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Minutes went by as I screamed and fought as hard as I could. Yelling reached my ears, sounding fuzzy, like an out-of-body experience. Then the crash of the door getting knocked down jolted me out of the fog as I stopped screaming and fighting and looked up.
Santino had at least a dozen bite marks across his body, two on his neck, and a few on his fingers, He was bleeding from almost all of them, and they were already showing bruising. Tiny scratches were evident down his muscled arms, and somehow I’d managed to give him a black eye and bloody lip.
“What the hell is going on in here?” Andrei yelled.
Santino nodded his head to me in respect. “Good girl.” Then he stood and turned. “The pain needed to be set free, so I let her free it on me. She’ll sleep better now.”
He casually walked by Andrei like I hadn’t just used him as a human punching bag and left the room.
My door was on the floor.
Andrei was standing on it, arms crossed, eyes furious as he stared me down. “A warning next time so I don’t shoot him between the eyes for touching you?”
“It was his idea,” I said in a weirdly calm voice.
Andrei hung his head. “Of course it was. It’s a Sinacore tactic often used in order to gain the trust of some of the prostitutes we rescue who have been sold into the trafficking rings.”
“Say what?” I croaked.
“Another time.” He smiled sadly. “Ever think that maybe the heroes are the monsters, the monsters the actual heroes? This isn’t the world you think it is, Katya. We do bad to save those who don’t deserve the life they’ve been given.”
I gasped a bit in shock as he sighed and looked down at the door. “Damn, I have to go to Home Depot again, fucking hate Home Depot.”
A voice sounded down the hall. “Make Phoenix go with you like last time.”
It sounded like Nixon, and then the guy appeared in my doorway, looked from the door to me, then back to the door. “Was the door angering you?”
“No.” Andrei rolled his eyes. “And Phoenix and I sort of aren’t allowed back together after last time.”
Nixon’s eyebrows shot up his forehead. “What the hell did you two idiots do?”
“Something not legal, let’s just leave it at that, but in my defense, the bird scared the shit out of me. It was a reaction!”
Nixon frowned. “Did you pull your gun?”
“We both did.” Andrei looked down. “And if that bastard says he hit it first, he’s a liar!”
“You shot a bird. At Home Depot,” Nixon deadpanned. “You’re the weirdest straight married couple ever.”
“Very funny,” Andrei grumbled. “I’ll send Santino.”
“You’ll send me where?” Santino had put a shirt on and was at least done bleeding.
“Home Depot,” I piped up. “Can I go too?”
Andrei groaned.
“Please! I’ll wear sunglasses and a disguise, and I’ll have Santino with me. We’ll just go there and back.”
“You realize if you die, he dies, right?” Andrei said. “You’d risk his life.”
“Yes,” I said quickly. “Please, I can’t stay trapped here every day.”
“Let her go,” Nixon said. “No hits have been made, and all intel points to our enemies biding their time.”
“Goody.” Andrei sighed.
“Don’t say goody…” Santino made a face. “And you…” He jabbed a finger at me. “…stay next to me, or we’re leaving. You listen to every order. No arguments, are we clear?”
