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I keep the bobby pin tight in my grip as he opens the passenger door and helps me out.
Before we reach the front of the building, I dig my feet into the ground, forcing him to face me.
“You’re pathetic, you know that, right?” I spit out, full of venom.
“I’ve only done what I had to do. Same as you, right?”
“Trafficking women? Really, Alex? How the fuck is that the same?”
“Chad, did he deserve to die?”
I take a step forward, straightening the bobby pin discretely as Frankie showed me to do at the docks.
“He did, yes. He went for his gun. He was in my goddamn apartment under your orders. You killed your own friend, Alex. Not me. You put him there, because your spineless ass couldn’t do it.”
“I don’t have a fucking choice,” he shouts, throwing his arms up in the air.
“There is always a choice, Alex. You just picked the wrong side of this. Let me guess, you’re getting paid a good sum for this, too?”
His face drops, telling me everything I need to know.
“You better hope to god nothing happened to those girls, or my Frankie, Alex. Or, I’ll end you myself.”
With each step I take, his piercing stare intensifies.
Keeping him distracted with my onslaught of aggression, I start wiggling the metal in the cuffs, waiting to hit resistance.
“I want out, Zara. I need your help.”
I let out a laugh. “You have to be kidding me. You’ll be lucky to get out of this without a bullet through your skull.”
“I’m doing this for you! I don’t want to be doing this anymore, Zara!” His face reddens.
“Do the right thing, then. Let me speak to Frankie and let’s save the girls. That’s the only way you get out alive, Alex.”
He shakes his head. “I can’t do that.”
The lock clicks. In a swift movement, I shake them off and make a lunge for the gun in his holster.
48
FRANKIE
“Frankie!” Maddie's piercing shriek sends me scrambling back into the VIP area.
Tears stain her cheeks. “I can’t find Zara. She ran out to the bathroom a few minutes ago. She was so pale. I just went and checked. She isn’t there.”
With each step I take, my heart races faster, each beat reverberating through my entire body.
“Start looking!” I order the rest of them and storm out down the hall.
“ZARA!” I shout, barging open the doors along my path. Nothing.
“ZARA!” I repeat, heading out to the back. Maybe she needed some air. She’s been struggling the last couple of days with dizziness.
My gaze falls to the ground, and a jolt of agony pierces my chest as I spot her gun lying there.
Fuck.
