She didn’t like this part. Her twin was better at patiently listening to the most boring things. Like couldn’t they throw a murder or something in there?
Her leg twitched slightly.
Kenzie forced it still.
She needed him closer.
“Yes, that does seem like it would work, but we can’t be sure until we try it out. I’ll schedule it for Monday,” he said like it was nothing more than a normal test run and not something that would likely kill hundreds of people and crash an economy. “Until I’m sure it’s right,you’ll remain my guest and so will she.”
“You told me you would let her go if I did this for you,” Lou argued.
“I lied. Take her away,” he ordered.
That was when she felt it. The ground shook subtly, like an explosion had happened but a distance away.
Her parents were here.
“What the hell was that?” Huisman asked and started barking orders to his guards.
They would blow something up and distract the guards while they infiltrated the castle.
But Huisman knew the place far better than they did, and he would likely have more than one escape plan in place.
She needed to try to take his ass out here and now.
The door closed and Huisman loomed over her. “I suspect we’ll have to put our plans on pause, Kala.”
There he was. His smug face stared down at her.
She smiled. “Name’s Kenzie, buddy, and Sosa says hi.”
She brought her arm up, burying the scalpel in the crook of his neck. Blood spurted, not in the insane amount she’d hoped for since she’d tried to clip his jugular. Well, her hands were shaking.
She needed another weapon. She would use her body as one, but it was kind of busted at the moment. Years of strength training and martial arts classes and she didn’t even get her Bruce Lee moment. Nope. She barely managed to get to her feet with Milena’s help.
“We need to go,” Milena said quietly as Huisman held his neck with one hand and pulled a gun with the other.
His first shot grazed her arm, but Milena managed to get them to the door.
She needed to kill that man.
But she needed to live more.
The door slid shut behind them.
There were guards running through the halls, obviously confused. One of them stopped Milena, saying something in a language Kenzie didn’t understand. Milena was quiet, her eyes submissively down as she explained.
Could she get his gun? Why did her hands have to shake so much? She needed to be stronger than this.
“I tell him the doctor wants me to take you back to your room,” she explained as they started down the hall.
“Stop them!” Huisman shouted behind them. “Stop those bitches.”
They probably would have if the gunfire hadn’t started.
Textbook Ian Taggart. Distract. Cause confusion. Use it to take out everyone in your path.
Unfortunately, she had to find Lou.
