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I pulled my second gun from my shoulder holster and waited for him.
“Novak!” I roared, pulling him from the slight cover as his head swiveled back to my voice.
An ice storm rippled in his chilling eyes, and I stretched out my hand to him.
Realization dawned, and Ilias’s lips fluttered rapidly with violent orders. His eyes, while desperate, centered on my fist that signaled him to hold. His hands moved fluidly as he reloaded another magazine into his empty gun.
I looked out to bastards that had cornered my family into execution.
Gun cocked, left hand itching, and index finger burning, I flicked my fist down.
Once.
Twice.
I stretched my palm out and began raining hell. Katia clutched on to me, and I brought my hand back to her hair as the ear-splitting hammer of my gun released the massacre.
Ilias pushed bodies into the church, shielding them until his back retreated inside.
In the midst of assuring their safety, I had placed us both in grave danger.
I squeezed Katia closer to me, making us smaller to the whistles that soared past us. I acted out of pure instinct and rage.
Protect, protect, protect.
I pulled my gaze away from the curled body of white and red in search of Arlo.
Hold!His hand implored with tension and snapping veins.
Hold?
We were sitting prey!
Cazzo!
I’d lost control. I’d been bested in my own city. My own wedding. At the doors of the church!
I’d been handed on a platter with an apple in my mouth.
I had been outplayed.
Katia was consumed in shock, deep in its grip.
Thunder tore through the darkening skies. Soil vibrated beneath us, rumbling our bones with bitter chills. My head reared back, and I felt the first drop.
The cry from above.
The icy bite of my sins.
The demon I would set free.
I dropped my head and cupped her face as rain fell over us.
My thumb ran over her cupid bow lips. My hands smeared the raindrops away as it streaked her bloody face. Her lashes trapped the water in flutters, and her eyes drowned in mine. Theyscreamedfor help.
Her eyes gasped for air, suffocating me in her own dread.
Fear stricken.
