Page 95 of Bratva Jewels Box Set
“Thank you.”
Then we hear banging and shouting.
“Fuck, I have to go,” Zoe says into the phone.
There is a rustling, and the sound of the room is muffled.
We hear a man screaming at her.
Shit, no.
Zoe is screaming, crying, then the line goes silent.
Fuck!
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“Open up the fucking door, Sapphire!” Nikolai screams through the wood.
I quickly hang up Reece’s phone and place it in his suit pants. He is still passed out on the bed.
I open the door and am almost bowled over by Nikolai and his crew. I can see the look in his eyes, and it stops me in my tracks.
He looks at where Reece is snoring soundly and back to me. “We have to go.” He grabs my arms.
“No, I’m not going anywhere.” I try to dig my heels in.
Then I feel it, the aching pain of being punched in the gut, and I let out a blood-curdling scream and nearly fold over on myself.
“You don’t have a fucking choice,” Nikolai spits in my face as he nearly breaks my arm pulling me out of the room.
“What’s going on?” I’m worried that they know about my phone call. “Where’s Gracie?”
They ignore me. I kick and thrash in Nikolai’s grip until Dmitri takes the butt of his shotgun, hits me in the head, and everything goes black.
Fuck, my head hurts. It feels like it’s going to explode at any moment. I groggily open my eyes and try to look around the dark space. Where the hell am I?
“You’re awake.”
Gracie’s voice filters through the darkness.
I try to sit up, but my head is spinning.
“Don’t move,” she tells me.
“What happened?”
“The police raided the palace,” Jet answers.
My body stiffens. “And where are we? Have we been saved?”
The girls all look at me.
I force myself to look around, and my stomach sinks. We’re in a van again. We haven’t been saved. Mateo and Tomas have lost me. I start crying, sobbing, heart-rending sobs. We’ve lost our only chance.
Gracie pulls me against her as she tries to calm me down, but I lose it, all the hope that I had that we could escape has gone. I’m going to die in this place, and they are never going to find my body. They are going to keep looking for me, but I will already be dead.
