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“You, tied to my bed, so I can stuff you with my cock.” My brothers shift, and my father starts to move.
“That’s never happening.”
“But it did once.”
“Yeah, only once. You couldn’t get it up again.” I laugh bitterly and feel Leif shift next to me. He knows about Thant and me, but I know he hates hearing about other men and me. I love how jealous he gets. It’s a turn-on I never thought I’d like.
“Listen here, you little bitch, I’m going to tear you up this time. Then I’m going to slit your throat the right way. Thumper fucked that up, just like he did so much. Fucker killed himself with alcohol and smokes.”
That means he doesn’t know I killed him. I look over to Commander, and he nods. I then look at Browser, and he waves his hand to keep him going.
“How are you going to make me suffer when you and I both know I’m better than you?” I egg him on.
“Oh, I’ll make you sorry. I’m sending Crank to go find the little brat and have him take care of her completely this time. We don’t know where you sent her off to, but we know that your stupid little friends from the Black Unit have her.” He laughs, and I hold up my hand because I know what’s coming next will set off my team. “I enjoyed watching Mule take out that idiot Deere. It was so easy to make Julian Black look incompetent after that. I got my hands on you so easily. You just have to grease the right palms.”
“You killed Deere?” I give him the satisfaction that he surprised me, not letting him know I had already figured it out. Thant likes thinking he’s the smartest in the room. It’s why his unit is so predictable. If I was one step ahead of them in Chicago, if I hadn’t let my guard down… But that won’t happen this time.
“You can’t protect everyone. I now know who you really are. You have family. I can go after them until you crawl back to me. Your new sister-in-law is your boyfriend’s sister. I could take both of them out in that fucking shop they own. Or the club. I didn’t know you were into kink. What do you like, Angeline? Does he spank you?”
“You’ll never fucking know. I don’t like pinky size dicks.”
“Shut up, you fucking bitch. Just for that, I’m going after that old woman who arrived tonight. Why would your weak-ass mafia brother send her and not a team for you? Does he hate that you walked away from them?” he yells into the phone, and I know I’m getting to him. “That raises a good question though. How did you get in the military with a family like that? I’ve heard your father is a dog and fucks anything with two legs, even men.”
I hold up my hand to stop my brothers and Andrei’s men from jumping to defend their Pakhan. I’m able to muffle the phone as a couple of them growl.
I look at my father and mouth, “Love you,” before I say the words that will get him off them.
“I’m not a Bratva printsessa. I was only ever a disappointment to him, and he never really claimed me. Just like I never claimed him. My sperm donor was a man who just fucked my whore of a mother.” The hate-filled words hurt to say, but I have to get him focused on me and not my family. “My brothers,” I spit, “have little to do with me. Gray used me just to protect his precious wife.” I reach for Leif’s hand. “As for my fuck buddy, after he bitched out tonight, he’ll be taking a hike.”
Roger’s laugh is deep and dark, and it does cause a trickle of fear to explode across my body. “Really? Then why are they all there?”
The glass on one of the windows shatters in an explosion from the .50 caliber bullet that’s packed with explosives too. Everyone starts to drop. Browser grabs his laptop. Roger doesn’t know who he is because we always had our faces covered when we were out on assignments. He also doesn’t know the Black Unit is here. He must not have seen them.
Bullets land around the room. Some aimed for the counter where Browser and his laptop were. I’m thrown to the floor, and I hear guns returning fire. A grunt has me looking around. I feel the warmth of blood against my hand, and I roll and look into Leif’s eyes.
“No,” I scream and beg every deity when I see the damage to his chest. I drag his body behind the bar into the kitchen. Unable to think straight, I open drawers until I get to the dishtowels, then I pack his wound. “Call Ryan and an ambulance,” I yell as silence descends around us. The quiet is almost deafening, but I focus on the man I love.
“I got you,” I tell him as I look into his pain-filled eyes. “I need to hold it that tight, love.” I press the towels to his body. “Please don’t leave me,” I beg him just like I did hours ago when our SUV exploded.
Browser drops to his knees next to me and throws open a med kit. I keep pressure until he moves me aside with a quick clot.
“You’re hit too,” he tells me, and I look down to see a wound in my side. The bullet went through both of us.
“I don’t care. Save him,” I beg as my tears blind me.
“Love.” Leif’s voice is weak. “Don’t let your heart freeze again,” he says as his head falls to the side. I feel for a pulse, but it’s not there.
“No,” I scream and start pumping his chest, not caring about the blood on both of us. I do chest compressions, trying to keep his heart going until paramedics arrive. When they do, they hook him up, and I watch as they find a weak, thready pulse. One of them grabs me, and we are all in motion. I don’t see anyone else in my home but us and Browser.
“I go with them,” he demands, and the paramedics nod. I recognize them all, but one is the guy who helped at the hospital. The one who said he was in the Army before.
“You can’t let him die.” I latch on to the front of his shirt as a weakness takes over me and I fall into his arms. My legs aren’t working. The blood loss is taking over.
Fourteen
RIDLEY
I come to with bustling noises, beeping, and alarms sounding around me, and the smell of antiseptics. I wince, trying to keep my stomach contents in, but it doesn’t work. A basin is shoved in my face, and I turn to retch up the last meal I ate, the food we had at the food court in the mall. That thought brings Leif to mind, and I shove away and try to sit up. I’m pinned down as I blindly fight, trying to get away.
