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His friends turned their glares from Zarina to Will then.

“Zarina. Enough,” Sammy warned, but she ignored him and continued.

“She wouldn’t fuck you back in high school and she wouldn’t fuck you now. You know why? Because she knows that The EA—stupid fucking name by the way—isnothing.”

“I didn’t?—”

Zarina put up a hand to silence him.

“So don’t fucking compare your little play-time gang to my family ever again. Don’t talk about power like you’ve ever had a shred of it. Because if I wanted to fuck someone with power,Willie, I’d ask for your dad’s number.”

“Oh damn.” Rome whispered to herself.

Then Willie lifted his hand and backhanded Zarina. Hard enough that her head snapped to the side from the force, but not enough to knock her down. She drew a hand up to her lip, taking a few breaths as she pulled herself together easily.

But I, however, was no longer composed.

I was bucking against the hold, pressing with all my might against the tape that kept me on the seat, all so I could rip his fucking throat out.

Zarina chuckled though, rolling her head from side to side before swiping a thumb across her bottom lip, fixing her red lipstick. “Big man. So powerful.”

So fucking savage.

So fucking gorgeous.

Toni started to stir then, blinking and squinting under the heavy rays of fluorescent lighting. His eyes seemed to search for his wife first. Rome offered him a relieved smile before turning her attention back to the centre of the room, and Toni’s eyes followed.

“Zar?” Toni continued to blink hard, like he was still coming to.

“Now,” Zarina clapped her hands together, spinning around to face the row of chairs that contained me and her family.

She found a free chair, pulling it in line with Rome and sitting down, crossing one leg over the other and letting the split in her dress ride up to the crease between her thigh and her torso.

If I made it out alive, I wanted to lick that spot.

I didn’t miss how every other man eyed the spot of flesh too, but Zarina didn’t shy away from the dozen eyes on her. Instead, she reached her arms up high, arching her back in a stretch that pushed her breasts up in a heaving motion, before swinging them down again.

“Are you going to let my family go, or am I going to watch the fucking life drain from your eyes?” she shimmied like she was excited by the prospect.

Who was this woman?

And why wasn’t I inside of her right fucking now?

God, I focused on the guns pointed at us instead of the way my cock pressed uncomfortably against my jeans.

“No one needs to die,” Theo rolled his eyes. “That was never our plan. You see—” he got that glimmer in his eye, excited to explain his carefully thought-out plan, but Zarina wouldn’t allow him that joy.

She gave him a dismissive wave of her hand.

“Yeah, yeah. You were just going to hold them here, lock them in somehow and call the cops, framing them for what I assume is weapons and drugs in those crates.” She pointed to the boxes in the corner of the room with an unimpressed blankness on her face.

“Kinda hard to pin a crime on an unconscious guy though, right?” she gestured to Toni, who was still looking a little confused and probably very concussed. “I assume you were just waiting for him to wake up?”

“You little brat,” Willie snapped, snatching a gun from one of his men and pointing it towards her.

Zarina just rolled her eyes.

“We all know you’re here just because you’ve been riding Redliner dick,” he pointed the gun at me briefly, before turning back towards Zar.