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“Dad, I need help.” Tears crackled in my voice, and I gave a jolt when I heard distant shouting. I wasn’t sure if Axel was still in the living room, or if he’d left through the door of the suite and ran into the hallway. The alarm continued to blare.
“What’s happening?” he blurted, his gentle voice now authoritative.
“I—I don’t know.” I said everything as fast as I could. “Men are in the house…guards are dead…alarm is going off.”
“I’m sending my men now. Hold tight.”
“Wait, don’t go.”
“I’ll call you right back.”Click.
I sat on the rug on the floor, the gun held in my hand, leaning against the side of the bed as I continued to hyperventilate. It was Axel against who knew how many men, and I was there alone, unable to help.
The phone rang.
My finger was so sweaty, it slid across the screen in my desperation to answer it. “Dad?”
“I deployed my guys.” I heard the sound of walking. Doors slamming. “I’m on my way.”
“You’re coming?”
“Of course, sweetheart.” He pulled the phone away and spoke to the driver. “Get around them. Come on.” He came back to the phone. “Where are you in the house?”
“In the bedroom. Axel closed a wall, said it’s bulletproof.”
“Good. Do you have a weapon?”
“A pistol.”
“Do you see anything bigger?”
“I—I don’t know. This is what he handed me.”
“Sweetheart, you need to be quiet and just wait.”
“Axel is out there by himself…”
My father didn’t have anything to say to that.
“He should have hidden in here with me.”
“If he did that, he would be leading them right to you. If he’s what they want, they’ll take him and leave you be.”
Tears rolled down my cheeks.
“It’s exactly what I would have wanted him to do.”
I sat there and breathed into the phone, alternating between sobs and quiet cries, and then painful silence.
My dad stayed on the phone with me. “You’re going to be alright, sweetheart.”
“I’m not worried about me. I’m worried about him.”
Chapter 19
Axel
I stopped by my study and popped my earbuds into my ear. I called Aldo, and he answered right away.
