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“ZAYDEN,” I bellow. “Get down between the pews and don’t poke your head up until someone gets you.”
Just as I’ve finished, doors slam open around the church and footsteps pile in before bullets start flying.
Each time someone notices me, they still for a beat in disbelief.
I get it. Trust me, I fucking get it. But I don’t need their shock or sympathy right now. I just need my fucking girl and her brother taken care of.
“Evie,” I shout. “Someone get Evie.”
Heels click on the stone floor and when I look up, I find the queen of death herself walking toward me.
She glances at me, but her face shows nothing as she moves closer, a gun in each hand.
Someone ducks down behind the pews to her right, but she doesn’t miss it. Her arm lifts and she fires off two rounds before a body hits the ground.
She moves so calmly, so confidently, it’s awe-inspiring.
If she has any concern for the bullets flying around or the men who are fighting, then she doesn’t show it.
“Evie, sweetie,” she says, rolling Grant away with her foot, looking disgusted that she allowed her shoe to touch such a repulsive piece of shit. “It’s okay. We’re going to get you out of here.”
Placing her guns on the altar, she shrugs her jacket off. She drapes it around Evie’s shoulders once she’s sitting before pulling a knife from somewhere and releasing her wrists and gag.
The second she can speak, it’s my name passing her lips.
“Alex. You need to get Alex,” she begs, staring up at me. “Please. I need him. Look at him.”
“Evie,” Luciana says, holding her face in her hands. “They’ll get Alex, I promise you. But right now, I need to get you and Zay out, okay?”
Despite Luciana wanting her attention, Evie’s eyes are still locked on mine.
“Go, baby. She’ll look after you,” I force out, my throat raw as fuck from all the shouting.
But Evie still doesn’t look convinced. Well, until Luciana spots someone behind her and quickly lifts her gun and shoots the motherfucker behind Evie’s back
Evie screams, throwing her arms around Luciana for dear life.
“I’m coming for you, Vixen. I fucking promise.”
Thankfully, she agrees, and a few seconds later, I’m watching Luciana guide Evie down the aisle. The second they get to where Zayden is hiding, Evie drags him into her arms, holding him tighter than I’m sure she ever has before.
The sound of gunfire, grunts, groans, and bodies hitting the ground continue to sound out around me. I get a view of some of it from my vantage point, but from the noises echoing around me, I think this is a bigger fight than it looks.
Just before Luciana ushers both Evie and Zay out of the main doors, hopefully to safety, Evie looks back.
‘I love you,’ she mouths, making my heart shatter in my chest before she vanishes from my sight.
One more loud gunshot rings out in the main church before pounding footsteps close in on me.
My heart jumps into my throat that they might not belong to the men I want, but the second I glance to my left, my eyes land on a pair so familiar to mine that everything knotted up inside me begins to relax.
“D,” I breathe, my relief palpable.
“We got you, Bro,” he assures me before more people surround me.
Seb, Theo, Nico, Toby, Ant, and Dad are all there, ready to get me down.
“Steps,” I croak, jerking my head in the direction the men stacked them after they got me up here.
