Chuckling and with a shake of his head, Aleksi opens his backpack, plucks out a box, and throws it at Niko. “It’s the third one he’s broken,” he murmurs. As soon as the box lands in Niko’s hands, he tears it open like it’s Christmas Eve and his parents told him he could only open one gift.
I’m about to crack a joke, but there’s movement on the screen in my periphery that catches my eye. I sit straight up. “Oh, fuck. Aleks—”
His grin falters. “What the fuck… is she doing?”
“Uhhhh… hold steady. I’m not sure. I have a feeling you’re gonna have to loop the cameras. Can you loop them, but we can still see exactly what she’s doing?”
“Yeah. Give me a sec." His fingers work like they’re on fire just as the door to the library opens and Raven rushes in with her phone in her hands and shows me the screen. Her trio comes in not even seconds behind her.
Soul-Sister: Not yet.
Two words. That’s all she was either able to send, or she’s going on a recon mission alone. Fuck. I rub at my chest then zero back in at thescreen just in time to see Sabrina in a fucking balaclava, wearing all black with my switchblade in her hand. She tucks it into the back of her waistband. I look over at Karma. “You give her that?”
She rolls her lips inwards, grins sheepishly, gives a slight shrug, and then lifts her hands.It’s my lucky one.
“That does not make me feel better,” I grumble. “I don’t feel right about this. Niko.” I pull him out of his shroud of self-hate. He snaps up and puts his self-torture device away. “Get some men on stand-by. We need to be ready to go.”
Niko gives me one curt nod and leaves the library quickly.
Raven crowds behind me as we watch Sabrina stick her head out of the door and look both ways. When she realizes it’s not only dark, it’s empty, she slinks one leg out and then the other smoothly, keeping her back to the wall like she’s not completely noticeable. My pulse skyrockets. The hallway is fucking empty becausethey’re all downstairswhere I bet she’s headed. “Fuck.”
I just about lose my goddamn mind when Raven starts playing the fuckin’ theme song toPink Pantherbehind me on her phone. Aleksi and the other guards do what they can to control their laughter, Jonas having the most issue with keeping his self-control in check as he keels over gasping, but his eyes are watering with the need to laugh. He groans while shaking his head, holding his stomach, then makes a shooing motion for me to look away.
Damon and Maverick scowl at their little hellion. Raven winces and stops the music after I glare at her, then puts her phone away. “S-sorry.”
Once Jonas is able to compose himself, we keep our eyes glued to the screen and stare as Sabrina has not only made it downstairs safely, but she’s in a totally separate wing now, hiding behind a wall as a guard passes her, going into another room. Before the door closes all the way, she keeps her hand on the knob, twists it, and lets it close softly. She leans into the door like she’s listening in on what’s going on, untucks the switchblade from her waistband, then slips inside.
“Do we have cameras in there?” I ask Aleksi.
He moves his hands fast, moving from one feed to another. “Must be a bathroom. No feed.”
“Oh God, baby, what are you doing?” I wonder out loud the longer she takes in there. But after fifteen minutes, we don’t have to wonder anymore.
Another guard goes in and we watch through the camera facing the bathroom. As soon as he has the door open, Sabrina jumps on his back, switchblade ready, and her arm moves in a swift swipe along his neck. Crimson pours all over the ground. The door closes a bit hard, catching the attention of the last guard at the end of the hall. He stands to go checkon his colleague. This time, the door stays open as we see Sabrina do the same thing… and then drag his body by the feet.
“I think she’s stacking the bodies in the shower if there is one,” Aleksi murmurs quietly like Sabrina can hear us and we’ll fuck up her concentration. After another twenty minutes, she sticks her head out of the bathroom and looks around. She wipes the switchblade on her pants and sneaks out again, but not before sticking her hand into the bathroom one last time. “She locked the door,” Aleksi breathes out.
We all let out a soft sigh of relief as Sabrina runs straight to where we’ve had Maksim’s feed since this morning. She knocks on the door, and she’s hauled inside and into his arms.
Wrapping her legs around his torso, she pulls off the ski mask and drops the switchblade as Maksim closes the door quietly then locks it behind them, kissing our girl with a hunger I’ve seen every fucking time we’ve fucked her together.
“Get out,” I order them, Aleksi immediately looking away. Raven tries to linger and watch, but I push her away and Jonas covers her eyes with one large hand, getting onto her for being a peeping Thomasina. She makes an unhurried, unashamed exit while reminding them Sabrina has caught them all in a few compromising positions over the past few months, and it’s only fair at this point for her toat leastwatch the tip go in. Maverick bends at the waist and scoops her up with a gruff, “Oh, I have a tip you can watch go in. Just the tip since you want to be a fucking brat.” I hear a few other words from Damon and Jonas I do not care to repeat.
“Stay on standby,” I call out after them. Raven salutes me with a grin on her face. I cringe at that with a shake of my head when Jonas looks back and casts a more than mischievous grin that matches Raven’s my way.
I wait for them to leave the library, and then I tug my dick out, completely unashamed about watching thisnext part.
Chapter Twenty-Two
Maksim.
She is wet and sticky, but I don’t fucking care. She’s in my arms, and her kisses areravenousand desperate. My beautiful wife tastes of manic violence and smells like my enemy's blood.
“Cara mia, whose blood?” I ask between open-mouthed kisses.
“Theirs, amore,” she replies breathlessly as we both tug her top off and it falls to the ground with a sopping wet red and blackthwop.
My cock grows heavy and fat with the need to both ruin and love her entirely. I inhale her naked nipple as soon as her bra comes off, and I thank whatever gods are there that the blood didn’t soak through the material. Sucking her deep into my mouth, I groan at the taste of my ray of violence back on my taste buds. Her center grinds against my hard length, already writhing for me.
