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Faster!
Finally, the window cracks, and she pushes the frame open. She lets out a small shriek of happiness as I grin from ear to ear. “Okay, I’m gonna hoist you higher. You think you can crawl out?”
She nods. “Yeah, pretty sure I can.”
I lift her legs higher as she pulls herself up and into the window frame, hoisting herself out into the cool winter air. My excitement bubbles inside me as her feet pull through the window, and she is completely out of the club. I turn back, looking to see if the guards are coming, and there’s nothing, so I stand on the toilet to get myself a little higher as Nalani turns around, lying down on the ground, and leans in through the window, her arms hanging down to help me up.
“C’mon, I got you,” she states as she grabs my hands and starts lifting. At the same time, I use the toilet to try and climb out of the window.
My arms and head come out into the fresh air, and I use my hands to grip the ground outside to hoist me the rest of the way out when something grabs my legs.
“Hey!” a gruff voice yells, and I turn, looking back down into the bathroom to see a guard gripping my legs, trying to yank me back inside.
Fuck!
I let out a small scream, and Nalani grabs hold of my arms to pull me up, terror in her eyes. The second guard rushes in, grabbing my other leg as I kick and try to fight as best I can, but they yank on me with everything they have, causing me to slip from Nalani’s grip. My stomach hits the window frame on the way back in as they drag me back inside the bathroom.
“Run, Nalani. Run!” I scream as I’m pulled from her view, dragged into the main bathroom, and thrown to the cold, tile floor. My stomach is aching from the hit it took on the way in.
I glance up at the two guards towering over me, and I wonder what the fuck they’re doing when suddenly, Park walks in behind them.
Shit.
CHAPTER 6
KAIA
Everything trembles with anxiety as Park stares down at me, a switchblade flicking in and out with the motion of his wrist, his eye twitching as he signals to two of his men. “Go… find her!” he demands, and they rush out of the bathroom on a mission.
“So, little mouse, you thought you could try to take what’s mine?” Park grumbles the words, but they are acute and show hidden meaning.
Swallowing hard, I shake my head. “She’s not yours though, is she? You’re using her for your own agenda.”
A slow smirk crosses his face. “You came up with that all alone just by spending the last couple of hours dancing with my girl? Who are you, little mouse? I’d like to know who to send small pieces of you to as a warning not to come for me again.”
My eyes widen, and my palms begin to sweat. “No one… I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Park steps forward, shaking his head. “Bullshit! Don’t lie to me,” he growls, sweeping his hand out and backhanding me across the face. The force is so hard my head snaps to the side, and I fall to the cold tiles, my breath catching in my throat with the shock.
The asshole kneels beside me, his blade now at my throat. “Tell me who sent you, or I will slit your throat right here and now!” He grabs my hair, yanking my head back.
I yelp in pain as the cold, sharp tip of the blade feels so sharp against my neck. But I don’t break. I will never break. If I’m going to die here and now, at least Nalani will be far away and free from this shithead’s clutches. I close my eyes, my mind shifts to Hurricane, and I internally smile, thinking about our life together. Then, a single tear rolls down my cheek.
Park chuckles. “Fine, have it your way, little mouse,” he snaps.
The blade presses harder against my neck, the cold sharpness piercing my skin, and the warmth of blood begins rolling down my neck. My body shakes with the adrenaline overload, and I brace for the end when a scream rips through the bathroom. “Stooop!”
The blade pauses.
My eyes fling wide open as Nalani jumps back down through the window she climbed out of, tears streaming down her face. “Park, you don’t have to do this.”
He withdraws the blade from my neck, and I let out a heavy breath as he steps back from me. He makes his way over to Nalani with a fierceness I have never seen before in a man, and believe me when I say I’ve seen so much with Defiance. Park flicks the blade away, shoving it in his pocket. His hands reach up and grab her so quickly I barely see him move, then the asshole’s fingers latch tight around Nalani’s neck as he shoves her up against the wall between the bathroom stalls. Nalani’s eyes bug out of her head as she grips his hands. I look away for a second to watch Park’s guards exit the room.
My first instinct is to go to Nalani to help, but I spot my bag beside me and slowly reach into it because Park’s back is facing me. I pull out my cell, sending off the 9-1-1 to Malia.
Nalani’s eyes shift to me as she kicks, trying to fight back, but her face turns a shade of bright red.
Finally, I stand and move in behind Park.
