Chapter 37 : You're Mine

Gunfire blazed, booming through the mist of debris and dust and sharp light that was suddenly turning the air into a maelstrom. Raven let herself go limp, crumpling completely to the floor, trying not to hear the dense punch of bullet impacting wood and concrete and flesh. Who was firing? Garth’s men hadn’t even had time to draw their weapons.

Garth himself scrambled on hands and knees around behind her. She heard the sharp sounds of a gun mechanism working, readying.

“Clear!” shouted a voice—a woman’s voice. The woman who’d escorted her out of the Rekya Hotel bar. “There’s only him left, sir. As requested.”

“Thank you, Veronica. Sterling work, as usual.”

That voice.

Kade, Raven thought dully through the vortex of terror and rage and pain whirling through her head. Kade had come for her.

But she’d never heard his voice so utterly, icily venomous. So full of brutality.

She felt Garth Lu’s breath get very shaky behind her.

“Don’t come any closer!” he roared, but his voice