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“Take a look around you!” I shouted, furious with this bullshit. “Your parents tried to kill me. I think that makes us enemies.”
“No…” She shook her head. “You need to work together.”
“Oh, for God's sake.”
“Your boyfriend killed your uncle, darling,” her father spat. “He’s got to die.”
“Five, four, three…” I counted down.
“Your real enemy is RICCARDO!” Her voice rose to a desperate shriek.
I froze, as did her parents.
“What?” they said with shaky breaths, almost in unison.
“I heard him talking. He kept you busy doing his dirty work because you were the best of the best at what you did. He didn’t want you to retire and he knew you wanted to, for my sake. So, he promised Uncle Benjamin that he could have me if he would be my guardian—under the condition that I had to progress in schools and pretend to be okay with him as my guardian.”
Tears streamed down her face. “Don’t you see! You three are not each other’s enemies. Uncle Benjamin molested me for six years! Six years…while you were playing Bonnie and Clyde…when I needed you!”
A wounded cry came from her mother, as the revelation seemed to rock her core. Penelope continued to speak.
“So, no! I won’t choose! I need all of you! You must work together! It’s the only thing that matters, and at this moment, we must get out of here because I followed you here by following him!”
My eyes widened. “Fuck! You should’ve led with that.”
“Excuse me, you had a gun to your head!”
* * *
I ran to the computers and tapped in a self-destruct code. On the table, I hit a black button that opened a hole in the floor just as a grenade flew through the window.
“Let’s go now!”
Penelope helped her wounded mother as they both ran to the hole. I grabbed the back of her father's shirt, tossed him in, and jumped down behind him a microsecond before the bomb exploded.
* * *
“Keep going!”
We ran through the underground tunnel, which led across the wooded area to a secondary warehouse housed beneath the earth. I dragged her father the full half-mile while he groaned and wailed in pain.
Once there, I completed a retina scan, and the door opened.
“I don’t think I can take another step,” her mother said.
“Then you can stay outside.”
“Dominic.”
I glared at Penelope.
“Please, help me.”
My nostrils flared as I took a deep breath. I grabbed her mother, tossed her over my shoulder, and dropped her in a chair inside the room.
“Ouch, motherfucker!” The older woman gave me an angry glare.
“You’re welcome,” I said, turning back to Penelope, who was trying to help her father get into the room.
