Page 74 of Second Chances

Olivia watched as the woman stepped out of her red high heels and started moving towards her.

“Oh, right.” Olivia shook her head. “This is a fair fight. With Nicholai here.”

Kimber barked something in Russian at the man, which had him moving back away from Olivia and standing on the other side of the room.

Turning back to Kimber, Olivia allowed her body to remember all of the moves she’d learned in the self-defense class she and Crystal had taken shortly after Brock had been arrested and her arm had healed.

She took the first blow to her chin and almost landed on her butt. The second blow was more of a slap and bounced off Olivia’s shoulder.

Kimber used her long nails to scratch Olivia’s arm, causing blood to squirt out and land directly on the woman’s face.

“I draw first blood,” Kimber said with a smile. “You are weak, just like Adrian.”

Olivia used the moment the woman was distracted while she spoke to twist and kick out, knocking her onto her ass. Then she kicked out with her foot and hit the woman’s chin, knocking her head backwards.

When Kimber recovered, Olivia smiled at the empty space where one of her perfectly white teeth used to be. Blood spurted from the gaping hole.

“You bitch.” Kimber wiped her mouth and jumped up to rush towards the taser.

“Am I too much for you to handle now?” Olivia teased, fear spiking as Kimber grew inches from getting the taser.

She relaxed when Kimber turned back around and started moving towards her instead.

“When this is all over, I am going to enjoy watching the fish eat your corpse. Then I’ll dangle your daughter over the edge of the boat as the sharks circle and slowly bite her to pieces,” Kimber said while blood flowed from the spot where her front tooth used to be.

“You will never touch my daughter,” Olivia said, sidestepping another blow, then using her elbow to knock Kimber onto her ass again. She knew better than to get too close to the woman. She didn’t want to be pulled down onto the ground.

Olivia’s best moves involved twisting away and kicking. Or so her self-defense coach had informed her. She allowed Kimber to stand up and square off once more.

“You are nothing!” Kimber screamed as she threw herself at Olivia.

Olivia fell backwards, bouncing off the wall while taking the scrapes and slaps Kimber used on her.

She was too close to fight back the way she knew. So instead, she did what she could. She kicked, pulled hair, and even bit her way free. She pushed Kimber to the ground and used her own weight to pin the woman down.

When Kimber yelled something in Russian, Olivia knew she was in trouble and glanced up to brace herself for Nicholai’s attack. Instead, she watched in horror as Todd yelled. “Leave her alone!” and threw himself, chair and all, at Nicholai.

Both men flew across the room and landed in a tangled heap on the floor. The chair that had been holding Todd down shattered into pieces.

Nicholai tried to get up, but now that Todd was free, he sat on the man and started throwing powerful blows at the man’s head.

Olivia’s hair was yanked back as Kimber jerked out from under her. She’d been so distracted watching and worrying about Todd that she’d forgotten she was sitting on Kimber.

For the next few moments, Olivia did everything she could, used every move she had in her arsenal, to overcome Kimber.

She’d finally gotten the woman under her again when the door to the room flew open.

“Get on the ground now!” multiple masked men in all black yelled into the room.

Olivia jerked her hands into the air and did as she was asked. Only to have Kimber throw one last sucker punch, slamming her head back against the wall until she saw stars.

“Olivia?” Todd’s face appeared directly in front of hers. His lip was bloody, and his eye was swollen. “Honey, look at me.”

“Todd? Did we win?” she asked, holding onto her head.

“Yeah, baby. We won.” He smiled at her.

“You’re bleeding.” She lifted her hand and touched his lip.