Page 115 of Bratva Jewels Box Set
“Brace yourselves, guys, it’s going to get ugly,” Brooks tells us.
Mateo pulls me in tighter. There’s another big bang as they ram us again, and the back window shatters as a bullet goes through it.
I scream. I’m so fucking scared. These maniacs are trying to kill us.
We get bumped again, and this time we are pushed sideways. We hit something, and the world turns upside down, repeatedly as if we are in a washing machine. My body is flung around, my head hits something hard, and everything goes black.
I come to from the haziness, and as my ears pick up the sound of gunfire, the adrenaline in my body kicks in, but I stay where I am, slumped on the ground. Slowly, I open my eyes, surveying what is happening before me.
“Give her to me!” Nikolai screams as he and his bodyguards take shots at Brooks and the driver.
“Zoe, are you okay?” Mateo whispers behind me.
I turn my head and see him and Tomas huddled behind a big clump of grass in a ditch on the side of some deserted highway in the middle of the fucking desert in Morocco.
“Yeah, just sore.” I rub my body, checking myself, trying not to draw Nikolai’s attention. Everything aches.
Mateo gestures. “You need to come to us.”
Looking around, I can see everyone else is distracted, so I commando crawl to where Mateo and Tomas are huddled. They pull me into their arms as soon as I reach them.
Tomas presses up against me. “I promise we’re not going to let him take you, no matter what.”
“I will not let him hurt you two.” Don’t they get it? He will kill them.
“Fuck.” We hear the driver groan as he is hit and drops to the ground. Brooks fires off a couple of rounds and takes out Nikolai’s two guards.
I scream as I watch the bullets go through their heads, their lifeless bodies falling. I start to shake as shock sets in.
“We are going to get out of here. We just need to hold off Nikolai until Enrique comes,” Tomas says calmly, stroking my back.
Nikolai lets off a couple more rounds and they hit their target. We watch as Brooks gets hit and slumps to the ground. Blood seeps through his black suit, pooling around him in the desert sand.
No!
“Come out, come out, wherever you are, Zoe,” Nikolai taunts.
“You are not going anywhere,” Tomas whispers, holding onto me tightly.
“I must. He won’t stop until you are both dead.”
“No, we lost you once; we will not lose you again,” Mateo says.
But this is my fate, there is no happily ever after for me. Nikolai always said I was his and now I truly believe it. He is never ever going to let me go, especially not to Tomas and Mateo. The bloodthirsty look in his eyes tells me this.
“I love you both so much, but I have to do this.”
Mateo tries to stop me. “No, you don’t.”
I push them away from me as I move from my hiding spot.
Nikolai notices me and trains his gun directly at me.
“That’s a good girl. Your time is up, your fate has been decided, Sapphire. You must come home now.” Nikolai sounds calm as he speaks.
I take a step closer to my fate until I notice Mateo and Tomas stand up as well. What are they doing? I notice an evil smirk cross Nikolai’s face.
“So, these are the two you love? You’ve lost. I’m the one with the gun and believe me, I will happily put bullets through both of you.”
