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“You stupid fucking cunt,” he hissed venomously. His rage-filled eyeswere wide, his nostrils flaring. “You’ll fucking pay for that.”
I held the knife by my side, holding on to it like it was my lifeline, butin a way it was. If Hendrix disarmed me, I’d be fucked. My heart thundered in my chest, and adrenaline made my legs shake, but I held my nerve. He was wounded now, that surely went in my favor.
“Give the knife to me, Riley, and your punishment won’t be assevere,” he growled.
“Get fucked,” I replied, bracing myself for him to launch at me.
Movement from over his shoulder caught my eye, and my browspulled into a frown when it seemed like the wall was moving.
I wondered if Hendrix had given me a concussion when he hit mebecause there was no way the wall should be moving. But then, my breath caught in my throat as from behind the wall, a figure stepped out.
A dark knight coming to rescue his queen.
My lips pulled into a relieved smile when a murderous-looking Kaisilently stepped into the room. I’d always wondered how he’d managed to sneak into my room during the time I’d been sulking after the incident with Toby. I’d put the chest of drawers across the door to stop him from coming in, yet every morning I’d awoken to his scent filling my room. I’d never figured out how he was getting in, but now I knew.
“What the fuck are you smirking at?” Hendrix said, my eyes snappingback to meet him.
Behind him, Kai gave me a small nod, letting me know it was okay totell Hendrix he was there.
“My husband,” I replied with smug satisfaction.
Chapter 29
Kai
AssoonasMilesstopped the car, I marched over to the passengerside and dragged Rafe out by his collar. “This is your fault, you little fucker! If anything happens to my wife, I’m going to gut you, and feed you your intestines!”
Rafe glowered at me, his fingers trying to tug my hands away fromhis shirt. The twenty Bianchi guards he’d brought with him had all aimed their guns at me, but I had no fucks to give.
I was a walking volcano about to erupt.
“My sister’s been taken as well, dickhead,” Rafe growled back,feeding my fury. I slammed him against the car, knocking the wind out of his lungs.
“And whose fault is that, huh? You were the cunt who handed Rileyand Sofia over to the guard,” I roared.
“I didn’t fucking know he was working for Hendrix!” Rafe bellowedback, his voice echoing into the night sky.
“Kai, let him go. This isn’t going to solve anything,” Miles grumbled.
He looked like he’d been in World War Three with the amount ofblood and grime he had on him. But from what he’d said about the attack on the Bianchis, it sounded like World War Threehadlanded in Forest Point.
I let go of Rafe. As much as I wanted to throttle him, we needed allthe manpower we could get if we were going to go up against The Stags. I would deal with the cunt later for his incompetence. I stepped back, and slowly the Bianchi guards lowered their weapons.
Taking a breath to calm the fire burning inside me, I checked mywatch. It had already been two hours since Miles’ call informing me of the attack. By a stroke of fucking luck, I was already halfway to Hollows Bay when he called.
After Miles and Riley left for the dinner party, we headed for the city.Ash had stayed behind to figure out how to override the security system, but the rest of the team and I intended to take out two priority targets, Carlos and Markus, before we moved on to Hendrix.
I hadn’t told Riley of the plan knowing she’d worry, just like she did onthe night we killed Thorne, so to let her enjoy her evening, I’d kept it quiet. Miles knew the plan, but I’d sworn him to secrecy.
But when Miles phoned with the news of the attack, our planschanged. He told us that about fifty armed men attacked the property with semi-automatic weapons and grenades. They’d hit hard and fast, taking out half the Bianchi guard before they even got a single shot off.
Whoever attacked weren’t trained killers though, and within a fewminutes, Miles, Rafe, Georgio, and the remainder of the guard gained the upper hand, killing a number of the men before the rest fled like the pussies they were.
Once the dust settled, Rafe went to check on Riley and Sofia, who’dbeen taken to the panic room, only to discover they weren’t there. Upon checking the camera footage, Rafe and Miles watched as two Bianchi guards handed the girls over to two balaclava-clad men, before a third put a bullet in the heads of the Bianchi guards.
When the dead bodies of the men who attacked were searched, itdidn’t take long to discover the stag tattoos, and it didn’t take long to put the pieces together. Hendrix was behind the attack, meaning my wife had been hand-delivered to him.
Miles, Rafe, and a number of the Bianchi guards were already en route to Hollows Bay, and despite my demands that we went straight to my old building and launch an attack, I saw sense. It would be a suicide mission if we didn’t have a plan, especially as Ash still hadn’t gotten past the system.
