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Beside the door, the guard who took Lex is caging her in, telling her, “This doesn’t have to hurt. You just—”
He stops his advance at my intrusion, asking, “What are you doing out here?”
I ignore him to give Lex a quick head-to-toe scan. She’s not kicking and screaming like I expected but she doesn’t look scared either. There’s a strange, checked-out expression on her face as she peers at the son of a bitch who was just predatorily backing her into a brick wall, his intention crystal fucking clear.
Shit. She could be in shock.
He better not have touched her already.
Red closing in on me, I rip the shoulder closest to me, throwing the guard on the ground with a follow-up haymaker to his temple.
With him laid out, I reach for Lex, asking, “Are you okay?”
Her hand fits into mine without further prompting, and she nods, so I pull her forward, both of us freezing when the door opens, the two guards spilling out from the other side of it.
Lex’s grip loosens as her body prepares for the same thing as mine—carnage. Technically, with Lex’s guard sitting up, it might end up being three against two, but I’m gonna try like hell to keep it to three against one. Lex can fight, when she chooses to, but I won’t be able to concentrate if one of these motherfuckers hurts her.
I’m barely restraining myself as it is.
Easing Lex behind me, I say, “Come on,” daring the guard sporting a fresh goose egg above his eyebrow to make the first move. He takes a step in my direction, but at the sound of a gun being cocked, I forget all about him and spin, giving my back to all three men to put Lex’s against the wall again. Absolutely zero hesitation in my decision, I block her body with mine, my breath caught in my lungs as I wait for the bullet.
Lex’s eyes widen—the first real reaction she’s given since she was ripped from my arms—and she blurts, “Lexi Andeno.” The sound is lispy and nothing like her usual voice.
Lexi Andeno, as inCyrusAndeno?
“Cyrus’s daughter?” someone behind me voices my thoughts.
Someone else asks, “What of her?”
Lex blinks long and slow, then spits a wad of saliva mixed with blood into her hand.
Did he fucking hit her? Is that why she wasn’t saying anything?
“I’mher. I’m Lexi Andeno.”
Cyrus’s daughter?
Cyrus’s.
Daughter.
That’s the “family shit” Promise was talking about. They are fucking family.
What the fuck was up with that moment in Lost and Found then? The one where Cyrus jerked off to me describing his…his…
No. No. It can’t be. Shecan’tbe.
“Miss Andeno.”
“Fuck!” another guard shouts.
“We didn’t know.”
Lex spreads her fingers, letting the liquid seep between them until all that’s left on her palm is a single-edge razor blade.
She had that in her mouth?
“Now you do.” The blade in hand, Lex steps away from me, her chin raised in complete defiance, and I turn in place to follow. The guard on the ground still has his gun out, but it’s lowered. “Let us go and I won’t tell Cyrus about any of this.”
