Page 68 of Blazing Desires
“I love you too, Mea Divina. Always have, always will.”
Now it’s her turn to smile. Like she can’t believe I returned the words she probably hasn’t heard since her mum was around. We seal our declaration with a heart-stopping kiss that’s full of promise and hope.
“Even when the earth stops turning,” I tell her.
We arrive at the house as night falls.
Even though we have everything planned, I can’t shake the uneasy feeling I have about our plan. This iseverything I want. I’ve spent my entire life gearing up for this moment to ruin Davina’s father, but now that it’s here and she’s in the firing line, I want to crawl out of my own skin.
I park the truck under a mile out, allowing us to walk to the back of the property’s expansive grounds. There’s a back entrance here that is lightly guarded due to the thick trees at its back, an oversight on Anthony Elodie’s part to underestimate the lengths people would go to, to get to him.
We stay quiet as we walk through the trees, Davina trailing behind me and stopping on command. So far all is quiet and we crouch behind a thicket of trees and bushes. I pull out my phone and tap away until I’ve hacked into the security system. I count four guards back here, two on the gate and two others a few feet away by the small guard house.
I’m already aware that it’s not only used as a guard house—underneath the building is a tunnel leading to the main property, an escape route built in for Anthony should the feds or any of the many enemies he’s made over the years come for him.
He made it too easy for me by hiring me. His onboarding method wasn’t as thorough as it should have been, I’d anticipated that. But I was never coming in here unprepared. I know this house like the back of my hand. I’d been exploring, playing and sneaking around here for years when my mum brought me here as a kid.
I’d been hacking into computers and software since the first time my mum took me to the library at seven years old. It’s easy for me. I thrive on the adrenaline of getting in and pulling apart data. It’s even more intoxicating when I get to use it to annihilate people who deserve it.
I monitor the guards for a while and show Davina that their behaviour is repetitive. They pace and turn or stand still as they sweep their gaze. I hit record as they repeat the cycle, creating aseamless loop that I can push onto their security camera feed as we make our entrance.
“Are you ready, my love?” I whisper.
She’s crouching next to me, close enough so that when I speak, my breath fans over her lips and they part. Her tongue dashes out as if she can taste me as she nods once. I can’t help myself—I press my lips to hers and capture her tongue with mine one last time. It’s a short kiss, and before either of us can take it further, I slip my hand into hers and help her stand.
We approach the gates on quiet feet, careful to not make any noise and avoiding as many of the twigs as we can. We need to be able to draw them out so I can take them out. I get into position, my back to the opening of the gate along the wall. I nod to Davina as she stands in a little clearing to the side of the gate, the sides that opens so they will see her first.
“Help! Help me, please!”
Her voice is muffled by the fake gag she put in her mouth, but I can hear the hoarseness in her voice from where my hands crushed her throat. I shove the loathing I have for myself deep into my mind.
Now is not the time. I need to focus.
Her wrists are bound by rope but in reality, it’s just wrapped around them as she holds the ends in the palm of her hands. I’d never tie her up for this. The only time it’ll happen is in the bedroom, driving her crazy until she begs me for my cock and I make her orgasm while screaming my name.
I hear them on the other side of the gate, “What was that?”
“I don’t know, sounded like…”
“We should check it out,” the other replies.
The gate groans open and one of the guards steps through. He’s a slight man and short in stature which should make this easy for me. This part of the property is loosely guarded and always has been, but this is just insulting.
“What the fu?—!”
I snatch him out of Davina’s direct line of sight, my hand over his mouth as I push the other into the soft flesh of his neck with my thumb, right into his pressure point. He’s out in under a minute. I lower his body to the ground, preparing myself for the next guard to come through.
Davina made me promise to keep the killing to a minimum. I wasn’t happy about it—these fuckers deserved to die after standing by and letting everything go down while not doing a single thing to stop it. While doing nothing to protect her. I’ll keep my promise, for now. But if they touch a single hair on her head, they will lose their fucking hands and then their life. I won’t play with her safety like that.
The other guard comes through, sees Davina, and takes a step toward her with his gun drawn. I push the silencer on my gun into his meaty scalp.
“I suggest you drop your fucking weapon before I paint these grounds with your blood,” I growl quietly.
His hands are up in surrender before the words have fully left my mouth. I snatch the gun from him and empty the clip, throwing the pieces in different directions. I have him on the ground and out cold before he can register what has happened. The commotion draws the other two guards as we had planned.
“Alright you two, stop fucking around and get back to your post!” one of them shouts as they walk over to the open gate.
The other goon speaks out toward us. “For fucks sake, this wasn’t funny the first time you two pulled this prank on us yesterday!”
