath as I turned onto the highway.

“I’m so confused,” Opal spoke up. “I should be dead.”

I laughed.

“Sweetheart, you did the one thing we were planning on doing tonight.” I looked in the rear-view mirror at her shocked face that had a spray of blood across it. “We wanted him dead.”

She just shook her head. “Each one of you are completely fucked up.”

Slater and I laughed.

He nodded his head. “Yeah, you could say that.”

“You killed your family for the Kincaid’s. You realise that right?”

Slater and I shared a look. “Oh we know.” I had a smile on my face and my brother’s lips were twitched up. I couldn’t explain it but I swear the expression on his face was peace.

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