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Jumps in front of me. Her back slams into my chest as her head jerks forward.
She slumps to the ground, but I catch her. Blood pours out from her shoulder. She took a fucking bullet for me.
Grigori Laskin’s submissive just saved my life.
Torin pushes meand herbehind my car and returns fire.
A freight train out of nowhere dressed in black, rushes past me. My brother Lachlan roars as he empties his clip and next, two of Maksim’s guys fall flat on their faces, each with bullet holes in the head.
Lachlan and Torin keep shooting until another guy goes down and the rest scramble like roaches back into the building. That piece of shite, Maksim, sent five fucking guys to kill me?
Now I’ve got a dead woman at my feet.
“Holy fuck, who is that?” Lachlan asks me, as I tear open her jacket to find blood pumping from a hole in her shoulder.
“She warned me.” I press on her wound, my hands full of blood. “She took this bullet for me.”
“We have to get the fuck out of here, mates,” Torin says, looking around for cops because we’re on a public sidewalk.
“My guys are on the other side of town. We got a call from Balor. This was a setup.” Lachlan keeps his gun trained on the metal door to Grigori’s basement. Maksim is probably ordering more recruits to suit up for a slaughter. “Leave the bitch and let’s go.”
“She took a bullet for me. I’m not leaving her to die.”
“Riordan, we don’t have time for you to play the hero to a whore.”
“I’m not. She’s not. And fuck you, Lachlan. Just help me get her in the car.”
“No time to argue with you. We’ll dump her at the hospital.”
“You don’t call the shots here,” I remind him, as I press my mouth to her lips to feel if she’s even breathing, but my ears are fucking ringing from the gunshots. “Don’t die on me,” I whisper.
She doesn’t say anything. Doesn’t open her eyes. And I’m fucking terrified for a submissive I shouldn’t care about.
“I told you to let me go to this meeting with you.” Lachlan shakes his head and holsters his Smith and Wesson.
“A phone call warning me would have been nice,” I grumble as Lach helps me get her into my Audi.
“We had no signal down there, boss.” Torin jumps into the driver’s seat. “Which hospital?”
“No hospital. Not this time. My penthouse,” I answer, keeping pressure on the wound gushing blood. “Call the butcher. Get him over there.”
Priscilla- 17 Years Ago
A car pulls up and two men get out. Their swagger, dark hair, fair skin, and long overcoats leave no mistake about who they are. The O’Rourke brothers rule the streets of Astoria for their father.
“You brought Kieran?” Riordan asks the really tall one. “Lachlan!”
“I’m not invited?” Kieran, the oldest brother, quips.
“You told me to bring heat.” Lachlan saunters toward us.
“I meant guns,Lachlan,” Riordan lashes back.
“What happened?” Kieran asks, and then swears, seeing my busted-up face. “I assume you found her like this.”
“Fuck, do you think I’d do this to a woman? This isNolan’sdaughter.” Riordan uses Father’s name like he’s famous, but I’ve never met Kieran, so I don’t expect him to know me by sight.
“Fuck me.” Kieran scrubs a hand down the back of his neck.
