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“You ruined them!” I stabbed my finger at the truck, desperate to stop this. “You think Hale’s men are going to pay millions for a woman with her goddamn mind broken?”

Coulter just looked my way. “Hale and his pathetic list of buddies? You think too small, Principal.” He muttered and gave a nod to his man. “That won’t be an issue at all.”

That won’t be an issue?

“Why?” I jerked my gaze to the truck. Thehissof the airbrakes sounded before it pulled away. That icy chill at the back of my neck screamed like a banshee.

Deep down, some part of me knew this was all wrong.

Every.

Goddamn.

Second.

Of.

It.

Bang!

I jerked as a blast came from behind me.

Bang!

Bang!

Walker roared, charging forward as anotherboomsounded and one of our guards dropped to the concrete floor in front of me. He slammed into Coulter’s man, grabbed his hand, and drove his weapon upwards.

Kane lunged with a roar, slamming into the guard standing behind Thomas…pointing a gun at his head.

The ratchet of a shotgun being loaded sounded as acrackcame. The spray of blood was instant, splattering my face as I spun to stare down the barrel of a gun. From the corner of my eye, one more guard dropped at my feet.

“On your knees,” Coulter demanded, meeting my stare.

I shook my head. That screaming in my head was desperate for me to fight and kill…and save her.

Coulter lifted his hand and his man moved in to press the muzzle of his gun at Thomas’s head. “Now.”

There was nothing I could do.

No words to say.

No begging to be had.

Still, I had to know. “They aren’t going to Hale, are they?”

That same ugly fucking smirk found me now. “Now he’s starting to catch on.”

No Hale.

No black site.

No Mel.

I closed my eyes as the loading dock swayed around me.

No Mel and now, no Helene.