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Who killed him?
I glanced back over my shoulder.
Valentina held her hostage’s gun. Meanwhile, the hostage lay on the floor in a pool of blood with his neck slit.
I smiled. “Are you trying to replace David?”
“Only if I get a promotion.”
Tisha slung his hostage away and then shot him in the head. The man screamed and then fell to the ground. Tisha stepped over him. “We should hurry. There is already a war outside the compound.”
“And the pansy? Rafael? Where is he?”
“He went to handle the guards outside of the house.”
I turned back to the platform and stared at the Eye. “We do not leave without that jar.”
Tisha got to my side. “I love you, cousin, but my job duties end at alligators.”
I smirked. “Scared?”
He frowned at me.
Valentina shook her head. “I will go in and—”
“You will not.” I took off my shoes. “I will do it, just—”
“Hold on! If I was David, you would let me go in—”
“But, you are not David, you are my sister who I love very much, and you are the mother of my favorite niece.”
“You only have one niece.”
“Yet, she still is my favorite.” I gestured to the dead men on the ground. “Drag them to the pit and push them in. The dead will distract the alligators.”
Tisha sighed. “That might not be enough, Kazimir.”
“There are several alligators eating the woman.” I got to the edge of the pit. “There will be others that go for the men. All you need to do is shoot the ones that come for me.”
“At least take this.” Valentina threw the knife my way.
I caught it.
She cursed under her breath and helped Tisha drag the men over.
As I stood close to the pit, several alligators gazed up at me, waiting to feast on my flesh. The very idea of going in there with them did not excite me at all. In fact, a fearsome fire blazed in my very core, screaming in my head to not do it.
But then I thought of my mouse. Sweet, beautiful Emily. Her laughter alone had brightened some of my darkest days. Upon being with her, I now had my own family—two sons and more children to come.
She needed the Eye.
I still didn’t fully understand why, but if Delphine said it was important, then it was important.
I am doing it.
In the end, my mouse was worth facing a hundred pits of alligators, if needed.
It will be fine.
