Page 29 of Kings of Desire
‘I asked you a question. I think that it would be wise to answer,’ the tone of his voice lost all trace of warmth, as my reality was once again crushing in on me. This man was as dangerous as it got, and I needed to still be breathing in the morning so I could go after Natalie and Sebastian. ‘Answer!’
His palms caught the upper part of my arms fully shaking me back to my senses.
‘My sister... My father has her and my brother,’ I inhaled deeply, bracing myself to tell what happened, not that I thought it would matter to him, but because with each word I was speaking I was realizing that going there in this state would only end us all. ‘My father has her guarded. Plans on selling her,’ I’m sure that I wasn’t making much sense, yet nothing seemed to make sense any longer. ‘I have to go get them,’ I spoke with my last remaining powers, acknowledging that I was boarding a suicide mission - or worse! But I had to try. It was my duty to try and protect them.
‘Shit, they left,’ Brax looked through the glass window behind me, catching the moment when he would have full access to his objective ‘Don’t move an inch. I’ll be back and we’ll talk about this. Got it?’
Brax didn’t expect an answer before storming off to meet the man we came here to see, but probably he should since I was still edging the line between desolation and reality.
A minute, maybe two... maybe even an hour flashed me by as I was drowning in a river of emotions, with fear the most potent of them all, subduing me under its wings and washing all reasoning away.
My feet carried me back to the lobby. I couldn’t wait any longer, no matter what that meant in the end. I was leaving with or without him, heading straight back to my old city.
I tried to see where he is and closing in on the room, I could hear men’s voices arguing. But I didn’t care anymore. I pushed the door open to inform Brax of my plans. I was supposed to be his partner, so a sudden headache could be excused at any time. Though myplanwas so far from seeing the light of day as the instant I pressed the doorknob, a muffled roar rushed through the air. A bullet just hit its target, finding its way between its victim’s eyes and filling the room with his red liquid.
It wasn’t a private meeting that I was aiding Brax to achieve.
It was an assassination!
My eyes filled with horror, staring at a killer while my voice let out an uncontrolled cry. The next seconds were foggy, and before I knew it, all air seemed to have abandoned my lungs. I was up against the wall, struggling to breathe while Brax’s hand was tightening around my neck to the point I thought I would hear my windpipe crack under his pressure ‘Shut the fuck up or you will get us both killed andI will end youbefore I let that happen!’
Although there wasn’t much room for my head to move, I desperately nodded, and in an instant found the relief I was searching for. I could breathe again.
‘Put this on,’ he took off his jacket, wrapping it all around me then dragged me out the door. ‘Things got heated and you had a little more than usual to drink. That’s how you will act on our way out, and that’s the story we’re sticking to if anyone asks. Got it?’
‘Y...yes,’ I mumbled as we were making our way through long corridors and back to the stairs that led to the main room.
‘You’d better.’ The snapping sound of his voice seemed to be even more threatening than the muffled sound of his gun.
We almost made it, cutting through the vibrant crowd with my arm pinned between his own, floating towards the exit. That’s before someone caught on to us ‘Leaving so soon?’ The hostess placed at the entrance rushed to ask, not really out of curiosity, but because it was in her job description. Though I didn’t realize that in those moments as everyone appeared to be plotting around us, and every single person in the room knew what Brax did.
My face was transfigured, changing colors as I barely kept myself standing, supporting my body weight on his arm.
‘She needs some one-on-one time,’ Brax winked at the hostess, putting on his charming smile on display, and escorting me out of there.
We were free! From all except our consciences.
‘You will keep quiet until we get to the jeep,’ he nudged me to get inside the car, waiting for the driver to close the door behind us and looking straight at the tears springing from my eyes.
The privacy window went up the instant our transportation took off, bringing Brax’s index finger to solder itself upon my shivering lips ‘Shush.’
And I did, for the rest of the trip, bottling a mixture of sensations that were almost making me throw up.
Reaching the same sinister field, we switched cars, revealing the true nature of Brax’s personality ‘What the fuck were you thinking?’ The shushed voice turned into a lion’s roar while his complexion was revealing the burning eyes of a dragon.
The eyes of a killer.
‘I...I..-’ I had no idea what to say or even what I was really thinking in those moments, just babbling away with words I didn’t understand myself.
My arms felt like they were melting, burned by torching flames, while the inside of the car was turning into an oven under his threatening gaze. With last of my strength, I pulled on the sleeves to take his tux jacket off my shoulders, letting it slip on the seat next to me. Yet my nightmare was far from over. Red dots were splattered all around my dress, as I realized that was the reason he rushed to cover me back at the mansion.
I was covered in blood!
A state of dizziness spread throughout my entire body as Natalia’s words along with the blood on my skin and clothes were pounding in every corner of my mind. ‘Blood...blood...,’ I rubbed my skin so roughly that it was starting to tear, though without any results. The blood was still there, mingling with drops of my own as my nails kept digging to erase it. That, until I felt a small sting somewhere around my neckline and everything turned black.
Brax
She fucking flipped out on me, so I had to calm her down somehow. It was either the injection or a bullet, and in a clear state of mind, she would certainly have chosen the first option.
