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After he picked up Ana, I followed him to the back room. The door began rattling harder and harder by the second, and all I could think of was the worst. When Landon deposited Ana on a bed, I crawled up with her and held her close. Landon handed me one of the guns.
“Landon,” I whisper-yelled. “What do you expect me to do with this?!”
“If something happens to me and they get through that door—”
“Don’t say stuff like that,” I said, brows drawn together. “Please, I can’t lose you.”
He placed his hands on my shoulders and stared me right in the eyes. “If something happens to me and they get through that door,” he said, pointing behind him, “you protect yourself and Ana by shooting them right in the fucking head. Do you understand me? You’re Poison.”
“Poison,” I whispered.
I might’ve been Poison, but I was also scared shitless.
When Landon left the room, my heart raced about a thousand miles a fucking minute. Ana still slept next to me, her head in the crook of my shoulder. I wrapped my right arm around her smaller body and rested my hand on her forehead, gently stroking it to calm myself down.
If anything happened, I would have to … to kill someone to protect her.
I couldn’t freak the hell out. I needed to stay calm. I needed to think straight.
From a distance, I heard the front door shake again. I held up my gun, aiming at the bedroom door, ready to fire if anyone came in to hurt us. My hand trembled uncontrollably, and my mouth was so dry.
Akio’s parents were after us. If they showed up at Landon’s house, they wouldn’t think twice about killing him dead. After everything that had happened within these past few days, I was terrified that they’d kill all of us.
