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I slowly rise above the table, and my eyes widen the second I spot the bodies littered across the hallway. All of them, dead.
“Quick,” I bark at Nathan as we drag the table away.
But as I stop and stare, my whole body feels as though it’s turned into dust.
Lana stands in the hallway, a severed head in her hand. She chucks it through the hallway, and when it’s done rolling, the ghostly eyes make me do a double take.
It’s the fucker who was leading the charge.
And all of them are dead.
She’s breathing wildly, clutching a knife in one hand, a gun in the other, and has blood spatters all over her clothes. I swallow in awe at the sheer destruction in front of me. None of us knows what to even say.
She did all of this … on her own.
I thought she’d take Rory and flee, that she’d let us fight it out until our last dying breaths.
“You came back,” I murmur.
“You were overrun,” she replies. “I wasn’t going to let them kill you.”
And here I was, thinking there was still a slight chance she hated us enough to leave us here to die.
Not a chance in hell.
A smug grin spreads on my lips. “No… that privilege belongs to you.”
She smiles back and steps into a side room. “You can come out now, Ro. It’s safe. But don’t open your eyes.”
Little Rory steps out, shivering and all.
Nathan’s face visibly relaxes when he sees her alive and well, and he immediately runs toward her to pick her up and wrap his arms around her. “I’m here, Ro. You’re safe now.”
“Are you coming or what?” Lana asks us.
Blaine winks at me, and we both run through the hallway, hopping over the bodies as we make our way to the exit near the curtains. Everywhere I look, blood cakes the walls and floors, Bonesmen bodies covering the area. It’s like a giant massacre took place. Only one girl responsible for nearly half the dead.
And when I look at her, confidently striding through the building, I realize I have fallen madly in love with this cutthroat god of a woman.
“Where the fuck do you think you’re going?”
We all look over our shoulders, but Lana pushes us farther out the door. “Go!”
BANG!
She shoots her shot, but after fighting so long, she misses the vital points, and the bullet hits the Bones Brotherhood guy in the shoulder instead.
“You… What the fuck is a Rivera doing here?” the guy yells before she seals the door shut.
“RUN!” she yells, and we all bolt through the street, Nathan with Rory in his arms while Blaine offers backup. Adrenaline shoots through my veins, sweat rolling down my back, my lungs dragging in the oxygen as I run as fast as I can.
The guy slams open the door behind us, but we’ve already jumped into the vehicle, Blaine beside me on the passenger’s seat, and I start the engine and race off. He runs out onto the street, and with ragged breaths, both Lana and Nathan look out the rear window from the back seat to see him swear and raise his fist.
But we’ve made it out alive, and he’s not fast enough to catch up.
“Can I open my eyes yet?” Rory asks.
Nathan slowly pulls away his shielding arms and says, “Yes. You’re safe now.”
