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Forty-Three
Seb
Marcus is losing it, and when he slits Jasper’s throat, I fucking pray to god Rick gets here soon. Louise begins screaming beside me, and I try to calm her down all the damn while keeping an eye on the bastard that’s got a grip on my girl.
I finally get Louise to be quiet when Jamie’s voice shouts to get down, and I grab Louise, shoving her to the floor before spinning on the guy behind me as the lights go out.
I slap his arm to the side, and the shot he fires goes wide, and I just hope it didn’t hit Jamie. Unable to see anything, I let my senses take over. Movement to my right has me turning that way, and I step forward, but my body is jolted backwards as I’m hit in the arm.
I curse under my breath as red-hot pain rips through me, and gunfire rings out in the room around me. Silence descends as the gunfire stops before it is shattered by breaking glass, and I breath a small sigh of relief knowing that Rick is here.
Light bursts across the room, and I see Louise on the floor with her hands over her ears, and I drop down beside her. I grab her face, so she can see me in the dim light from the guys’ lights.
“Louise, it’s me, Seb. Let’s get you out of here.” I take her hand and keeping low to the ground I lead her out of the dining room, where I find Jay waiting just down the hall.
“Where’s Jamie?” he asks as he takes Louise’s hand.
“I don’t fucking know. I’m going back for her now,” I tell him as I spin and race back to the dining room.
My eyes scan the room as beams of light flash across it, and I spot her crawling across the floor and going in the opposite direction to the exit.
Ducking low, I reach out and grab her ankle, and she almost kicks me in the face as she fights to get away but stops as soon as she realises it’s me.
I tell her I’m fine when she sees I’m bleeding, and to be honest, I was too busy looking for her to worry about it. I see Dom and Marcus fighting, and I hurry to get her the fuck out of here.
I get her out of the room and send her off to meet Jay, even though it kills me to be separated from her and see the worry in her eyes, but I know she’ll be safe with Jay.
I meet up with Rick just as I get back in the room, and he tells me they lost Marcus.
“What the fuck do you mean you lost Marcus? Where the fuck did he go?”
“I don’t know. He was fighting with Dom, and then I heard a gunshot and turned around to see Dom on the floor.”
“Fuck! I was right the fuck here, so how did he get out of the room without going passed me, Rick?” He shakes his head just as the lights come back on, and I spin around, slamming my fist into the wall and dropping my head against it, breathing heavily. I hear Rick talking to someone through his earpiece, and my ears prick up as something in his voice catches my attention. Turning my head, still rested on the wall, to the side, I can see the carnage in the room.
“What do you mean she’s not with you?” I whip my head round, pinning my gaze on Rick. “Seb, Ja—”
I don’t need to hear his words because I already know that Jamie never made it outside to Jay, and I point past Rick to a door open on the other side of the room.
Rick looks over his shoulder to where I’m pointing, and then I grab him by his jacket, pulling him to me and getting in his face.
“If he’s hurt her, I’m going to fucking rain hell down on him and anyone involved, do you hear me? I’m going fucking murder the bastard.” I shove him away from me and head for the door.
Glass crunches under foot as I run across the room, and the sound echoes as Rick follows close on my heels. Rick steps up beside me as I pull the door further open, and a tap on my shoulder has me looking his way to see the gun he’s offering to me.
“You might need this,” he says with a nod, and I know he’s pissed at me for getting up in his face, but I also know he gets it.
“Thanks,” I tell him as I take it from him. “Where did you get all this from anyway?”
He shrugs. “I may have called in a favour at the station with Ray. I figured he owed us one, and as it happens, he was more than happy to oblige. Come on, let’s go get Jamie. If I know her, she’s probably giving Marcus hell.”
“You better hope you’re fucking right,” I say and step through the door into the passage beyond.
After five minutes, we exit into a library, but there’s no sign of Jamie or Marcus. Signalling to Rick to head right, I take the left, and we slowly walk round the edge of the room.
We meet up on the other side, next to another door. I grip the handle, turning it slowly before pulling it open.
I take a peek round the door frame, looking out into another hall and seeing it empty, I step out. Shouting comes from behind a door further down the hall, and I nod to Rick.
