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“Where are you aiming?” Nikko asks in a low voice.
“If I hit the propulsion system, it’ll be inoperable.”
“Perfect,” Aleks says beside me.
There’s not a shadow of a doubt in my mind I’ll hit it with the first shot.
With a single, well-placed shot, I destroy the propulsion system. The drone stops, spirals downward, and hits the ground in a littlepuffof broken pieces.
“Excellent,” Aleksandr says. Warmth spreads through my chest because I know I just did something huge.
“I want to shoot something else,” I say with a pout. “That was too easy.”
“Go ahead,” Aleks says, pulling his phone out of his pocket and checking a text. “But Polina says Ivy wants her mama, so be quick about it.”
Ping.
Ping.
Ping.
The drone’s smithereens.
“Cars have gone,” Nikko says. “Lev’s looking at footage.”
I sigh and put my gun away. I’m nowhere near satisfied but my girl wants me.
“That was fun.”
“Not so fun when you’re hitting moving targets trying to kill you, but let’s hope it doesn’t come to that,” Nikko replies.
Aleks’s eyes flash at him. “It better not fucking come to that.”
He holds his hands up. “Relax, brother.”
“Not on your fucking life. You vowed to keep her safe.”
“And I will.”
Humph. Maybe I don’t need a man to keep me safe.
“Now that I obviously know how to use this, I want a weapon of my own.” I side-eye Aleks. “Please,” I tack on, to be polite. “I don’t want to borrow other people’s things. It’s yucky, like using someone else’s lip gloss.”
“No jewelry or flowers for you, then?”
I shrug. “I didn’t say Ionlywanted weapons…”
We make it downstairs, and I put the gun away with a sigh.
“Soon, Harper. You’ll have another chance soon, I promise. Now go, be with Ivy. I have to head out.”
We meet Ivy in her bedroom. She shows Aleks and me her princess pajamas and toys and yawns widely.
“Stay in bed with her tonight,” Aleks says when we step back into our bedroom.
“Why?”
“Because I told you to,” he snaps.
