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I pull her into a tight embrace, just holding on. “Hey, no matter what we do in life, family will always love us. I am sure they will take you back with open arms. But right now, we need to pull ourselves together and find a way out of this bathroom before those goons come in here looking for you. So… can you help me?”
She sniffles, pulling back, wiping under her eyes, and she nods. “Let’s do this.”
We take off, rushing around the bathroom, trying to find a way out, when I spot, high up above the stall on the furthest end, a small window leading outside.
“Nalani!” I call out to her, and she enters the stall with me. I point up to the window and smile. “Okay, we just have to try and push the window open. If I hoist you up, can you give it a good shove, then crawl through and help me up?”
“Yes, absolutely!” A bright smile lights her face as I place my hands out for her to stand in them for me to hoist her up. But she stops, turns to me with a genuine expression and exhales. “Thank you. From the bottom of my heart… thank you!”
“We haven’t made it out yet. Thank me when you’re back with your family. Okay, jump up,” I tell her, my anxiety beginning to hit me now that we’re starting the escape plan.
I hoist her up, and she pushes on the window using all her force. “Urgh, it’s jammed shut. I need something to unseal the window.”
I edge her down, then pull a pocket knife from my bag. Her eyes widen, but with a smirk, I shrug. “Can never be too careful.”
She giggles as I hoist her up again, and she gets to work, jimmying the window open. I keep my ears peeled for the guards. We’ve been in here a while, so they will be getting suspicious by now.
We need to move.
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.
