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“Defiance scum, I should have known!”
“You treat Nalani like trash. Using her to gather intel on the club. You have abused her and lowered her self-worth in the process.” A smirk appears on my face, and I can’t help it as I blurt out, “You have nothing but small dick syndrome, Park.”
He goes to lunge forward, and I shove Nalani out of the way. At the same time, my hand holding the blade thrusts, stabbing him in the gut.
But that doesn’t stop him.
Park pushes me back so fast I fall to the tiled floor as he laces his fingers around my neck, but I thrust the blade deeper into him as he sits on top of me.
“Help! Help!” Nalani screams out as Park continues to chokehold me on the floor.
It doesn’t seem to matter how much I stab him, the fucker won’t go down.
Then I hear it! The thunderous footsteps alert me to men rushing into the bathroom and the roar of gunfire blasts through the small room. Suddenly, Park’s hands around my throat loosen, and his weight on me become increasingly heavy.
“Kaia!” Hurricane bellows, sliding in beside me, yanking Park’s dead body off me.
Nalani runs for Mauka, and she crashes into her father’s arms.
Hurricane takes one look at the blood covering me, and a terrified expression appears on his face while his hands rush all over me. “Fuck, fuck, fuck! Where are you hurt?” he urges, lifting my dress up, not caring about everyone in the room as he checks my stomach. Once he has finished his detective work, he slumps his shoulders, realizing the blood is not coming from me.
I catch my breath and squeeze his bicep as he helps lift me. “Not my blood. I kept stabbing Park, and it all gushed out and fell me.”
Hurricane leans in, pressing his lips to me so forcefully it knocks the breath from me again. My hand caresses his face, and I pull back, looking into his eyes. “I’m okay… we’re okay,” I tell him, placing my hand on my stomach.
The concern on his face is immeasurable as he clings to me so fucking tight. “You disobedient, deceitful, fearless woman! You coulda gotten yourself and the baby killed. What would I do without ya? Did you even think about that when you left without tellin’ me!”
A slow smile crosses my face as I hold him tighter. “You would never have let me do this.”
“You’re fuckin’ right. You’re carryin’ my child, Kaia!”
“You’re pregnant?” Nalani’s eyes bug out of her head as she steps up to us, still in her father’s arms.
I weakly nod. “I am. And I am sorry I deceived you tonight, Nalani, by not telling you I am from Defiance. But we needed to get you away from Park. I thought the only way was to make you see how disgusting and reprehensible that man truly is.”
Nalani wipes the tears from her face. “I knew… deep down, I knew. I just couldn’t see a way out. I was so scared to leave. But there was something so freeing in how you made me feel like I could, so I finally took the opportunity. We were almost out too. But in a way, I think this might be better because with him gone, I don’t have to worry about that man coming to find me.”
Mauka dips his chin. “Thank you, Kaia and Hurricane. We couldn’t have done this without you. Jun and Cheng were in the nightclub, and we were able to take them out on our way to get to you girls. The Ministry will flounder without its top three leaders.”
“You’re welcome. But right now, I gotta get Kaia to the hospital and have her checked out,” Hurricane states.
I wave him off. “I’m fin?—”
“No arguin’, woman! You have a cut on your neck, you’re wet from God knows what, and when I came in, that motherfucker was chokin’ you. So you’re goin’, Kaia. I need to know you and our little peanut are safe.”
My stomach feels tight, and I hit it twice in the fight. Plus, we haven’t seen anyone since I confirmed our pregnancy, so it would be nice to get an all-clear. “Okay… let’s go.”
“We’ll all come. I want Nalani checked out too,” Mauka states.
She holds onto her father as Pono, Wipeout, and Chopsticks walk into the bathroom. “We’re all clear out there. Security footage has been wiped, and all the people paid off that are needed. Cleanup is on the way. We should be good to go,” Wipeout relays.
“All right. Let’s head to the hospital. Someone call Aunty and tell her to meet us there,” Hurricane states.
“Already on it,” Mauka replies, then places a kiss on Nalani’s head. “It’s good to have you back, Nani.”
“I’m so sorry, Dad. I should have never fallen in so deep. I knew better. But once he had his hooks in, it was too hard to get out, and I didn’t know how to. I was so stupid,” Nalani whimpers the words to her father.
Mauka holds her tight, shaking his head. “None of that matters now. Park is gone, and you’re back with your ohana. That is all that matters.”
