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In the background, I could hear the riot in full swing.
It was real. It was happening. All of this was happening.
“When the riots kicked off, there was chaos, and I saw my chance,” Druin said. “Thillak sent most of his men to defend the Prize Pool. Can you believe that? The idiocy of it makes me laugh! And so I ran to his office and took out Cayggod. He was so shocked to see me that he could barely get out of his chair before I clocked him over the head! After that, taking out Thillak was easy.”
I wasn’t sure my heart could take this. First the riot, knowing Lily was in danger. Then knowing this might just be the opportunity I needed to get her out of there. And now, learning Thillak was no longer in charge but Druin was.
Was the galaxy going mad or was it just me?
“Things look different now on this side of the desk,” Druin said, “and you and I have unfinished business to take care of…”
I slammed a fist on Frana’s desk. “Don’t you dare hurt her!” I snapped. “If you come anywhere near her—”
“You’ll what?” Druin said. “I’m sorry to break this to you, but you’re all the way out there and I’m all the way in here. She’s here too. I will take her the way I wanted to all those years ago. And I want you to know that while I do it, we’ll both be thinking of you.”
He let out a laugh that made his chins wobble. I felt sick to my stomach.
“That leaves just one loose end,” Druin said. “Frana? Frana, where are you, you useless asshole?”
“Right here,” Frana said from the other side of the desk.
“I’m in charge now,” Druin said. “And if you want to keep your place in the organization, I suggest you prove your allegiance.” Druin focused his beady black eyes on me. “And kill Ohara.”
He switched the monitor off from his end, taking the roaring rioters with him.
I was stunned, speechless, mind blank.
“You know I’ve always liked you, Ohara,” Frana said, reaching into the desk drawer.
Whatever he was going for, I didn’t think it was going to do me much good.
“But Thillak is family,” he said. “I hope you understand.”
He pulled the blaster pistol from his desk and opened fire. My brain might have been asleep but my instincts were very much awake.
I dived to the floor and saw the plasma zip through the air and burn a hole into the front wall. A shriek came from someone outside. The factory secretary, I thought. She was sitting about there when I walked in.
I couldn’t worry about her now.
I lashed out with my foot and smacked the desk, once, twice, three times, and each time, it slid back further until it almost struck the back wall.
Frana grunted as the desk pinned him in place.
I glanced under the desk and saw his pistol flapping around, opening fire randomly.
I rolled back and leaped across the desk. I needed to be fast — my body could only move so quick whereas his arm could snap up at a moment’s notice.
Frana’s eyes bulged as he saw me coming. He brought his arm up to fire at me but it got lodged between the wall and his desk. He needed to turn it sideways to get it free.
He did, but I had already launched myself at him, my foot aiming straight for his chin.
The moment he raised his blaster and opened fire was the exact same my foot connected with his jaw.
He made a deep “Duh!” noise that might have been comical under different circumstances.
His arm flapped around and fired haphazardly.
I drew back my leg and snapped at his face over and over again until, finally, his body went slack and he slumped forward.
