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“Fuck you.” I sneered at the asshole who was now dead and rushed over to the living room, where Zion and Eden were going head-to-head with four others.
One had his back to me, so I clubbed him on the head. He slumped forward and the second he turned, I shot him right between the eyes.
“He’s not on this floor,” I said once the last guy dropped.
Eden nodded. “House is quiet.”
“Something’s up if these guys were all here.” Zion checked his phone. “Aiden’s car is in the driveway of Louisa’s house still. He has to be here.”
“Or is he in Louisa’s house.” I had to wonder if it was a little bait and switch and switch again.
We raced through the house—every level, even the basement—but there was nothing.
“Fuck!”
“Praeses, we’ll find him.” Zion squeezed my shoulder.
Once outside, we headed to Louisa’s house. Through the windows there was nothing, but there were BILCO doors in the yard that weren’t bolted shut.
“Here.” Eden and Zion came over the same time two SUVs arrived, but I relaxed as soon as Axel jumped out. I waved them over, and now I had my exercitus.
“We time this. The four of us go through here; the others use the front and back doors.”
They all nodded. It took a minute but once everyone was in position, we all entered at the same time.
A shot was fired in our direction and we hit the floor. “Careful where you fire,” I ordered.
I looked up and saw something out of my nightmares. Three men tied to chairs, one, I believed was Rowan, clearly dead. Aiden’s hands wrapped around Fred’s throat, and the man I loved wasn’t breathing.
“You motherfucker.”
Aiden spun at the same time two others burst through the door, but I didn’t pay attention to the mayhem surrounding me. Aiden didn’t have his gun out, and I did.
In two seconds I shot his kneecaps off, and he collapsed to the ground. His gun fell out of his waistband, and I kicked it away and raised my pistol to his forehead.
“For the record, I never liked you, believed you, or trusted you.”
“I don’t give a fuck.”
I leaned down and stepped on his ankle, making him hiss. “I wasn’t done.”
I gestured over to where Fred was. Axel was working on him, and in a moment I’d be right beside him.
“He did, though. You were all he thought he had in the world.”
“He was weak.”
I pressed the barrel of the gun to his head, and with my other foot I slammed on his wrist, relishing the sound of the crunch and his screams. “No, he’s the strongest man I know. He knew he had to kill you but didn’t want to do it. And that’s okay, because you know why?”
He said nothing, just glared at me. But I wanted to hear him, so I pressed harder on his broken ankle, smiling when he screeched in anguish. Music to my ears.
“Because I actually do want to kill you.”
He opened his mouth to speak but I squeezed the trigger.
“I have to get him off this, where are the keys?”
With brain matter on my shirt and blood dripping from my hair I turned to Finn, who was staring at Aiden’s dead body.
