chest so fucking hard I don’t know if I can stand it. I’m so terrified right now I can’t breathe.
Oh, God, I really can’t breathe.
Wyatt brings the knife to my breast as I try to catch myself, but my head is swirling, and I can’t function enough to even stop him. “When the wound opens, your blood will mix with the rest of the family, then we will be as one.”
“You’re fucking crazy,” I yell as he pushes the tip of the blade into my skin.
I let out a shriek with the pain, but as I do, a massive blast sends debris raining down over us from up the hill. The main house goes up in a fireball causing everyone to scramble.
Wyatt drops the knife into the murky depths of the water. “Fuck! Go check it out. Now.” He turns back to me as I pant, trying to catch my breath. “We’re not letting this go, Ivy. You will be cleansed.”
“Not on my watch,” Void calls out from behind a tree, drawing his gun then aiming it at his father.
But Wyatt reaches out then pulls me in front of him as a shield.
Void’s alive!
Suddenly, bullets start firing as the women scream out in fear. Everyone runs off, trying to take shelter as hellfire has come to rain down on them all.
Wyatt’s grip on me tightens as my eyes snap around, trying to figure out where all the shooting is coming from. It takes me a second, but then I see Mafia soldiers in their flawlessly tailored suits, racing around shooting anything in a ridiculous ram mask.
Void sprints across the perfectly manicured lawns toward me, Dash flanked at his side. My eyes widen when I realize they’re working together as they gun down disciples on their way to reach me. Ram masks splinter, shattering apart as they shoot them in the face. Blood is running down their white shirts as they flop to the grass. Dead.
Wyatt grips hold of me tighter, keeping me as leverage as we stand in the water, watching everything unfold in front of us.
The disciples had no hope.
Tony pulls out a semi-automatic, mowing a bunch of them down, their stomachs exploding apart as I revel in their destruction.
I want to be a part of it.
I need to take a stand.
So, I reach up, grabbing Wyatt’s arms which are around me and bite down as hard as I fucking can, taking out a big chunk of flesh. He yelps in pain as I spit, then elbow him in the stomach. This forces the asshole to let me go. So, I turn, bringing my leg up through the water and knee him as hard as possible in the balls.
The asshole hunches over, his eyes bursting out of his head as he glares at me. “I thought you were sweet, innocent?”
I let out a mocking laugh. “You don’t know shit!” Then I tighten my left fist and sucker punch him right in the kisser. The asshole falls backward into the water, then floats to the top, completely knocked out.
I take a deep breath, glance down, and try to fix my dress as best I can. I don’t need Dash or Tony and his men witnessing my breast on full display, that would be enough for Void to have a coronary.
I manage to put myself away as Void surges forward in the water. Once he reaches me, he assesses me all over. His eyes tell a thousand stories, and right now, all I want to do is kiss the living hell out of him.
“I thought you were dead!” Tears well in my eyes, but I blink them away as best I can.
“I’m fine. A little smoke…” He soothes me with his hand. “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine now you’re here. I just want you to hold me.”
He looks me up and down again. “Let’s get this shit off you, then I’m never letting you go.”
“Gladly,” I reply.
Void moves in gripping hold, his front to my back as I dip down under the water, using my hands to wash all the fucking blood off me. I gasp as I come back up, his hands never leave me as I wipe my face, the water around us going crimson in color.
“This is disgusting… get me out of here.”
Dash jumps into the water, grabs Wyatt, then drags him ashore. I smile at Dash, and he dips his chin at me, then I turn to Void as the roaring of gunfire begins to settle down. I’m