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“NATALIE!”Nick’s roar boomed in my ears.“NATALIE, DON’T YOU DARE FUCKING TOUCH HER!”
She jerked her gaze to the phone in my hand. “Is that him?” Her breaths stilled as agony carved across her face.“Is that my Nicky?”
She didn’t need to cut me with that damn knife. Her words did it for her. I swallowed the agony, forcing myself to play her game. I nodded and lifted my phone. “Yes. Yes, it is. He wants to talk to you.”
She licked her lips, the knife still shining in her hand. “Put him on speaker.”
I tried to see the button, praying I hit the right one, my finger trembling violently. But the moment I did, Nick’s voice filled the air.
“Natalie,”he snarled. “You fucking hurt her and you’redeadto me.”
She winced, her breath catching.
“You hear me?” he barked, his voice filling the phone, smothering the roar of the Mustang’s engine.
“I’m dead to you now anyway,” she murmured, lifting her gaze to mine, her face brightening. “You never cared this much about me.”
“You fucking cheated on me.” His deep voice was etched with agony. “You fucked other guys behind my back and you didn’t give a shit when I found out.”
She shook her head, the knife trembling in her hand as her face grew brighter and brighter.
For a second, it didn’t click. But Nick kept talking. “You’re the one who ruined what we had, Natalie, no one else.”
“I did it because you stopped wanting me.” She took another step closer, desperation making her clench the knife in her hand tighter and direct that unpitying violence at me. “Now I see you won’t want me ever again.”
I waited for him to answer.
Waited for anything as the others from the party crowded around.
But as my pulse grew louder, I caught the sound of tires skidding. The Mustang’s engine roared as the car kicked up dirt and hit the shoulder with a thud. Doors were thrown open as my brothers charged. Gio’s eyes widened as they came for him.
“Banks!” someone screamed.“Fucking bastards!”
In a blinding blur, the fight broke out, but it was eight against three. I jerked my gaze to Natalie as she let out a feral scream and lunged toward me, the blade slashing in the air.
“Ryth!”Nick roared, throwing out a fist, driving it into some asshole’s face.
Headlights lit up the fray. Fists and blood. Tobias was a fucking animal, charging forward to take down the biggest of them there, unleashing his blows with sickening savagery.
Still the sound of cars grew louder behind us. There were more coming, more against my brothers. Fear chilled me to the core.
I leapt backwards as Natalie slashed the knife through the air, coming for me. “Fuckingslut!”she howled as my brothers fought all around me.
Their yells drove me forward. I dodged the slash, stepping to the side, then lunged, driving my pathetically small fist into her stomach. It barely made an impact, but it didn’t matter, I was already swinging with my other fist, only this time, I drove it into the side of her face.
The blow hit hard, crunching my knuckles.
She stumbled sideways.
Nick divided his focus, desperate to get to me, but there were two of them on him, two who drove their fists into his face and his stomach. He left out a grunt and swung his savage glare back to his attackers.
“Nasty fucking cunt,” Natalie punched out the words at me, her fingers cradling her bleeding nose. “I’m going to hurt you for that.”
“The fuck you are,” I snarled, and stood my ground, my brothers fighting at my back.
Thecrack!of a gunshot came a second after cars skidded to a stop behind us. But I didn’t dare take my eyes off her, not for a second.
“Enough!”Lazarus barked, striding forward.
