Total pages in book: 40
Estimated words: 40037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 200(@200wpm)___ 160(@250wpm)___ 133(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 40037 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 200(@200wpm)___ 160(@250wpm)___ 133(@300wpm)
She’ll be a beast. The perfect woman to be by my side.
She just needed a little push in the right direction.
I gestured at Leonardo. He had been with me for so long and would know exactly what I was thinking.
Simon was about to speak, but he stopped as Leonard marched his way.
I smiled. “My man will show you to your seat.”
“I don’t need to be shown anywhere.” Simon glared. “This is my room.”
“It’s not.” Kashmere pointed at the table. “Go sit down so that we can properly start this ridiculous meeting.”
“You don’t start the meeting, Kashmere.” Simon spat the words her way. “I do and—”
Leonardo yanked Simon up by the arms and dragged him off.
“Have you lost your damn mind?!” Simon punched at him.
The hits were nothing to Leonardo. He shoved Simon off the platform. Simon stumbled off and barely landed on his feet.
The man that was next to him, hurried his way. “Dad, are you okay?”
Some of the Board members at the table stood and grabbed their guns.
My soldiers pulled theirs out too.
One roared, “This is beyond disrespectful, Kashmere!”
Simon spotted that and shifted his fight to appearing more helpless. “Exactly! Look at what she does to her grandmother and me!”
That gave Leonardo the opportunity to drag him closer to the table.
“Get off me!” Simon yanked himself away.
Leonard looked at me.
I nodded. “Let the idiot go.”
Leonardo walked back to his position.
I turned to Kashmere.
But, her view remained on her grandma. Rage blazed over her face.
“Do you see our new Chairman? Disrespectful! Unfit and immature. Look at this!” Simon fixed his suit and stood by the table. “Look at what she’s done to the sanctity of this space—”
“Lord.” Her grandma clutched the holy cross dangling from her necklace. “Help us all, Jesus.”
“Her ancestors are rolling in their graves.” Simon raised his hands in the air and pranced around like a mad man. “In fact, all of our ancestors are upset. Is this what they worked for? To allow some spoiled brat disrespectful to her elders, unintelligent, unworthy whore to shit all over—”
A bullet drilled through Simon’s head, stopping his speech.
What?
My breath caught at the lovely imagery.
The bullet continued to move through him. Simon mouth went ajar. His eyes wide and frozen. A line of blood sprayed. Then his face fell forward like a puppet whose strings had all been cut. Then he collapsed to the floor like a bag of sand. His body twitched. Blood pooled around him.
Shocked, I turned to Kashmere.
My God. I love her.
She pointed her guns and kept her fingers on the trigger. “Fuck you!”
Well, there’s the push.
Chaos ensued next. Board members stood and yanked out their guns. A wave of fear and tension swept over the room. Violence sparked the air.
Here we go.
I jumped in front of Kashmere, not willing to let any bullet or harm come her way.
My soldiers drew their guns. Their weapons clicked as they readied them.
A bullet almost hit her.
“Goddamn it!” I didn’t know which Board member shot our way, but someone did.
I dragged us down to the floor, continuing to cover her.
Gunfire echoed throughout the space. People ran and shouted, while others cowered in fear. Men screamed. I caught her grandma screaming and others shuffling their feet.
I had my guns out.
“Fuck!” Kashmere wildly gazed at the madness as she gripped her guns. “I messed up!”
“You didn’t!” I pulled her safely back by her throne, keeping her behind me.
A bullet hit the wall just above our heads.
I turned to see where it came from and saw her grandmother pointing a gun at us.
Can I kill her without making Kashmere mad?
“Demon child!” Grandma fired again.
“No!” I moved out of the way.
The bullet whizzed past me and struck Kashmere’s leg.
“You trying to kill me, bitch!?” Kashmere shot her way as she fell back. “Fuck you too!”
“No.” I caught her before she crashed to the floor.
“Ah!” Her grandmother cried out in pain.
Holding my fiancé in my arms, I looked over my shoulder.
Good. Kash caught her.
The bullet hit Grandma. She was thrown back, crashing into another chair. The force propelled the chair across the room, where it toppled over a dead man and pinned him to the floor. Grandma looked down in shock as blood spilled out of her chest.
Kash’s people got to us next, picked her up, and helped us out of there.
I followed with my guns raised, searching for any possible enemy.
Yet, I saw none.
Well damn.
Only dead bodies scattered on the floor. Some were my men, but all represented the Board. Their eyes were frozen in death. Their mouths were slack. Blood soaked the carpet.
I smiled at the carnage. “And that’s how you show them who’s in charge.”
The Board members on the TV screens gaped at us in pure shock. But one of the men cheered and laughed.
“Bitches!” Kashmere yelled as her people carried her out. “Meeting adjourned, motherfuckers!”