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Chapter Thirty-One

Leon

The dude in front of me was there, but it was like his body had taken on a lightness to it that made him like air.

Shit.

Draco didn’t waste time, moving past the guy while his mean eyes were on me.

“There’s still time to change your mind, Emanuel. We can be in this together, right the wrongs of our past.” Draco stopped a few feet away from him.

“Time to die, punk,” big dude whispered in a deep voice to me. Then I felt like I was being squeezed by intense air pressure. I grunted from the tightness around my chest.

I pulled my arms out and tried to grasp his arms, hoping I could toss his form down the stairs, but my fingers felt nothing but air. How was I supposed to fight essentially a ghost?

Draco and Emanuel were staring at each other with serious looks, and neither had moved toward the other to fight. It was a standoff.

“We both know I won’t be dying tonight, so let’s just get on with this. I’ve still got three minutes to get out of here.” Emanuel shrugged off his suit jacket and rolled up his crisp, white sleeves.

Just as they clashed in a fight of fists, I was thrown back into the wall behind me. Shit, I had forgotten about the man of air.

“You can’t beat me.” His voice was turning into more of a hiss, and his body was fading more, almost unrecognizable as human.

“I’ll figure it out.” I jumped out of the wall that I’d been stuck in and ran fast at him, but instead of trying to grab him, I decided to see if maybe I could disperse him like air being spun in a fan.

“How’s that beautiful flower of yours? She looked like she was having a blast the other night at the club. I do love her spirit.” Emanuel was screwing with Draco, and I prayed he was staying a lot calmer than I was feeling. Rose was sweet and part of a family I never had. I didn’t like him talking about her.

I felt the man of air slowly start to dissipate, and hoped it was working how it was in my head.

Draco’s body crashed into mine, making us both fly back to the ground in a heap of heavy bodies.

“Shit!” I cursed, looking back to see if the man of air was gone, and he was. But that’s because he was standing next to Emanuel, who also had turned into a man of air.

“Double shit.” I looked at Draco to see if he had a quick plan.

“Get the others out of here; we’ve only got a minute left.” Draco pushed me toward the stairs.  I didn’t want to leave him, but he was right. We were running out of time. I raced down the stairs and saw that all the bad guys were gone, and so was my team.

Running to the boat, I saw that everyone was getting inside.

“Phillip warned everyone, and they must have known the plan, because they all left in the tour boat. Come on!” Rose waved me over to join them.

“Draco’s still inside. We can’t leave him.” I shook my head. I know he was immortal, but still, I don’t think he wanted to be inside an explosion.

“He survives no matter what, Leon. There are chances that you won’t make it out if you go back.” Phillip gave me a warning look along with his words.  I looked to Lilith, and saw her give me a grin. She knew I was going to go, and she wasn’t mad at me, or try to make me choose between my life and what was the right thing to do.

“I’ll get him back; get away from the island,” I told them and turned back toward the fort.  Probably only had about thirty seconds now.

Draco was holding his own against the two men, even though it wasn’t a fair fight. When he saw me he shook his head.

The men took advantage of his distraction and tossed him right into me.

“Fire is the only thing that will kill them in this state. It’ll burn all the oxygen out of their system. They won’t survive it. We have to hold them into the explosion and get out at the last minute.”  I understood his words, and with ten seconds left on the ticking bomb, there was no way I could second-guess it. I just crossed my fingers in my head that this was going to work, and I didn’t die.

“Last chance to turn over a new leaf,” Draco stood and told the men, who both laughed, a very hissy sound.

They started heading toward the window to escape. That wasn’t going to happen.  Running as fast as I could, I started running around them to keep the air inside my little speed tornado.