Total pages in book: 76
Estimated words: 75248 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 376(@200wpm)___ 301(@250wpm)___ 251(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75248 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 376(@200wpm)___ 301(@250wpm)___ 251(@300wpm)
She stiffly walked at my side, keeping as much distance between us as she could while we made our way in the direction of the kitchen.
It wasn’t the way she moved at my side that alerted me to the possible problem.
No, it was the way that every single woman in the room moved out of her way. Not overly scared, but wary. Almost as if the woman had given them a reason to be scared of her.
I realized the problem at the same time that she did, and that’s when she produced a pistol from her front and brandished it, pointing it straight at my head.
Where she’d stowed it, I didn’t know. At that point, though, it didn’t matter.
I moved like lightning, and it still wasn’t enough.
How some small woman, who was barely five foot anything could get the drop on me, I didn’t know, but she did.
One second I was walking at her side, my hand at her mid-back as I guided her to where I wanted her, and the next she was shooting me in the head.
I had enough time to move, but not enough to keep me from getting shot.
Lucky for me, I was able to drop and throw my body at her, which threw off her aim. Going from the middle of my face to the top of my head.
I went down, but I took the bitch with me.
Chapter 22
Shut up, I wear heels bigger than your dick.
-Raven’s secret thoughts
Raven
I stared at the cameras, hoping beyond hope that what I was seeing wasn’t what I was seeing.
But the man shifted again, and Nathan, Wolf’s baby boy, shifted with him.
His eyes were closed and he looked like he was dead.
Mig was nowhere to be seen and hadn’t shown in the hour and a half that I’d been in here, and now I was staring at one of my worst nightmares.
The only thing that was keeping me slightly calm was the fact that it was my brother who had Nathan and not the creepy guy beside him.
“Come out, come out, wherever you are!” the creepy fucker called, looking directly into the camera as if he knew I was there watching him.
I wanted to knock him in the face with my knee.
And I would.
As soon as I had Nathan safe.
Knowing this might turn out to bite me in the ass, I fired off a text to Wolf, Mig, Peek, and Alison, and then centered myself.
Going against everything inside me that screamed for me to stay put, I unlocked the door using the code that Wolf had given me a few weeks ago and hurried straight toward the front door where I knew they were.
I yanked open the door without checking to see if anyone was there, and came face-to-face with one of my worst nightmares.
“What did you do to him?” I hissed, reaching for Nathan.
My brother—who’d never so much as looked at me like he knew me—handed Nathan over as if that was what he intended to do all along. Almost as if he were just dropping him off from spending the day with him.
Nathan settled in my arms and then wrapped himself around me like he always did, only sleepier.
Raphael’s eyes were blank as he stared at me. The other man’s, however, were not.
They were full of mirth as he reached for my hand.
“Come,” he pushed me into the house and followed behind me.
Raphael followed him, and then shut the door. The lock clicking shut was the loudest thing I’d ever heard.
“Who are y’all?” I backed up until my back was to the wall.
Everything inside of me was practically shaking in terror. On the outside, I was as cool as a cucumber, or at least I hoped I was anyway.
Nathan shifted until his face was against my neck, his hot breath breathing out against my skin with a little snore at the end that would’ve been adorable had we not been in this rather terrifying situation.
My eyes went to the gun on my brother’s hip and then went back to the other man who had a gun underneath his shoulder.
“We’re with the FBI,” the pale blue-eyed man said, sounding sickeningly sweet as he did. “We’re here to inform you that something has happened to your boyfriend.”
My brows furrowed, and I immediately moved my gaze from the blue-eyed man to my brother.
My brother gave an almost imperceptible shake of his head, and I realized that my instincts weren’t steering me wrong.
They were, in fact, telling me that I should be scared. That this man wasn’t who he said he was.
Sure, he may actually be with the FBI, but there was no reason on Earth that Nathan should be brought here if there was something wrong with Wolf.
First, his grandmother would be the one to call me had they contacted her, and second, everyone in the town knew that Wolf and I were together. Ridley was the law around these parts, and the man was Wolf’s brother. He would come to tell me. What he would not do was let some man that had no connection to me whatsoever come to me.