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His head flies back, but he still manages to put me down gently. “Fucking hell, baby!” he yells, holding his head.
“Not your fucking baby.” I hold my gun back up to him. “Start talking. Did you set me up?” I’m filled with rage, but somehow, I’m calm.
“What are you talking about?” he asks, rubbing the side of his face.
That’ll definitely leave a mark.
I smile to myself before another explosion booms. He looks over to where the sound came from, and I didn’t give him time to think. I squat, kicking my leg out to knock him down on his back. But he’s quick and only stumbles slightly. He grabs and pulls me in, giving me a chance to knee him in the balls.
“Fuck!” he screams as he bends over.
I turn to run. Someone is shooting, bombs are going off, and I need to find Dom. I need to make sure he isn’t hurt—or worse, dead.
Not long after, a pair of arms grab me. I swing my legs back, knocking him down. As I try to get away again, something snags the bottom of my dress, bringing me down. I’m attempting to army crawl now, but he climbs on top of me, flipping me onto my back.
“If you thought you could fuck me to distract me enough to kill me, baby, you thought wrong!” he says, pinning my hands down.
Kill him?Who was shooting if not his men?
“What are you talking about? You followed me and kissed me, you jackass!” I scream, writhing in his grip.
“Don’t act like you didn’t like it. You kissed me back,” he says, panting with that stupid smirk still on his face.
I push my hips into him, and as expected, he relaxes, and I’m able to push him off enough to knee him in the stomach.
Men. I scramble up and run down the hall toward an exit, looking for Dom.
As I’m running down the corridor, another explosion erupts, and someone’s firing gunshots at me.
Well,fuck.At least I know who the target is now.
Someone pulls my body down, and I turn. Nico pulls me down behind a pillar, and I elbow him in the nose.
“Get away from me!” I yell, trying to get away.
His head swings back. “Jesus, fuck! What’d you do that for? I just saved you!”
Man, he’s good. I’m almost convinced he’s trying to help me. He grabs my arm and pulls me in so we’re face-to-face.
“You’re making it really hard not to hurt you,” he says.
“Fuck off!” I spit in his face and run off.
Or at least I try to. I only make it a couple of steps before I look back to see him tailing me.
Before he could grab ahold of me, a crash whips through the air, and my body is suspended. Shattered debris and glass from the wall flies. I land hard with a thud, knocking the wind out of me. My vision blurs as the rubble settles on top of me.
“Wo zhao dào ta le.”We found her, I hear a deep, raspy voice say...in Mandarin?
Papa made sure I learned Mandarin. At the time, he said I needed to know how to speak the language to stay in touch with my roots. Now I know the real reason: in case I ever decide to take over the Triad.
I try to look around, but everything is spotty. My whole body aches. I can barely hold my head up. Nico is passed out about twenty feet from me, but he’s coming to. He’s starting to move again. Two men appear in masks, standing over me. One slaps me across the face. This motherfucker.
“Dang wo men ting shuo gong zhu hái huó zhe de shí hòu, wo men dou bù xiang xìn.”When we heard the princess could still be alive,we didn’t believe it, the man says, taking off his mask. “Dàn ni zài zhè li.”But here you are.
“What?”
This can’t be happening.
