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He raises his arm, preparing to slap me. Maurice presses on my shoulders and as Councilor Augustus brings his arm down, I close my eyes, turn my face, instinct taking over.
But the slap never comes. Instead, a commotion of voices, of screams to get the hell out of the way has me open my eyes just as Zeke hurls himself into the room and at Councilor Augustus, grabbing his arm mid-air and wrenching him away, throwing him against the wall.
Maurice releases me and he and another soldier grab Zeke, but I can see the damage is done, the Councilor is caught off guard, unprepared, I suppose, for this breach of his property.
“You touch her, you fucking lay a hand on her, and I will fucking bury you!” Zeke roars.
I’m on my feet, going to Zeke, stepping between him and Augustus because all those men that were at the house are now here, filing into the room, closing in on him.
“I’m okay, Zeke. Zeke? Look at me.”
It takes him a long, long time to do it. To drag his gaze from the monster to me, the rage in his eyes a fucking inferno.
“Get the hell off me.” He tugs free of the men and cups my face, searching my eyes before we all turn to the door, to the next impossibility.
I gasp.
Zeke pulls me to him as the Councilor peels himself from the wall and turns to the man entering. He pushes his hair back, but it’s ruined, his perfect coif destroyed when he beat his wife.
“Lucky Thorne,” the Councilor says.
My father only has eyes for me, though. My heart races and my hands are fists at my sides. Because what I see is the man who broke my sister. Who beat her, would have drowned her. The man who destroyed her life.
“Well, Little Blue Rabbit. It’s good to see you, sweetheart.”
I would charge him if Zeke weren’t holding me back. I’d carve out his eyes with my fingernails.
“You have it. You have the laptop,” Zeke says to the Councilor who turns to him. “You fucking come near her again, and I will fucking put you in the ground, Councilor or not.”
He keeps a tight arm around me as he walks us to the door and I glance back at Ines, still kneeling on the floor, her robe tied around her, watching, a grin spreading across her face before her laughter rings out, the unhinged laughter of a mad woman.
“Get the fuck out of my way,” Zeke tells the soldiers.
“Let them go,” the Councilor calls and they do, and Zeke moves us quickly through the house and out to where Dex is waiting, the car idling.
Without a look back, he opens the back door and helps me in then climbs in after me and we take off. “Did he hurt you?”
I shake my head. “He made me watch as he beat his wife. He’s a sick bastard, Zeke.” I wipe my eyes at the memory.
Zeke’s jaw tightens.
“But wait,” I start. “The computer… There are no files on it.”
“It’ll take him a little while to figure that out. But we don’t have much time.”
“My father,” I say.
He looks at me. “I wanted to kill him. I will. I promise. But it was a trap to get me out of the house. So, I trapped Augustus. At least temporarily.”
“What now?”
“What now? You really have to ask? Now I get you on a plane out of the country and out of reach.”
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“What? No, Zeke. No way. I’m not leaving, not without Wren and not without you.”
