After I heard them enter the room, my blood truly boiled. The way in which he spoke to her, the sound of him touching her, her scream, and the best way her voice shook when she pleaded with him to let her go. It added gasoline to an already burning fireplace inside me. A burning ball of hatred that has been rising for 2 years since Phoebe was taken. My brother’s ache is my ache and when Melissa willingly put herself ahead to assist rescue her, it made me madder than I’ve ever been. I’m not proud that I walked away. I ought to have been there for her, to assist along with her determination and reassure her that I wouldn’t let her stroll in right here alone.

Mikhail is a formidable opponent, and I knew she can be secure, however he isn’t me. He doesn’t love this girl and his coronary heart wouldn’t break if one thing went unsuitable along with his plan. That’s the reason I made my very own with the assistance of Lucian Romano. To cover within the turret and shield my woman as solely I can.

I draw back and love the emotion shining in her eyes as she whispers, “You got here for me.”

“I’ll all the time come for you.” My reply is husky and laden with promise. Melissa can have my safety till the day I die as a result of now I’ve discovered her, I’m not letting her go. Her expression tells me she feels the identical and I may stare at her all day, however the groaning man at my toes tells me I have to get again to enterprise.

I stroke her face and whisper, “Belief me, toddler. You’re secure with me.”

She nods, her face aglow with happiness, and whispers, “I belief you, Adonis. Inform me what I can do to assist.”

A rush of emotion hits me as she stares at me with open honesty, all her emotions written on her stunning face. I can’t assist myself and leaning in, I steal one other kiss as a result of proper on this second, Melissa has by no means appeared as stunning as she does now. I may drown in her magnificence and gorge on her need, however this isn’t the time or place for that. I’m right here on enterprise, which has all the time been my high precedence till she crashed into my life and jogged my memory I’ve a coronary heart in right here someplace.

I pull again and smile and jerk my head towards the crumpled heap on the bottom. “It’s time to make him pay.”

“What are you going to do?” Melissa’s eyes are large, however they don’t maintain any concern, merely morbid curiosity, and I grin wickedly.

“Now it’s my brother’s flip.”

I flip and reaching down, seize Hosea by his hair and he groans like a wounded animal as I haul him to his toes and nod towards the mattress. “Seize my gun and hand it to me.”

Melissa nods, leaping rapidly to consideration and as she slides the machine gun from underneath the mattress, her eyes widen with concern.

“Fuck, Adonis, you don’t fiddle.”

It makes me snicker. “No, I don’t.”

She palms it to me with trembling fingers and I jerk my head towards the door. “Open it however keep behind it.”

I practice the gun on the door as she takes a deep breath and does as I say and because it opens, I say firmly, “Stroll behind me and keep shut except I inform you in any other case.”

“Adonis, I–” Worry flares in her eyes and I do know she’s not used to this life, so I say reassuringly, “That is what I do, Melissa. I’ve every thing underneath management.”

Hosea stirs and his physique jerks as he comes again to consciousness and I reply by punching him onerous across the head, inflicting him to howl like a wild animal. Then I push the barrel of my revolver towards his temple as I sling the machine gun round my shoulder and hiss, “One sudden transfer and also you’re lifeless.”

He snarls, “You received’t depart this island alive. My guards will lower you down with one well-trained bullet proper between the eyes.”

“Preserve telling your self that, Hosea.” I snicker darkly as I push him via the door towards the slender steps main all the way down to the hallway. Melissa follows shut behind and as we attain the ultimate step, we’re confronted by two guards with their weapons raised.

Hosea cackles towards my hand and I press the gun more durable into his temple and growl, “Allow us to cross.”

Melissa’s enormous consumption of breath behind me tells me how shit scared she is, and I hiss, “Decrease your weapons.”

Hosea’s strangled cry makes me smile because the guards do as I say and decrease their weapons and step to the facet, refusing to acknowledge their boss in any respect. His muffled anger makes me snicker darkly as I push him down the hallway, Melissa shut on my heels. We attain the grand staircase and I’m so tempted to toss him over the balustrade however resort to pushing him onerous earlier than me down the steps.

We attain the massive entrance and I word how silent it’s. There are not any guards and no guests. They’re in any other case occupied within the many bedrooms proper now and we have now precisely twenty minutes left earlier than it’s changeover time. Mikhail was proper. The shift adjustments on the hour each hour till daybreak when the invited visitors swap to the subsequent bed room. Then the person with no room swaps with the final man standing, who watches over Hosea’s delusion of Psyche.

I push him via the doorways onto the gold carpet and we make our method up the hill towards the cross. “What’s happening? The place are the guards?” Hosea splutters and I snicker darkly.

“In any other case occupied as they care in your visitors.”

“However…” Hosea sounds much less certain of himself as I choose up our tempo and as we head up the hill, he screams, “The place are the guards?”

I’m conscious he’s referring to the leather-clad guards with swords as he realizes his valuable goddess has apparently been left with the final man standing.

The 2 figures watch us strategy and solely as we draw close to does it reveal Phoebe hand in hand with my brother.

“Nooo!!!” Hosea’s howl of rage echoes via the night time sky as he sees his beloved Psyche in one other man’s arms and I whisper darkly, “A winged serpent will carry her away and declare her as his. You realize the prophecy, Hosea. That is what occurs when it’s fulfilled.”

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