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Christina.
I search the room, my fear making my mouth taste like sandpaper, stripping me of the words I’m desperate to shout. I’m here. It’s okay.
She’s huddled on the floor next to a couch. My precious Angel.
A masked man is standing next to her, his gun to her head.
“Step away from her, now,” I shout.
I can feel, rather than see, Alec getting into position. I flick my eyes over to Enzo and know that he’s going to be the distraction.
Sure enough when he takes aim, the masked man focuses on him,
It’s a deadly mistake.
Alec takes the shot, hitting him right between the eyes.
I hear Christina whimper as she’s caught in the blood spray, but she’s alive.
“Room is clear,” Alec calls out.
I rush to her. She’s covered in blood and dirt. I don’t know if any of the blood is hers or not. I just need to touch her – to reassure myself that she’s okay.
“Nico,” she whispers when I drop to my knees beside her. “You came for me.”
Her eyes flicker shut and my heart clenches.
“Princess,” Enzo whispers, coming over to kneel beside her.
Her eyelids flutter but she doesn’t open her eyes. I look at him with concern.
She could be injured. And we still have to get her out.
“We need to go,” I say, firmly.
Carefully, I position my hands underneath her frail body and lift her, cradling her to my chest.
Alec and Enzo take up position around me, one in front, and one in back.
We retrace our steps, picking our way through the debris and bodies we left behind.
We’re almost to the exit when a group of three heavily armed men step out to block our way.
“Going somewhere, boys?” One of them asks, leveling his gun at us.
Alec and Enzo raise theirs too.
“Get out of our way,” Enzo orders.
“You’ll have to kill us to get her free,” the man standing between us and the exit spits. "Unless you wish to offer your life for hers?”
The glint of his knife is the only thing that gives him away. It pierces my thigh with calculated precision, extinguishing any hope of escape without incident as the searing pain burns through my skin.
But it doesn’t matter.
“You think we'll let her walk away after everything you've done?”
Enzo swiftly fires twice.
