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“Why aren’t any of you fucking listening to me?” he screamed. “Get these men out of the house right now. Beat them, shoot them. Fucking kill them!”
Caleb grabbed him by the back of his collar and dragged him back inside the house.
“We should’ve had that mouth broken a long time ago,” said Caleb as he threw Luke on the ground. “I’ll admit it was a mistake to let you go free back in college.”
Luke spat at his shoes.
“You assholes wouldn’t have dared.”
Caleb glanced at me. “You believe this shithead?” he asked.
“It was a mistake, Cal,” I said in a grim tone. “He dared to kill me back then. We should’ve taught him a lesson on what it means to attack an Amhurst. Our negligence brought us here today. Let’s be honest. It’s all our fault.”
Luke’s mouth bled and he struggled to get back to his feet but he continued to glare at us like he still owned us. “You’ll never get her back,” he hissed in a venomous tone. “If she lives, she lives as one of us, someone who uses that smart brain of hers for the Beckett family. Otherwise, she dies. My father will never keep a threat alive.”
Caleb marched forward, grabbed him by the collar, and hit him in the face.
Luke chuckled despite the pain. “You’ll never find her.”
“Forget about him,” I said in a raised voice. “Let’s go find Milla and Noah.”
“Dad will never let you take her,” Luke managed to blurt through his bloodied mouth.
Caleb was about to hit him again but I pulled him away. “Let’s go,” I urged him. “We’re wasting time on him. We need to find Milla.”
Something in Luke’s crazy talk stirred a cold warning inside me.
Where did Bill disappear to? Was he with Milla right now, deciding on whether to let her live or die?
Now that we’re here, he’ll never let her leave this house alive, I suddenly realized.
“Come on, Cal,” I shouted, dragging my brother away from Luke. “We’ve got to find her now or—”
A muffled, faraway sound of a gunshot reached my ears, halting me in my steps.
Caleb froze, staring at me with wide eyes.
Before we could say a word, three more shots rang out from somewhere deep in the house.
Luke’s chuckles were pure poison in my ears. “You’ve lost her,” he said with a savage grin. He still sat on the floor, too injured by Caleb’s blows to get back to his feet.
“I’m going to fucking kill—” Caleb roared but before he could attack Luke, I pulled him away, forcing him into following me.
“We’ve got to find her,” I said desperately while he struggled against me. “You can beat the shit out of him another time but right now, we’ve got to get to Milla.”
“Were those gunshots we just heard?” Caleb asked in a subdued voice as we hurried down a corridor blindly.
“Sounded that way to me,” I replied.
We hurried down the hallway, hoping against hope those bullets didn’t have Milla and Noah’s names on them.
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Noah
My breaths escaped in short, irregular spurts. Men moved and shuffled around me, talking about crap that made no sense to me.
I lay in a heap on the cold, hard ground. The sound of their scraping soles along the rough cement floor grated against my aching, throbbing ears.
