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He aimed for Matteo.
I didn’t think. I just pulled my gun as I lowered the window, aimed, and fired.
I was as shocked as Matteo looked when the man fell to the ground.
Matteo glanced around, then saw me. “You?” he asked.
I nodded, then focused on helping Ford get my brother into the car.
“Worth?” Beck asked. “Is it really you?”
“Yes. Come here.” I pulled Beck into my arms. He held me so tight it hurt, but I didn’t care if he cracked all my ribs. He was there. He was alive. He was safe, and he was coming home with me. “I’m so sorry. Why didn’t you call me?”
“I’m sorry, too,” Beck said. “When I saw your friends, I couldn’t believe it. I…I thought those men were going to kill me.”
“I know. You’re safe now. You’re okay.”
Miles exited the building and headed to our vehicle. He slipped into the middle seat with me and Beck.
Matteo waited by the exit. “Carter is taking care of the last few people in there. He’ll be out in a second.”
Carter wasn’t alone when he exited the building. The man following him had a gun to Carter’s head and an arm around his neck. The fucker grinned maniacally at Matteo.
“I see you’re still alive. I’ve got your man. Want to trade?”
“Let him go you son of a bitch. If you want to fight, then fight me man-to-man.”
“I don’t want to fight. I want to kill you slowly, painfully, and then I want to make sure everyone believes you’re a traitor, that you were with us all along.”
“That’s not going to happen,” Carter snarled.
I couldn’t believe how calm he looked. Beck was shaking in my arms.
I wanted to believe everything would be all right. I had no doubt Matteo could put a bullet between the man’s eyes. But he could he do it before the man shot Carter?
“What do we do?” I asked.
“Matteo will handle it,” Miles said. “Keep your heads down.”
I pulled Beck to me and told him not to watch. I turned away myself, terrified I was about to see one of my friends die.
Somehow though, I couldn’t keep myself from watching. When I looked again, I saw Carter make a hand signal and Matteo return it. They were subtle, but I knew them well enough to know how easily they communicated without saying a word.
A few seconds later, Carter slammed back into his captor, throwing his arms out to knock the man’s gun arm to the side. Carter stepped sideways, and Matteo fired.
Carter’s captor collapsed with a hole his forehead.
Bile rose in my throat at the sight, but I pushed it back down. My friends were safe. Carter ran to Matteo who picked him up. He wrapped his legs around him, and they kissed long and hard before running to the car and jumping in. Matteo started the engine and yanked it into gear.
“We’re just driving away?” Beck asked. “What about the police?”
Carter nodded. “Our men will take care of it.”
Miles agreed. “The cleanup crew is already on the way.”
“But those men kidnapped me, and now you’ve killed them. What’s going to happen?”
“To us? Absolutely nothing,” Miles said. “We’re taking you back to Worth’s house, and you’ll get checked out by my doctor. Then we’ll go home and pretend nothing happened.”
