Kaden Hunter is staring straight at me.

Versus Jace and Rico, whose brown hair curls softly, Kaden’s hair is black and straight. Extreme. The whole lot about him is extreme. From the sharp minimize of his cheekbones to the deadly muscle groups his physique is carved from to his chilly darkish brown eyes. Ice seeps by my veins on the approach these impassive eyes bore into mine, making my pulse flutter nervously.

Nearly each time I see Kaden, he’s twirling a knife in his hand. He was when he rounded the nook, however he’s not anymore. Now, he’s simply standing there, fully nonetheless, whereas gazing me. Like a predator sizing up its prey. And all I can do is to simply stare again at him with huge eyes whereas my coronary heart thunders in my chest, as a result of I abruptly get the sensation that if I a lot as breathe proper now, he’s going to assault.

“Alina, get to the automotive,” Mikhail snaps from proper subsequent to me.

However I can’t take my eyes off Kaden. As a result of if I do, I simply know that one thing unhealthy goes to occur.

A sluggish smile, the smile of a real psychopath, spreads throughout Kaden’s lips. It sends a flicker of worry by my physique.

“What’s this, Mikhail?” Kaden says, although his darkish eyes stay locked on me. “You have got somewhat sister? You’ve been holding out on me.”

Mikhail instantly takes a step ahead, angling his physique so that he’s shielding me. Chilly hatred drips from his voice as he growls, “Should you come inside six ft of her, I’ll kill you.”

That sadistic smile on Kaden’s mouth widens.

It makes Anton and the twins shift nearer to me as properly.

I flick a fast look at them earlier than assembly Kaden’s stare once more.

Shock shoots by me.

Kaden isn’t taking a look at me the way in which Rico did. He isn’t taking a look at me as if I’m breakable. He’s taking a look at me as if he needs to see simply how a lot I can take earlier than he breaks me. A refined distinction. However a distinction nonetheless. And the belief sends a bolt of electrical energy by my backbone.

Nevertheless, earlier than I can decipher that emotion, Kaden takes a step ahead.

My brothers react instantly. Lurching ahead, they attempt to entice Kaden between them. However earlier than they will, Rico darts ahead and slams a fist into Anton’s aspect. I jerk again as Mikhail goals a tough kick in direction of Kaden whereas my cousins have interaction Jace.

The sounds of punches and kicks echo by the temperate morning air as they battle. And all I can do is to face there uselessly and watch. Frustration wells up inside me as a result of I desperately wish to assist. However I do know that if I do, I’ll solely get in the way in which.

I’m not a fighter. I didn’t enroll at this college to turn out to be an murderer. The one cause I’m right here is as a result of I managed to persuade my father that it will be higher if I had some primary coaching earlier than he married me off to somebody he needed an alliance with. That approach, it will be harder for my future husband and his household to benefit from our household. Or that’s what I instructed him a minimum of.

However I’m not right here to coach. I’m right here as a result of I desperately needed out of an organized engagement earlier than it was too late. I’m right here as a result of I need just a few years of freedom earlier than I’m pressured into one other organized marriage. As a result of I do know that irrespective of how a lot I encourage, my father gained’t break off my subsequent engagement as properly. The following match he makes for me will likely be non-negotiable.

So all I can do whereas my brothers and cousins battle is to observe. As ineffective because the glass figurine that everybody all the time treats me as.

Panic pulses by my physique as Kaden abruptly feints a strike to Mikhail’s left however as an alternative dives to the correct. In direction of me. I attempt to scramble backwards, however Kaden grabs my arm earlier than I can get away.

His fingers dig into my higher arm as he yanks me in direction of him.

Air escapes my lungs in a huff as my again slams into his onerous chest.

A second later, the chilly fringe of a knife seems throughout my throat.

Throughout us, the battle involves a halt.

My coronary heart is thrashing so wildly that I’m positive Kaden can really feel it.

“Yet another step, and I’ll slit her throat,” the psycho behind me pronounces.

From two steps away, Mikhail is staring on the two of us with a mixture of horror, panic, and hatred in his blue eyes.

“You progress one muscle, and we’ll break his arm,” Maksim retorts.

I snap my gaze in direction of my cousin. Hope surges in my chest. Anton and Rico are standing just a few steps from us, and from one another, however the twins have now managed to get Jace down on one knee after he determined to go away himself huge open for Maksim so as to cease Konstantin from reaching Rico a minute in the past. Konstantin now as an alternative has a hand on the again of Jace’s neck, forcing him to remain down, whereas Maksim is pushing his arm up at an angle that appears very painful.

Deafening silence hangs over the empty road like a crackling lightning storm.

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