“The bathroom?”I wave a hand in the direction of my ankle.“Not as mobile as you think I am.”
“If you can go pee, you can move into the fucking bathroom.Now go.”He turns his back on us to face the door.
Bri hands me the crutches when the sound of someone breaking down a door next to our room scares the shit out of me.
“I’m scared,” I whisper and carefully swing my legs off the mattress.
“That makes two of us.”Bri swallows hard and opens the bathroom door.
They are hitting my bedroom door when I finally make it into the bathroom.
“Lock the door, get into the tub and get down,” I tell Bri.“I can’t get in there and am gonna sit on the toilet.”
Bri screams when wood shatters and deafening gunshots fill the air.
I give her a shove, making one of the crutches fall to the ground when I hiss, “Get into the damn tub, Bri.Now, dammit.”
Tears start to fall over her cheeks, but at least she’s listening to me.It’s a good thing too because her body disappears from my view when I’m roughly being grabbed from behind.I keep my mouth shut when they drag me out of the bathroom.I hope to hell Bri stays put.
“You’re a hard woman to find these days, Quinn,” a voice laced with cigarette smoke says.
A chill runs up my spine because I recognize the voice and the smell.It’s Cillian.Panic claws at my chest and I wildly check the room to find a way to escape.Fear hits me hard when I see Tate’s body on the floor, his clothes drenched with blood.
“No,” I whimper.
“Oh, yes.You’re mine, along with everything else.I should thank you.Maybe I’ll wring an extra few orgasms out of your body when I fuck you as a reward.”Cillian chuckles.“I’ve been wanting to get my hands on Reaux’s legacy for a long damn time.Even more when I failed with almost getting it the last time.Now I get to have it all by killing him and marrying his widow.A clean and simple transaction.Who knew it would be that fucking easy?”
No.This time it’s not a whimper.It’s a scream of my heart at the thought of Fiero being dead.Is he dead?I shift and by doing so I put pressure on my ankle.Pain hits and it causes my knees to buckle.Cillian isn’t expecting the dead weight shifting in his grip.I stumble to the floor.
My vision is blurry due to the hot tears falling.The pain in my chest is overriding my hurt ankle.Cillian reaches for me and the wave of hate for this man ruining everything is overwhelming.This man gave the opportunity to the man I’ve called a father all my damn life to ruin everything for my brother.My brother who he used for his own personal gain.
He drugged me while I was pregnant, wanted to kidnap me.And now he’s here in the house where I want to live with Fiero.Fiero who surprised me with his actions the past few days.Who I really think I can build something nice with.A future this man stole from me.
My gaze shifts to Tate’s bloody body when Cillian snarls, “Fucking incapable cunt.”
I’m roughly grabbed by my hair, forced to stand, and a scream rips from me.I want so much more in life and yet this might be the end of it all.The end of never having a chance to fall in love with Fiero.To never know if we would be great together.To never...
Gunshots are too loud and the pain in my head and heart becomes too much.I close my eyes and force myself to remember the moment when Fiero almost kissed me.Almost.More tears fall as I close my eyes and my body crashes to the floor.
