Chapter 14
Chapter Fourteen
She’s fucking faster than I gave her credit for. No way am I letting her get the best of me, though. I slow down enough to let her think she’s lost me. Then I pull out my phone and call her brother.
Helena doesn’t know it yet, but I went to him last night. It didn’t sit right with me being in his house and going behind his back. I told him I was dead serious about his sister, and that if he had a problem with it, he should shoot me there and then.
Neo drew a gun from his desk drawer, pointed it at my head, and waited what seemed like a lifetime before he set it down again.
He’s not happy about me wanting to date his sister, not in the slightest. I’m not sure why he didn’t pull the trigger.
He told me to get out of his office before he changed his mind and, well, I listened.
Then, this morning, Neo pulled me aside and asked me to make our relationship somewhat public while also making it look like we were still hiding.
He predicted that Kye was watching Helena, would see it, and get enraged.
With the idea that his jealousy would force him to come out of the shadows and make his move.
I guess my boss was right because I’m now following Helena after she attempted to ditch me at the café. I want to reach her, pull her back, and shake some fucking sense into her. Who the fuck does she think she is? Risking her life by going off alone? She’s not even fucking armed.
Sweat beads across my forehead. The thought of something happening to her doesn’t sit well with me. I’ve never been more anxious on a job before.
“Yeah?” Neo finally answers his phone.
“You were right. She ran,” I tell him.
“You got eyes on her?” he asks me.
“Of course. I’m not letting her out of my sight.”
“I’m pulling up her location now. Thank god she didn’t leave her phone,” he says. “Why the fuck is she going into the park?”
Fuck if I know. “I’m right behind her. She doesn’t know I’m here.”
“Don’t lose her,” Neo growls in my ear. “I’m on my way.”
“I’ve got it.”
“If anything happens to her…” He stops short, but I don’t need him to finish. We both know what he was gonna say.
“It won’t. I won’t let anything happen to her.” It’s on the tip of my tongue to remind him that this was his plan. I didn’t want to go along with it. I didn’t want to put her at risk.
“I’m ten minutes out. Fuck, go faster!” Neo yells at someone in the background.
“I got this,” I repeat, and then the line cuts out.
I do have this. I’m not about to let anything happen to her. I can’t. I just found her. I can’t lose her. This is the first woman I’ve ever had the inclination to take home to meet my mother. That has to mean something right?
I follow Helena deeper into the park. It’s chilly and she didn’t even bring a coat. Another thing we’re going to have words about.
She stops at a bench and takes a seat as her eyes flick around. I duck behind a tree. She’s meeting him here. Why? Why the fuck would she run out to meet the guy who’s threatening her?
I watch as she checks her watch and then looks around again.
I don’t know how long I wait, how long she waits, before I spot a figure in a trench coat approaching her.
It’s not Kye. I’ve seen enough pictures of him to know what he looks like.
No, it’s his fucking brother. I knew there was something dodgy about that motherfucker.
I should just shoot the asshole now. I watch as surprise clouds Helena’s expression. I start making my way around the trees. I want to get on the other side of the fucker. I need the advantage of surprise, and I can’t do that if he sees me coming.
He sits down next to Helena. And by the time I make it behind the bench, I can tell she’s scared, even from behind her. Her shoulders are stiff. She’s looking straight ahead, and not at the man sitting next to her.
“You were always supposed to be mine,” I hear him say. Alan, that’s what she said his name was.
“I don’t…”
“Don’t talk. Just listen. This could have ended very differently, Helena. It’s your fault it didn’t,” he says.
“But Kye..”
“Kye is rotting in a hole. I killed the good-for-nothing asshole. He was supposed to bring you to me, and he fucked up. He let you go,” Alan says.
“He always brought them to me. Except you. What’s so special about you, Helena?
” The fucker reaches out a hand and brushes it across her face. Helena flinches.
“Remove your fucking hand before I remove it for you,” I growl at the same time cold steel digs into his skull.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, you were supposed to come alone, Helena.” Alan ignores the gun. And when I look over at his hand, the one partially concealed by his sleeve, I see why. He has a knife pressing into Helena’s side. “Guess it’s a good thing I didn’t come alone either.”
Before his words register, I hear a single gunshot. I jump over the bench, pushing Helena to the ground as pain radiates through my back. I manage to roll over enough to aim at Alan as he rushes towards me with the knife.
I fire off six shots. One to his head, two to the chest. And three more at his friend. “Who the fuck brings a knife to a gun fight?” I grunt as the blade hits the ground, followed by Alan’s lifeless body.