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“Emanuel was nothing but a pawn in a much bigger board. You are fighting a game you won’t win against him. So I’m removing you from the losing side.” He sneered in my direction, and Lilith’s eyes met with mine. Her crazy smile turned into a sweet one.

“Hi, honey.” She tried to wave but couldn’t, since her hands were tied to the chair’s arms.  Ezra scoffed and turned to throw a cheap punch to my gut.

“I bet right now you wish you hadn’t married this batshit crazy woman.” I looked at him with as much hate as I could.

“No regrets?” he asked with an asshole smirk on his face. Maybe it was the pain that was radiating in my temples or his words, but a flash of Lilith asking me the same question with love shining in her eyes ran through my head.

“I’d never deserved something so precious as you, Lilith. But I vow that I’m going to sew our broken souls together and protect the good remaining inside us,” I whispered, looking into her eyes instead of his. I said that the night we got married. I remembered that little scene before we kissed as husband and wife.  Now I understood why she fought for us so much.  I loved her, even then. I might not have been able to admit it, but now I got it all. Why I married her, why she married me. She saw the broken man in me and was willing to give me her heart to mend mine. As I would do the same for her. Two broken halves of a soul, made whole together.

“How sweet,” Yonny laughed, and I heard Charles start to stir. Which was both a blessing and a curse.  We needed to find a way out of here soon, or he was going to die.

“Ezra, we both know I will kill you as soon as I get loose. You have nothing to hold over me this time.” She looked at the man with a glint in her eyes that promised death. Then she looked at me.

“I was going to kill him when I left, but he signed the papers to give me my freedom, AKA divorce, if I spared his life, and I wouldn’t have to see him again. Liar.” She winked, and then went back to staring at him. Good to know she wasn’t married to him and me at the same time.

“Enough!” Ezra shouted then turned toward his man.

“Where is he?” He was getting impatient for the man who wanted me kidnapped to collect his prize.

“I got nothing, boss.” Yonny shrugged, and that only made Ezra’s muscles tense more.

“Leon.” Charles’s voice was faint as he looked at me. Shit. Blood was running out from the corners of his nose. I looked back at Lilith with wide eyes on my face. She had a calculated look on her face, but then smiled.

“Well, too bad for you guys that the others are arriving now. So this little game is over.” She was bluffing. If the others were here, they would have saved us by now, and Ezra warned her to come alone. She wouldn’t have endangered them in this fight after this morning. Would she?

“Then Yonny will take care of them.” He swatted the air like the thought of defeat was a bug to him.

“Yeah, right, they are the strongest people in the world.” Her words only made him laugh.

“Pretty sure you all have no idea who you are truly up against. The man would demolish anyone with a simple flick of his hand.” Ezra shook from the thought. Fear?

Despite if she was bluffing or not, I was shocked as hell when Draco and Phillip did burst through the door.

“Fine. If I can’t have you, then he won’t either.” Ezra knew he was done for as he grabbed the knife and drove is straight into my gut. The pain was unimaginable. Even when he tortured me with the knife to other body parts, this was nothing like that.

Lilith was somehow free, and managed to get the knife from his hand with ease.

“My bird.”He said her pet name to her one more time, looking into the eyes that would end him.

“I’m a fucking firebird, and now you’re ash.” She uppercut the knife straight up his chin and into his head.

His body fell over in a heap. Yonny was no better at Draco’s hands.

“We’ve got to get him to the hospital. Both of them.” Phillip grabbed the key that was around Ezra’s bloody neck.

My whole body was losing strength, and I didn’t know how much more time I had.

“I love you, darling,” I told Lilith as she watched me with pain in her eyes. I hated seeing that look on her. She deserved to smile all the time.  Tears broke from her eyes, and I wished I could have leaned in to kiss them away.

“Call me darling one more time…” She shook with emotion, shaking her head.  My vision was once again going, and I doubted I was going to come to after this blackout.

“Darling,” I whispered then everything went black.