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Jim wore a simple jean shirt, and he tucked his gun into it and jumped out of the van before I did.
I walked towards the warehouse while holding my breath, knowing that our contact in there with the sheikh would make it easy for me to walk in.
Once I walked into the dark warehouse, I noticed the men hanging around, and they all stared at me as I approached the sheikh, standing with his back to me.
They probably didn’t recognize me as they were men I hadn’t seen before, but I knew once the sheikh turned around, all hell would let loose.
I just walked into the lion’s den, and I was hoping to get out alive, with the love of my life.
The sheikh slowly turned to me once I stopped walking, his brows furrowed together, and a hard glare in his eyes.
“We meet again, Jack Muller,” he said, then burst into a wide grin. “I knew you would come to me, and you did.”
The sheikh raised his hands in the air, and once our CIA inside man walked in again, the sheikh’s man fired a gun at him.
The booming sound that reverberated in the air mingled with the sheikh’s loud cackle, and my entire body went numb.
Would I get Nina out of here alive?
Chapter Nineteen
Nina
“Givemethewomanand you can have me. I’m the one you really want,” I heard Jack’s voice echo through the walls of the other room, and I began struggling against the binds on my hands again.
He came for me.Jack came for me, and relief flooded every cell in my body as I waited to hear what would happen next. The only thing I remembered was getting in the cab.
I didn’t know where I was, but the atmosphere around me smelled of mandarin, a familiar scent.Just like the one in the sheikh’s mansion.
The gag in my mouth made it impossible for me to scream, and the binds holding my wrists behind me bit into my skin. I kept trying to free myself, to no avail. My stomach started to churn again, and when I heard the boom of a fired bullet, I feared I would choke on my own vomit.
Oh God no!
Tears streamed down my cheeks as I imagined Jack being shot on the ground.What if the sheikh shot at him?
A man stalked into the room and came at me. As he tried to get the binds off my hands, I kept screaming.
“Shut it,” he snarled at me, then struck my right cheek hard. My head rolled to one side, and I felt tears sting my eyelids again. The man dragged me out of the room I was in to another room, and I saw Jack standing in front of the sheikh, his hands up in the air, and his gun on the floor in front of him.
“I really liked you, Muller,” Sheikh Zayed said, and I caught the gleam of madness in his eyes as the man dragging me pushed me towards him.
I fell to the ground and scraped my knees on the hard floor. Another whimper left me. I raised my head to look at Jack, and the look of terror in his eyes made me sob harder.
I didn’t know what Jack had in mind, but I didn’t want him getting hurt because of me or the sheikh. I could see the tension in his muscles as he looked at me. I could also tell he was trying to tell me something with his intense gaze.
Jack’s lips remained pursed as he stared at me. “Let her go and I’ll do whatever you want,” Jack said without taking his eyes off me. “She is innocent in all of this.”
“You thought it would be hard for me to find her, right?” the sheikh continued. “You were sloppy and foolish. You don’t just waltz into the lion’s den and waltz out without getting bitten. If you want your wife to live, then you must do as I ask.”
“I’ll do anything,” Jack said in the next moment. I looked at him again and shook my head as I sobbed harder. I couldn’t let Jack do anything stupid because of me. “I’ll do anything you want, Sheikh. Just let her go,” Jack said through gritted teeth.
“Good,” the sheikh said again, then he motioned for a man to loosen the gag in my mouth. I heaved out a deep breath once I was free, and the man hurled me to my feet, then pushed me towards Jack.
I collapsed into his arms once I got close to him, and he hugged me tight, rubbed his hands down my back, and kissed the side of my neck. “I’m so sorry, Nina,” he said as his lips stayed muffled against my neck. “I’m so sorry I ghosted you.”
I pulled away from him, and he tucked me to his side, then looked at the sheikh again. “I want you to let her go. You and I have unfinished business, and she has nothing to do with it.”
The sheikh was quiet for a long time before he took the first step towards Jack and hardened his jaw. “You come to my home,” he began. “Lie to me and my wife, and then you try to kill me. You expect me to let you live?”
