I turn to see him frantically searching the area around us. "What's wrong?" I ask.
"Katya's gone!" he says in a panic. He looks towards the house, and his face falls. "She must have followed Wraith."
I clasp my hand on his shoulder. "I'm sure Wraith will watch over her."
He hangs his head and nods. "Fuck, I hope so," he mutters.
I allow some time to pass before Jax and I maneuver our way over the fence. The muffled gunshots can be heard sporadically throughout the property as Gio's men are taken out by weapons equipped with silencers.
Seeing a clear path to a back service door of the mansion, Jax uses a large rock he finds nearby and breaks off the handle of the door.
We enter the house just as the lights flicker back on. Tearing off our goggles, we move carefully through the house with our guns in our outstretched hands. Jax and I tread lightly through the kitchen. But when I hear Adeline's screams coming from a few rooms over, I forget all about my safety and take off running.
"Lucien!" Jax hisses from behind me, but I don't stop.
I need to find her.
On the floor of the dining room is Adeline, and on top of her, trying to hold her down is that fucking bastard, Giovanni.
"Get the fuck off of her!" I roar.
My voice startles the hell out of him, and his head snaps up. His eyes narrow when he sees me, and I know he's wondering in that moment if he's seeing a fucking ghost.
"Look who's back from the dead," he sneers. In a quick move, he stands, pulling Adeline up with him. He positions her in front of him, using her as a human shield.
The fucking coward.
With one hand wrapped around her chest and one hand gripping her hair painfully, Adeline cries out in pain. Her eyes are wide and filled with tears as she stares at me with shock lacing her features.
I want to reassure Adeline that everything is going to be fine and that we're going to be okay. But there will be plenty time for our reunion later, because right now I'm transfixed on my sweet fucking revenge. The urge to kill him is too strong in me now. I want to make him suffer and make him feel every ounce of pain he has put us through.
"Let. Her. Go," I growl, emphasizing each word.
"If I let her go, I'll never get out of here alive," Giovanni says, slowly taking a step back towards another room.
I'm quick to match his steps, not letting him out of my sight. "You're not getting out alive either way," I tell him in response.
He moves his hand to Adeline's neck, squeezing her throat in a threatening manner. "Perhaps, but I like my odds better this way."
"Coward," I spit at him.
Adeline gasps for air, and my heart skips around nervously in my chest. "It will be okay, Adeline," I tell her. "I won't let anything happen to you."
Giovanni clicks his tongue against his teeth. "Making promises that you can't keep again, Wolf?"
"Says the dead man walking," I hiss.
A shadow appears in the next room, and I know right away that the mammoth man is Wraith. He's sneaking up behind Giovanni slowly, and I just need to buy some time.
"Let me go and I won't snap her pretty little neck," Giovanni tells me menacingly.
"You're not getting it," I tell him, scratching my forehead with my free hand and giving him a sly grin. "There's nowhere for you to go. FBI agents have this place surrounded, and they're dead set on taking you."
"Lies," he says, but I can hear the nervous edge to his tone. "You're a fucking liar. The FBI would never work with you."
"It's funny how a common goal can bring two complete opposite parties together." I take a step closer to him, knowing that Wraith is almost there. "They want to take you in…alive." I watch in the corner of my eye as Wraith steps up behind the sonofabitch. "But I have other plans."
Giovanni opens his mouth to respond, but it's too late. Wraith grabs Giovanni's arms and hauls him backwards, twisting him away from Adeline. He pulls Giovanni's right arm behind his back roughly and sharply. I can hear his shoulder popping out of place and his bones snapping from where I'm standing, and I grimace.
