Total pages in book: 247
Estimated words: 248926 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1245(@200wpm)___ 996(@250wpm)___ 830(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 248926 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1245(@200wpm)___ 996(@250wpm)___ 830(@300wpm)
We had to get out of here.
“Let’s trade your friend for Paolo!” I was ten feet from the door. “Then, you can run down and leave! I just want Paolo!”
“How can we trust you?! You have already killed—”
“You killed my people too.” I closed in more distance. “Focus!”
A woman’s voice that I hadn’t heard yet, sounded. “I-if we. . .if we send Paolo out to you, then you will let us go?”
“I will.” I got to the door and leaned against the wall. “Your odds are pretty fucked right now. You probably have a good aim at me, but you will not leave this hallway alive if you don't negotiate.”
They spoke in that language again. I wished I could understand them.
Don't hurt Paolo. He's been through enough. Please.
I ducked my head in the door opening and spied what was going on.
One woman had her gun down, while listening to the other woman that was holding Paolo. He was the only one looking my way. When he spotted me, he widened his eyes.
I placed my finger over my lips.
Don’t say anything, baby.
I leaned back and gestured for Blue to rush across the doorway.
The women continued to talk. They sounded like they were arguing about what to do. It didn’t matter. I planned to grab Paolo soon, regardless of what they planned.
Blue got in front of me, did a quick glance in the opening, and rushed over.
Thankfully, Paolo still hadn’t yelled anything out. He was such a young kid, but he was slowly learning the rules of survival.
Valentina stood at my side. “I should be in front of you.”
“Why is that?”
“We have Valentino to think of.”
Before I could answer, one of the women yelled, “Alright! We will send Paolo out. . .then. . .you leave! All of you!”
“Okay. That’s fine with me!” I pressed my back against the wall. “I will take him and rush away with my people. We just want him.”
“But can we trust you?”
I rolled my eyes. “I am not the one that started this, ladies! I don’t even know you!”
“W-we thought we were saving him—”
“That’s why I will save you!” My chest rose and fell. We were so close to getting him back. “You didn’t mean him any harm so no harm will come to you!”
Valentina scowled at me.
“A-alright.” Noise came from the room. “He is coming to you.”
I looked at Blue and whispered. “Grab Paolo and get behind the guards.”
Blue widened her eyes.
“Got it?”
She nodded.
I leaned forward and peeked in.
Like she said, the woman let Paolo go and shoved him forward. “Run out.”
Paolo rushed away with his little legs. “Mysh! Mysh!”
I wanted to get him so bad, but I spotted the other woman putting her gun to her side. I raised my gun and readied myself.
Come on, baby. Get on out here.
Paolo rushed out of the room and into the hallway.
Fast, Blue gathered him up and headed off.
“No. No.” Paolo spotted me and cried, “Mysh! Mysh!”
“Just a minute, baby.” I stepped into the room and fired at the women.
They screamed.
I got one in the head. Her body dropped like a sack of wet cement.
The other ran off, shrieking. “No, please!”
I aimed her way and pulled the trigger over and over. Her chest exploded into a horrid mess of blood.
Valentina clapped behind me. “Oh goodie. I thought you were going to let them go.”
“Fuck that.” Heading into the room, I went to the first dead chick, lowered, and checked her pockets. I found a phone and wallet.
“Mysh!” Paolo sobbed in the hallway. “I want mysh!”
I spoke in my broken Russian. “I am coming, baby! One minute.”
Valentina strolled into the room and headed to the other woman. “This is so much fun. I love spending quality time with my sister.”
Rising, I turned on the woman’s phone. “Is that what we are doing?”
“When I was little, I always dreamed about having a sister.” Valentina searched the other woman’s body. “Growing up around so many men and boys can be depressing. They think you are automatically weak because you have a pussy. They talk down to you like they are smart when they are idiots.”
“I understand that more than you know.” I scrolled through the phone’s contacts.
Valentina rummaged through the other woman’s pockets. “Meanwhile, pussy is what brought them into the world.”
“True.”
“Women are gods.”
“All facts.” I found Fela’s number.
There we go.
I left the contacts, went to camera mode, and took a picture of the dead women on the floor. Then, I pocketed the phone. “Okay. Let’s go.”
Rising, Valentina waved a paper in the air. “This is the hotel’s blueprint. She also has a phone.”
“Bring it.” I headed out of the room. “We have to get to the helicopters before Kaz loses his mind. Plus, Italians are in the hotel.”
Out in the hallway, Blue struggled with Paolo. He was not letting her properly hold him. As soon as she spotted me, she let him down.