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“Get rid of your sweats and get inside me, now,” I rasped.
“Angel, I—”
His body tensed a second before his cell alerted. He moved so fast. One moment, I was beneath him, enjoying his heat, ready to take him. The next second I sat on the bed and he was on his feet with his carbine aiming at the front door.
The door burst open. The sunlight cast a shadow over the figure that stood at the threshold. The outline of a soldier wearing a tactical vest and holding up a rifle with his eye to his scope froze in the foyer’s darkness. My stomach plunged. Had Bekker and his mercenaries arrived to finish us off?
Javier stood between me and the intruder, using his body to shield me. My heart hammered in my throat. I snatched a sheet and covered myself.
“Stay behind me,” Javier ordered, his carbine pressed into his cheek.
“What the fuck?” The man in the foyer swore.
I knew that voice.
Peeking around Javier’s body, I watched as the intruder dropped his aim to the ground at the same time Javier lowered his weapon.
The newcomer’s infuriated voice boomed in the room. “What the hell have you done, Guzman?”
Moving swiftly, the man hooked his weapon over his shoulder and stalked forward, out of the shadows and into thelight. I gasped when I finally made out his face. His clenched jaw was covered with an elegantly groomed stubble and his long, straight nose flared at the nostrils. His salt-and-pepper hair glinted under the light. The man’s dark, deep-set eyes narrowed on Javier,
Standing before us, tall, fit, and as graceful as always, was none other than Nix’s best friend, Thena’s boyfriend of ages, and Javier’s boss: Dash Dagger himself.
And he looked pissed.
***
Javier
“Let me explain.” I lifted my hands in the air even as Omega stalked toward me, his stare as black as that of the Grim Reaper’s himself. “Boss, I—”
The jab to the face left me seeing stars, but it was the blow to the guts that doubled me over. I took both with complete resignation, distantly aware of Missy’s screams. Making a supreme effort not to fight back, I gritted my teeth and straightened.
“Take this.” I engaged the safety and handed my carbine to Missy before I faced Omega again. “Go ahead. Do your thing.”
“Come on,” he muttered, spitting mad. “Fight back, you motherfucker.”
I shook my head. I wasn’t gonna hit a man who had a right to beat me to a pulp.
“If I survive,” I said. “I’d like a word with you.”
Wham. He landed another punch on my face. This one cut my lip on my tooth. I swallowed blood, but the tooth was still there and, even though my fingers curled into fists, I managed to control my reactions. Justice hurt, but what the hell. Omega deserved his revenge.
“Stop this!” Missy screamed, knotting the sheet under her arms before she flew off the bed. “Dash! I said stop!”
I shook my head and blinked the haze from my eyes just in time to see him coming at me like an enraged bull. He shoved me against the wall. Omega pinned me down with a hand to the throat and I let him.
“She’s like my sister,” he growled, sending spittle to sprinkle my face. “How dare you?”
“If you don’t stop right now, I’m never going to speak to you again.” Missy dangled from his right arm, using all of her strength to stop Omega. “I mean it, Dash.”
A vein popped on Dagger’s forehead as he squeezed, cutting off some of my air supply. Omega wore a gentlemen’s veneer most of the time, but he was a beast in a fight and he didn’t play games when he was pissed.
Missy jumped on his back, screaming like a banshee out of hell. Omega ignored her and kept me pinioned against the wall. I gave him credit for not crushing my windpipe. Flirting with the edge of hypoxia, tasting the blood in my mouth, I grinned. I didn’t care if Omega decided to kill me, fire me, or turn me into a slab of shredded meat.
“Why the fuck are you grinning, you son of a bitch?” Dagger snapped.
“Because…” I rasped and smiled at the same time. “She’s worth the pain.”
