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“Holy fucking shit,” I whisper as the green eyes that haunt my dreams stare back at me through the screen.
“What? What is wrong?” Andrei asks me. I quickly shake my head.
“Nothing! I found the girl the boss will want, that’s all.” He grunts in response, and I let out a quiet sigh of relief.
You almost blew your cover, dumbass. Quit acting like a rookie.
There’s no doubt in my mind this girl is Blake. The same hair and eyes, and the age is right.
How the hell did she end up in a goddamned auction house?
I put in our bid and start high. I’m getting her out of this place tonight, blown cover or not.
The lights flicker twice before going down like this is the fucking theatre and then the girls are led on stage in thick metal cuffs. Blake is nearly as small as I remember her, which scares the hell out of me.
What has she been through in the last seven years?
I know it must be hard to see the tables when the lights onstage are so fucking bright, but I swear when her eyes land on me, they widen in shock. Her lips curling in the corners before she fixes her expression into a timid one. My brows furrow as she starts to whisper frantically to the girl next to her.
As I take in the second girl, my own eyes widen. She’s fuckingstunning.I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more naturally beautiful woman in my life. Scrolling back through the tablet, I see her name is Cove, and she’s twenty-two, which makes her ten years my junior. And she smells like my favorite dessert?
Good god, I need to meet her and get her the hell out of here.
They begin the auction with the highest bids, and we secure Blake quickly, but Vincenzo Vitali, the Capo of the Italian mob on the West Coast, manages to procure Cove. I’ll need to keep an eye on the slick bastard, so he doesn’t sneak out before the raid. They bring the girls down to us, and I see Blake shoot her friend a panicked look. When she looks back at me, I put my finger up to my lips as subtly as possible, and she gives me a minute nod.
The auction lasts another thirty minutes and then Andrei stalks off to handle payment. The second he’s gone, I turn and grab her shoulders. “Blake?” My voice is clogged with emotion I can’t afford to show here. Not yet.
She nods, tears in her eyes. “You really are Roman, aren’t you?” she whispers. Her voice is hoarse, so I give her my water to sip on and she smiles at me gratefully.
“How did you get here? Why the hell are you at anauction house, Blake?” I growl low in my throat, not able to subdue the anger fast enough to keep it under the surface.
She rolls her eyes at me, giving me a droll look, and I chuckle. She’s a little spitfire.
“It’s a long story. Is Rook here? Are the guys?” she asks, and my jaw drops.
Before I have a chance to ask how she knows my nephews, Andrei comes back and announces it’s time for us to leave. I hit the button concealed in my cufflink and count down from ten. As soon as I reach one, I grab Blake and pull her down to the ground, pushing the table forward to act as a shield as the room explodes in chaos.
Gunfire is everywhere, and more tactical agents than I knew we had flood the small house. “What the fuck?” I whisper as Blake whimpers. I shield her the best I can, but I can see her arm was grazed with a bullet, so I tear a piece of my jacket and tie it around her tiny arm. Without warning, she’s ripped away from me. It shocks me enough that my reflexes are too slow to grab her.
“Blake!” I shout.
A massive man has his arm wrapped around her neck with a gun to her head, and she whimpers. Tears rapidly falling down her face.
“Nobody fucking move, or I shoot the girl,” the man speaks with a heavy Italian accent, and I realize he’s Vitali’s right-hand man. Vitali must have wanted both girls and decided to just take Blake when we won the bid.
I put my hands up and stand slowly. “Alright, Marco. Your time’s up. Let the Omega go, and you’ll make it out of here alive.”
He’s shaking his head manically before I even finish speaking. “No!” he barks. He may be enormous, but he’s still a Beta, so his bark has no effect on any of us. “Vitali wants the girl, so he gets the girl. She comes with me, or she dies. Simple as that.”
There’s a commotion at the entrance to the room, and the shouting distracts Marco enough that I can dive forward and yank Blake to the ground with me. Several gunshots go off and Marco drops to the ground as Blake slumps in my arms. Looking down to check on her, I panic when I notice blood welling rapidly on her chest.
“Oh god, no,” I whisper. “I NEED A MEDIC!” I scream desperately.
Laying her down flat, I rip off my jacket and use it to apply pressure on the general area near her shoulder since there’s too much blood to see the wound itself. John Benson, a detective from back home in Lockwood, leads a team of paramedics into the room where they load her onto a stretcher and check her over. It’s several tense minutes later before the lead medic nods and says she’s stable enough to transport. That she’ll need urgent surgery to make sure the bullet doesn’t travel in her chest.
Turning to me, she gives me a sympathetic smile when she sees my shirt that’s now covered in Blake’s blood. “Is there any family we can call?” she asks gently.
I shake my head. “Honestly, I don’t know. But I’d like to ride with her until we find out if that’s okay.”
