Total pages in book: 158
Estimated words: 154037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 770(@200wpm)___ 616(@250wpm)___ 513(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 154037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 770(@200wpm)___ 616(@250wpm)___ 513(@300wpm)
Now, he hauled her back against his chest and pressed a knife to her throat.
Sienna hovered just off to the side, antsy as fuck as she looked between me and Gideon.
Trepidation had my insides quaking, but I refused to let it show as I ground out, “Drop the knife.”
A crazed smile pulled across Gideon’s face. “Yeah, that’s not goin’ to happen.”
“She doesn’t have anything to do with this. This is between us, so drop the knife and you and I will hash this shit out.”
Derision rocked from him, and he yanked Raven harder against his chest. “This bitch killed my brother, and she’s not going anywhere until she gets what’s coming to her.”
It was my turn to be unprepared. The stake of questions that arrowed through me and pinned me to the spot.
What the fuck was he talking about?
I didn’t have time to contemplate it before the roar of a motorcycle revving from outside rang in the atmosphere.
It was the second cue. The one that had the front door busting open with Cash and Theo banging through, at the exact same time as Kane burst through the back door.
My whole crew piled in, guns drawn, hostility vibrating from their beings. Theo went for Sienna, pushing her down onto her knees before he turned his attention to Gideon and River.
“Now!” I shouted, praying to God Raven would get that single word was meant for her.
Since the woman knew me better than anyone else, she did.
She angled an elbow into his gut and took all the weight from her feet at the same time, using one of the techniques we’d taught her when she was a teen, tearing herself free of his vicious hold and dropping to the ground onto her knees.
It left him exposed.
He shouted, “You fuckin’ bitch.”
Last word barely got out of him before I squeezed the trigger, letting the single bullet fly.
My whole family would have been firing if it wasn’t for the fact that Raven was in a ball with her hands over her head in front of him.
I was aiming for his heart, but was too far to the left, and I hit him up closer to his shoulder. Roaring, he stumbled back a step, and the knife slipped from his hand.
That was all it took to send me running, raging across the room, throwing myself on top of him to keep him from coming back for Raven. I hit him with a thud, and the two of us toppled to the ground. We scrambled around, trying to get on top of the other.
A grunt heaved out of me when he got a punch in low at my ribs, bastard thinking he was gonna get the upper hand when he tossed me just to the side. Only I threw a fist at the same time, clocking him in the jaw. In a flash, I was right back on top of him, pinning him down while I pressed the barrel of a gun to his temple.
Teeth gritted, I pulled the trigger.
And somehow, I recognized it didn’t have a thing to do with the hate. No bearing on the thirst for retribution that had consumed me for so long.
It was for Raven. For the simple fact that I’d give anything to keep her safe.
He went limp below me, and I was washed in a vat of relief.
Only it didn’t last because a feral scream cut through the air. A pain so great as Sienna jumped to her feet and came running across the room with a knife held in one hand above her head.
And she was coming for me.
I could feel the reservation pummel the air. The way not one of my crew wanted to take her down since they’d committed their lives to helping women in need.
“Get down on your knees!” Theo shouted at her, but she kept coming.
A single gunshot popped off. I saw her stumble when it struck her low in the back of the leg, no doubt, Theo trying to injure her rather than end her.
Only she was already right there, refusing to let it stop her as she went to drive that knife straight into my back where I was still straddling Gideon.
Only Raven had pushed to her knees, and I saw a flash of metal.
A blade.
She had Gideon’s knife, and she drove it straight into Sienna’s stomach right before she got to me.
Shock dropped Sienna’s mouth open and froze her to the spot, her knife toppling to the ground as her hands went to the hilt of the blade that was buried in her abdomen.
Two seconds later, she dropped to her knees as a gush of blood poured from her mouth. Her eyes were wide as she gurgled and wheezed, before she faceplanted against the floor. Sprawled out dead in front of Raven.
Discordant breaths raked from Raven, horror tearing through her as she scrambled away. Only she was scrambling for me, throwing those arms around me as a sob erupted from her throat.