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He went still, choking for seconds, and then died.
I moved back into the hallway, seeing the rest of the men coming for me.
I had to get off this floor and lead them away from Scarlett.
They opened fire, and I ducked back into the office, the bullets marking the walls and destroying the paintings and the moldings. I poked my head out and fired back, knowing I had to get a lot of bullets in to defeat the carbon fiber armor they wore from head to toe. They weren’t regular henchmen that I’d encountered, who came in armed with just a gun and a bulletproof vest. These guys were practically SWAT.
Who the fuck wanted me dead?
Back and forth, bullets were exchanged. Some of them started to fall.
“More of them are coming from the bottom floor,” Aldo said.
“How many?”
“At least a dozen.”
“Goddammit.” I stepped out again and sprayed them with bullets, taking them down because they hadn’t expected me to lunge right toward them like that. After they all collapsed, I grabbed a fresh gun because I was out of ammo and headed to the stairs. I took them two at a time as I headed down, and when I reached the railing that stretched along the second floor, I put the strap of the gun around me, climbed over, and then swung myself forward and dropped down to the first floor. I landed behind the twelve guys, and I quickly scrambled to my feet to raise my gun.
They turned at the sound, but the stairs were precarious as they pivoted, so their response wasn’t as fast as it would normally be.
I fired the rifle and knocked half of them down, shells littering the floor around me. The destruction was enough of a distraction for me to run and head down the stairs to the ground level.
“Axel, there are even more by the entryway.”
“Fuck.”
I could head out the back and run, but if I did that, Scarlett would be here alone. They may not realize she was even there. They might chase me instead. But what if they didn’t?
“Axel, someone else is here.”
“Is it my guys?”
“No, someone else. They overrode the security system and closed the gates.”
“Who the fuck is it?”
“He just got out of the car. He’s tall. Wearing all black. No armor.”
Definitely the boss.
“He’s coming inside,” he said. “What are you going to do?”
The men from upstairs were running down to get me, and the boss was about to step inside and finish me off. My guys couldn’t get to me with the gate closed, at least not for a while. But all I cared about was Scarlett. “Fuck.”
“I don’t know what to do.”
“Aldo, I need you to do something for me.”
“Anything, sir.”
“I’m going to hand myself over. I need you to get Scarlett and bring her into the safe room. Ignore whatever happens to me.”
Aldo was silent.
“Can you do that for me?”
“I’ll call her and guide her down. Is that okay?”
