“Everybody stop shooting and drop your guns or I’ll put a bullet in his head.”
I was right. They all stopped. My men surrounded them and forced them to their knees. I slammed the butt of my gun into the guy I had at gunpoint and ripped off his mask. I didn’t recognize him either, though there was something vaguely familiar about his face.
“Where is Serenity?” I yelled.
“Here,” I heard a man call out, approaching the yacht in a speedboat with his gun pressed to my wife’s head. Valery was with them too, her hands raised.
“Serenity!” I screamed, seeing my wife in danger. My heart dropped straight to my gut.
A wave of terror crashed through me. My men aimed at the guy, but he looked completely unfazed. He brought the women up onto the yacht, never lowering his gun from Serenity. Her face was streaked with tears, and I swore to God I was going to kill this motherfucker.
“All of you, lower your guns or I’ll put a bullet in her head.”
My heart crashed against my ribs and reluctantly, I lowered my gun.
“Drop your guns,” I ordered my guys, because there was no way I’d risk my wife’s life. “Don’t hurt her. You can kill me if you want, but don’t touch my wife.”
“Oh yeah? How sweet! You really care about her? Good, because you’re the one we came to kill,” he sneered.
“Then do it. Kill me and let my wife and her assistant go. You want me, so leave them out of this.”
“No!” Serenity cried out. “Don’t hurt him, please, no.” She started to sob and I swear I wanted to break the neck of every guy there for making her cry.
“Serenity, Serenity, baby. Listen to me. You’re strong, okay? You have to stay alive. You have to live. Don’t do anything that puts you in danger. You know I’d give my life for you. No matter what, I’d die for you without hesitation. I’ll get you out of this, baby. I promised I’d keep you safe, so trust me. I’ll do everything in my power to keep you safe, baby,” I tried to reassure her.
“I don’t want to live without you. I’m pregnant, baby. We’re having a child. You can’t die without meeting your baby, Konflict. You can’t leave us.”
My heart twisted with pain seeing her so hurt, until the guy I’d held at gunpoint spoke up.
“That’s enough! Viper, why do you have your gun pointed at my niece?”
Serenity’s uncle?
Hearing those words unsettled me. None of it made sense. Why would her own uncle want to kidnap her and come after me?
“Oh, well, no, I didn’twantto aim at her, but I was a little confused,” said this so-called Viper, whose neck I promised myself I’d snap later. “We were all coming here to take out Korven for killing the Veylor’s and keeping Serenity prisoner forover a year but as you can see, these two clearly don’t hate each other. If anything, it’s the opposite.”
I didn’t understand a damn thing that was happening. Neither did Serenity’s uncle, his men, or mine. Krash looked tense, his nerves shot, his eyes locked on someone. When I followed his gaze, I realized what he’d tried to tell me on the phone before the attack.
“Yes, I can see she wasn’t kidnapped or held prisoner, even though the last message we got said she was about to be killed. That’s why we rushed over to get her out and eliminate the threat. So what’s going on here?” her uncle asked again.
“We should ask our not-so-anonymous informant. What’s happening here, Valery?” Viper asked, pointing his gun at her.
And just like that, the shock hit. Valery?
“Yeah, I’d like to know too, Valery,” Krash said, voice cold. “And don’t bullshit us, because I’m ready to put a bullet in your head.”
“Valery, what’s going on?” Serenity asked, lost, just like everyone else. Meanwhile, I was putting together all the missing pieces of the puzzle.
Valery… She was behind all of this. And none of us saw it coming.
Chapter Twenty-five
SERENITY VEYLOR-KORVEN
A few hours earlier..
Ihad never slept as well as I had these past five days in my life. Falling asleep every night on my husband’s chest, his dick still inside me, both of us thoroughly fucked and spent. Those goodnight fucks always sent me straight into a deep sleep. It had taken less than a week for me to get used to it, so used to it that I couldn’t imagine sleeping any other way now.
