Total pages in book: 177
Estimated words: 176345 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 882(@200wpm)___ 705(@250wpm)___ 588(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 176345 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 882(@200wpm)___ 705(@250wpm)___ 588(@300wpm)
“Who the fuck are you?” one of them roars at Nathan.
Beyond the door, I spot a cage in the back, and in it is a figure hidden in the dark, whimpering quietly. Rory.
“I’m coming for you, Ro!” Nathan yells at her.
Suddenly, one of the guards whisks out a gun.
“Nathan, duck!” I yell.
BANG!
LANA
The bullet ricochets off the wall behind us.
Kai fires his gun too as bullets fly through the room.
BANG! BANG!
“You really like making a grand entry, don’t you?” Blaine says, and he runs toward the fighting too.
Nathan’s exchanging fists with a guard who’s got him cornered, and another guard comes at him from behind. I fling my knives at the guard rushing toward Nathan and save him from a chokehold.
He briefly glances at me, shouting, “Thanks!”
Another guard runs out of the room and into the hallway, and I fling my last knife straight at his throat. Blood pours out as his hand wrings around his neck in an attempt to pull it out while he sinks to the floor.
The other doors open too, and two more Bonesmen step out to see what’s happening. “Motherf—”
Blaine pulls out an actual goddamn sword from his umbrella and shoves it into his belly.
“Don’t waste precious words,” he mumbles as the guard sinks to the floor.
“You gave me your gun and start fighting with a motherfucking sword instead?” Nathan growls from the other end of the hallway.
“It’s not a sword, it’s a katana,” Blaine argues. “But of course you wouldn’t know.”
“Jesus, can we not right now?” Kai growls at both of them.
Suddenly, one of those Bonesmen jumps me from behind, wrapping his arms around my neck.
BANG!
Kai fires his gun all the way from the other end of the hall, hitting the guy in the temple, and he sinks to the floor.
Right then, an alarm goes off, and we all exchange panicked glances.
“Fuck,” I mutter.
I run toward the room the boys are in while guards from all sides of the corridor pour in.
“Run, Lana!” Kai barks.
I glance over my shoulder, and a bunch more Bonesmen come in via the stair entrance. It’s like the whole club was infested with them.
We’re cornered.
“C’mon, c’mon, c’mon!” Nathan growls.
Right when Blaine enters, Nathan shuts the door while Kai pushes a chair underneath the door handle.
“Fuck, we barely made it.” Blaine takes a minute to breathe.
“Wish you fucking hadn’t,” Nathan mumbles under his breath.
Blaine side-eyes him as he wipes his katana on his pants. “I heard that.”
Nathan immediately runs over to Rory’s cage. “Ro, I’m here.” He unlocks it and pulls her out into his embrace. “Are you okay? Are you hurt? Did they touch you anywhere?”
She shakes her head.
“I’m just scared,” she says, crying her eyes out as she holds on to him for dear life.
“I’m here; you don’t have to be scared anymore,” Nathan says. “I’ll take care of you.”
“What happened to Uncle Milo? Those guys hurt him when I tried to run,” she says, shivering.
I approach her and pat her little hand. “He’s okay. He’s in the hospital, but he’ll be all right. Don’t you worry about him.”
“Are you here to save me?” she asks me.
I nod. “We’re not leaving here without you.”
Nathan holds her tight while he directs his attention on Blaine, who’s casually eating one of the apple slices the guards left in their hurry to attack.
“Jesus Christ, an umbrella, katana? Really?” Nathan growls at Blaine. “You brought some nunchucks too while you’re out here trying to cosplay as Jackie Chan? No wonder Milo left you.”
“Yet you know about the nunchucks,” Blaine muses. “Who do you think taught him?”
They go head-to-head, seemingly forgetting all about the reason we came here.
“Guys, we need to look for a way out,” I say.
“Stop fighting,” Kai barks at them both.
Banging on the doors makes me step back. “Guys, we gotta hurry.”
“Open this fucking door!”
“I’m scared,” Rory murmurs, hiding in Nathan’s neck.
I check the room, but there’s no other doors except the one we came through. “Fuck, we’re stuck.”
“There has to be another way out of here,” Nathan says.
Kai holds down the door, shoving another chair underneath. “This won’t hold for long.”
“We can just face them head-on if you like,” Blaine says, chomping on some more apple slices like he’s having the time of his life. “I mean, we were already charging into it without thinking twice. Might as well finish the job.”
“Of course you’d suggest that,” Nathan scoffs. “You forgot we’ve got a kid we’re trying to keep safe.”
“Who the fuck are you?” a voice yells from behind the door.
We all look at each other.
“I don’t want to die.” Rory hides her face in Nathan’s shirt, shaking terribly.
We can’t subject her to all this violence. She has to get out of here unharmed, but how?
“What do you want to do?” Blaine asks, clutching his katana. “I’m ready to plow through them if needed.”