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She might go down, but she wasn’t going to make it easy for them. And if she died today, she was going to take Sergio with her—that was the least she could do after everything she’d endured.
Rounding the corner to the hacienda, she came face to face with the angry mob. Sergio was right at the front.
“There she is,” he sneered, pointing towards her. “Get her.” He signaled to some of his guards.
The people behind Sergio were all cheering them on, cursing her out and calling her cursed—all Sergio’s rhetoric, no doubt.
Noelle’s lips twitched as she raised her guns, shooting before they could. She managed to hit two of them, but to her surprise, they weren’t firing back.
“Get her, what are you waiting for! But don’t kill her,” Sergio demanded of his men.
Noelle frowned.
If she wasn’t to die in this spectacle, then what the hell did Sergio have planned for her?
She took a step back as she reloaded her pistols before aiming again.
She was the only one shooting, the others only trying to avoid her bullets. Yet not at any point did they try to hit her.
Noelle tilted her head in confusion until it dawned on her.
Hecouldn’tkill her. There was still the threat of her brother hanging over his head. And that meant… He couldn’t kill her like this—in a direct, violent confrontation. How would he explain that to Cisco then? He could never paint it as an accident.
Smiling to herself, she continued to back away as she used up almost all of the ammunition she had left. She shot right and left, hitting some targets, others not so much.
But she no longer cared as a plan slowly formed in her mind. Sergio might not execute her publicly, but he would find a way to kill her—of that she was sure.
And to keep what little dignity she had left, she knew there was only one recourse.
The countdown began in her mind as she emptied her bullets into the incoming men. All until one was left.
With a wicked smile on her face, she raised a brow at Sergio as she brought the barrel of one gun to her temple.
“You won’t win,” she laughed. “You won’teverwin.”
Right as she was about to pull the trigger, though, a loud cry erupted in the crowd.
“Noooo!” Lucero screamed as she barged her way through the people, running toward her at full speed. “Don’t. DON’T!” she cried out as she flung herself forward.
It all happened in the blink of an eye.
One moment Noelle was about to pull the trigger, the next, a blinding light enveloped her and everyone around.
Her gun fell to the ground.
Her eyes wide, she could only stare at her friend for a moment before her eyes rolled into the back of her head.
twenty-four
“Noelle,”Lucero’s voice filtered through her foggy brain. Noelle squinted, struggling to open her eyes. Groaning, she turned to her side, bringing her knees to her chest.
“I’m not dead,” she whispered, tears clinging to her lashes.
“No. You’re not dead. And I’m not going to let you die either.”
Noelle turned sharply, pushing down against the pain that reverberated in her skull.
“What do you mean? It’s not your choice to make, Lulu. It was mine! I’d rather be dead than have Sergio humiliate and kill me slowly. Because he will. Don’t think for one moment he won’t. Now that he has the people on his side, he can do whatever he wants.”
