Corey’s maintain on my arm tightened as he dragged me away.

They’d all used a separate staircase to come back into these underground chambers. This route led to the higher flooring of the manor.

I nonetheless had no concept how Nick, Corey, and Caleb have been right here. For a second, I questioned if I used to be nonetheless sure up in a darkish cell and was dreaming of this chaotic rescue.

Caleb’s labored breaths advised me this was no dream. Noah’s blood soaking my shirt felt very actual. This was actually occurring.

Quickly, we got here up onto a brightly-lit hallway. Nick was already on the far finish, giving directions to somebody on the telephone.

“The ambulance is on its approach,” Nick mentioned once we reached him.

“Are you positive you’ll deal with the whole lot right here?” Corey requested as Caleb rushed away with Noah on his again.

“Yeah. Simply make certain they’re okay.”

“Thanks, man.” Corey gave a grim nod and pulled me alongside him.

I regarded throughout me, taking within the huge, empty hallways of Beckett Manor. Not one of the males I’d seen earlier have been current. The place’d all of them gone?

I discovered Luke sitting on an opulent sofa within the entrance corridor of the home. His face was overwhelmed up so badly I may barely acknowledge it.

He lurched to his toes the second he noticed us.

I clutched onto Corey’s arm without delay.

“Don’t be scared,” he advised me in a low, grim tone. “He’ll by no means lay his fingers on you once more.”

“What occurred?” Luke demanded angrily. He hobbled over to us however maintained a secure distance. “The place’s my dad?”

“He’s lifeless,” mentioned Corey.

Luke’s eyes widened as he stumbled backward.

Caleb moved over to a sofa and dropped Noah on it.

Corey stepped away to assist, placing Noah’s toes on the sofa. Collectively, they tore his shirt’s sleeves, revealing an indignant, crimson bullet gap in his left shoulder that was slowly however steadily oozing blood.

I stood in the identical spot, watching them bind the wound with bits of their torn shirt. Noah lay unconscious, now not groaning in opposition to the ache in his overwhelmed, abused physique.

He’s dying, I noticed with a painful ache in my chest.

Guilt unfold via me. How may I let this occur to him? He was already severely injured. I ought to’ve been the one to guard him from Invoice.

Luke took his probability to get nearer to me.

Grabbing my arm in a painful grip, he whirled me round so I used to be dealing with him. “What occurred down there?” he requested in a hate-filled voice. “There’s no approach my dad’s lifeless.”

“He’s lifeless,” I mentioned, assembly his indignant gaze. “Go examine for your self.”

He grabbed a handful of my hair and tugged exhausting, forcing me to search for at him. “Who shot him?”

“Does it matter, Luke? He’s lifeless.”

“Inform me!” he spat.

“I advised you from the beginning,” I continued in a lifeless tone. “You shouldn’t have listened to your father. How may you suppose you’d get away with what you’d deliberate? Kidnapping, assault, homicide. These are all of the methods you’ll land in jail.”

I used to be wrenched away from Luke’s maintain.

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