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I twist my body hard and fast, making sure to keep the gun out of his reach and intending to slam my knee up into his unprotected ball sac and make a break for it.
He stops me before I can even turn, but like I just said, I will never give up. Never stop fighting him.
I drop my fist back like a hammer, letting my arm hinge at the elbow to try to bring down the butt of the gun on his head… but the fucker denies me that too, not even flinching as he forces my arm straight again, then pushes it out and back at an unnatural angle so I can’t move.
He yanks me back against his body.
“I told you,” he says grimly, his heated breath branding the side of my neck, “not happening.”
A furious, incoherent sound leaves me as Dante and Logan finally burst into the kitchen, one of them slapping the light switch on.
I flinch under the onslaught of bright light, and they both skid to a stop. Dante stares at us incredulously as Logan’s shuttered gaze moves rapidly around the room, as if he’s mentally cataloging the blood, the damage, the clothes strewn everywhere.
Dante is the first to find his voice.
“What the fuck?” he demands, crossing the kitchen in two long strides and reaching for my gun hand.
I twist away, despair washing through me as I meet Dante’s vibrant green eyes, staring out at me quizzically under his sleep-tousled chocolate brown hair.
He freezes, his brows drawing together in confusion.
How fucking dare he look concerned? I’m sure all three of them were in on the plan to use my sister, but he was the one I overheard talking to Maddoc about the details.
He was the one I started to trust.
He was the one I let myself open up to the most, develop fucking feelings that felt real for, the one I most thought I was going tomiss.
“Fuck you,” I hiss, narrowing my eyes at him as I fight off the hopelessness that threatens to drown me.
I lunge at him, and Maddoc wrenches me backward.
Dante shakes his head, pressing his lips together in a tight line, then reaches for the gun again.
I curse him out, struggling harder.
I have to. Chloe made it out of the house, she must have, but she’s all alone and this fucking gang war of theirs, the one we landed right in the middle of through no fault of our own, means that being alone in Halston right now isn’t safe for her.
Ihaveto get away.
“Do you want to tell me what the hell is going on here?” Dante asks grimly, dodging backward when my struggle against the force of nature known as Maddoc motherfucking Gray sends the two of us stumbling into him.
“Riley shot me,” Maddoc tells him flatly, wrenching me back against him yet a-fucking-gain.
“What? Why?” Dante asks, his eyes locking onto mine.
I pant for air, immobilized but channeling all my rage into the death glare I send back at him.
He pats the air in a calm-down gesture that pisses me off even more. His lips quirk up, proving he can still read me like a book, but then he looks past me, addressing Maddoc over my shoulder. “Why are you two fighting? And why are you both naked?”
Maddoc’s entire body goes still, his arms like a steel vise around me. I’ve got no doubt he’s staring Dante down, trying to prove he’s the top dog here and doesn’t have to answer to anyone no matter how close he and his brothers are.
Dante just raises an eyebrow, waiting him out.
“Why the fuck do you think?” Maddoc finally growls.
From behind me, Logan hisses, a sound that would have scared me if I wasn’t so furious at all of them.
Dante just snorts, shaking his head, then smirks knowingly at Maddoc.
