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“She needs help,” I growl. “Dante can—”
“Dante can do nothing,” Valentine snaps. “Besides, it doesn’t really matter if she’s awake now, does it?”
It takes me a moment to realize what he means by this as he grabs her and pulls her legs over his side of the desk.
“You can’t be serious,” I hiss, struggling against the men as they hold me down.
Valentine ignores me, reaching up under the oversized shirt Evi’s wearing to pull off her underwear and toss it aside.
“Luci, do something!” Dante shouts as his father unbuckles his belt.
“Just like you, son. Lucien can do nothing,” Valentine sneers, leaning forward over Evi’s body toward me. “He’s as worthless as they get.”
I glare up at him as his cold eyes meet mine, and then my heart stops beating altogether as he lurches forward, and she lets out a blood curdling scream.
For a moment, time seems to stop before everything descends into chaos.
“No!” I roar, my body suddenly taking on a life of its own as power unlike anything I’ve ever known surges through me, red bleeding into my vision.
Leaping to my feet, I yank myself free of the men holding my chains, and manage to tear one’s head off before sending the other two crashing headfirst into a wall. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Dante pull himself to his feet, his body fighting to shake off the paralysis.
A heavy thud has our attention turning toward the couch as a large hand grips the back, Seven’s hulking form slowly appearing from behind it.
28
Seven
“Itold you,” I say, my chest reverberating with a low growl, “never to touch her again.”
I lunge at Valentine, throwing him back against the window just as Luci pulls Evi off the desk and onto the floor.
“Did he take you?” Luci asks, worriedly brushing the hair from her face.
Evi shakes her head just as Valentine inhales sharply, his breath ragged in his throat, and I realize what’s actually happened.
“Shit, Dante,” I breathe, as I stare down at the dagger lodged in his chest.
“Seven, what have you done?” Dante hisses.
“I didn’t do any—”
“I did it,” Evi says, her voice barely audible. “We found proof. The police … are downstairs.”
“Is that true?” Dante asks.
“Yes,” Luci answers, reaching into the bag to pull out a young woman’s head. “She was Evi’s friend, killed on the night we met her … and there’s a hell of a lot more evidence back in Valentine’s office.”
“Bloody hell, you’ve actually done it.”
Evi gives us a weak smile as her chin abruptly drops to her chest.
“Evi? Evi stay with us,” Luci says, gently tapping her cheek with the flat of his fingers. “Dante, you have to do something. She’s not going to last much longer as she is.”
Valentine chuckles at this.
“What’s so funny?” I ask, tilting my head to the side as my fingers tighten around his neck.
“That even now, you can’t get rid of me. Youstillneed me.”
