Page 322 of Eternal
No one. No one touches my Azra.
Since the moment he smiled. That filthy smile. The way he looked at her like she was property.
He’s paying for it.
Blood splatters hot, wild and hypnotic on me. On my shirt.
I can hear them. His muffled whimpers. His voice tried to escape, but the violence devoured every word.
“Why?” he breathes, gasping, eyes wide, horrified.
I tilt my head, cold, distant. And I whisper the only answer I find to every question. “Forher.”
He stares at me, fading, then spits, “You betrayed your country for a woman… A killer ... How do you even sleep at night?”
I smile. “Next to my woman, well-fed, well fucked, her thighs around me and your blood on my hands.”
He tries to speak again, but the air leaves his lungs. Life fades. I watch him die. “Only a stupid bastard threatens the woman of someone crazier than himself.”
She will live. She has a mission to finish.
I let his body collapse, blood pooling, soaking into the dirt. The flowers around are almost all covered in red and I rise.
My mind spinning, rage, devotion, madness all tangled into one.
I see him dead at my feet.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
He’s dead, right here, in the Lebanese compound.
I lit one cigarette, let the ashes fall on his body. Look up at the sky, take a final drag, then crush the butt on his forehead.
Deserved.
He tried to hurt the only person that matters to me.
I walk back inside, blood on me.
At the entrance, I spot Niko and Elijah. They look confused as I lean against the wall next to them.
“Your agent in charge ofVoronis a fucking bastard,” I say, calm. “He tried to betray her.”
Niko chuckles. “So you killed him?”
I nod, like it’s nothing.
“Where is he now?” Volkov asks.
I tilt my head toward the back of the courtyard, near the woods. “He deserved it.”
Niko laughs again, pulls out his phone, and starts typing, probably texting his cleanup crew. “Elijah’s a bit like that too, don’t worry. Dead bodies at our events are almost routine now.”
That actually makes me laugh. “Goddamn. Women really can be dangerous.”
Azra. Azra. Azra.
My fucked-up Azra who makes me go insane.
