Page 1 of He Is Ours (Lovers in Crossfire #2)

Chapter one

Rachel

I

am

in

this

banquet hall; don’t get me wrong, it’s beautiful.

The decorations are incredible, but looking around at all these entitled rich fucks who want to buy humans, these people make me sick.

If I could kill them all, I would. Alex and I stay in the shadows until it's time for action.

Alex told us generally what was going to happen.

Unfortunately, our plan won't go into action until Olivia has been completely exposed. Alex says he knows his grandfather can’t resist a ridiculously high bid, so when the bidding starts, he will let it play out a little bit, and then he will make a ridiculous offer to win Olivia

I see my girl sitting in a chair near the stage, looking as if scanning the area thoroughly.

She looks absolutely stunning tonight. Her auburn hair is curled and falling down her back.

She is wearing an emerald dress that complements her pale skin to perfection.

Her makeup is subtle but makes her blue/green eyes pop, and her lips look kissable, just as I like them.

But in reality, Olivia is the only girl I have wanted.

Before her, I had never been attracted to a woman at all.

But something about Olivia has captured me like a moth to a flame.

I didn’t realize how quickly I could care for someone either, but all it took was one night with her, followed by losing her, to know that I wanted to try my hardest to make this work.

I want her and Alex. I don’t understand it, but it’s what I feel.

After everything with Andrew, you don't want to pass up perfection when you see it in the flesh.

“Good evening, everyone.” An older man who resembles an older version of Alex says this into a microphone on the stage, grabbing everyone's attention.

”Tonight is a very special night, and I have a surprise in store for you,” he says.

The chatter starts to rumble through the crowd.

“What surprise?” A man next to me says.

“I wonder what it could be?” Another lady whispers.

I look at Alex and cock a brow, but he shrugs his shoulders. I would have thought he would have known.

We are almost certain that Olivia will be up for auction tonight. The intel we received from Oliver’s team, combined with what Alex could gather from his grandfather’s team, led us to this assumption.

“Usually, my annual auctions are a little more of the mixed variety, if you know what I mean.” Alex’s grandfather says.

The crowd around us gives a small chuckle at his words, and I roll my eyes.

Mixed variety… Fucking gross. This man gives me all the creeps.

I feel like I need to take a shower just after being around these fuckers.

Alex puts his hand on my lower back to calm me down. Given everything we had learned, he knows how worked up I am right now.

“But this year, not only will I have the usual product up for auction, but I also have a beautiful woman who is quite unique up for auction tonight as well.” My fucking woman

, I wanted to yell at him. I wanted to go up knives swinging and demand that he hand her over. How dare he take what is mine!

But I have to keep my cool. We have a plan; if I let my hot-headedness get the best of me, I will ruin it all and possibly get us killed in the process.

I see four men in suits walk up behind Olivia, who is seated in her chair. One grabs her, pulls her up, and wraps his arms around her. She starts to kick and scream, and it breaks my heart.

“Tony, Stop! Get your hands off of me!” I hear her yell. The sound of fear in her voice causes my heart to strain and my blood to boil. She sounds so hopeless in that yell.

Tony.

Noted.

Tony, you are mine! You will be my kill tonight, mark my fucking words!

I grab Alex’s arm and pull him down to me while he watches Olivia in horror.

“I want that Tony fucker! You can kill anyone else, but Tony is mine.” I am stern, with no room for argument. The fire in my blood is screaming for revenge.

“Ok, babe. He is yours. But we have to wait until it’s time.” I nod at him. I know I have to wait, but I don’t have to like it.

“She is a feisty one.” The dark-haired man next to me says. My hands ball into fists, so tight that my nails are cutting into my skin. I want to punch him in the face!

“I wouldn’t mind a piece of that.” The lady in the blue dress with her brown hair pinned up on the top of her head, holding onto a blonde-haired man’s arm, says.

“I wish Lopez always brought these types of women instead of the ugly ones and kids; I would buy more often, " a short, bald man in front of us says.

All these comments make me murderous. As if I weren't barely holding on already, I would be now. These fuckers are nasty!

Tony gets Olivia on stage, and you can see the pure terror on her face. Alex’s grandfather leans down and talks to Olivia, and so does that fucker Tony. After whatever they say, Olivia becomes even paler in the face.

“Let's get this show on the road, shall we?” Booms through the speakers around the room, and you can feel the excitement buzzing through the room. Olivia looks at Grandpappy like he has lost his damn mind. Because obviously, he has!

I see Olivia moving up on stage some more, wiggling like she is trying to get out of Tony’s grip, and then another big man in a tux, just like the other security personnel—if you can even call them that—grabs Olivia’s wrist to put handcuffs on her.

He bends down and whispers something into her ear.

She turns to look at him and then at Tony, who hasn't stopped glaring at her.

They get Olivia to the center of the stage, the light shining directly on her. Even as terrified as I know she is, she still looks absolutely beautiful up there. I fucking hate that the circumstances are shitty because I just want to devour her with my eyes!

“Well, Ladies and Gentlemen. That was a bit dramatic. I apologize for that. This here is Olivia. Not only can you tell that she is a fiery redhead, but she is also a dear Irish Mafia Princess. Her family is the O’Connor family in New York; they hold the biggest gun trading on the East Coast.” Grandpappy says.

Wait a fucking minute! Mafia Princess? What the fuck am I missing?

“Did you know she was a part of the mafia?” I whisper to Alex. He slowly nods his head. The anger was rising in me. I turn to face him now. “You knew, and you didn’t tell me? What the fuck, Alex!” My voice raised just a smidge more, but not enough for anyone else to hear me.

“Rachel, stop. We can talk about this later.” His words are like nails on a chalkboard to me. Fucker telling me to stop.

“Don’t you fucking…” My anger outburst was cut off by fucking Grandpappy talking about my woman.

“She sits five feet five inches tall and is a solid one hundred and twenty pounds, not an ounce of fat on this woman, ladies and gentlemen. She works for the San Diego Police Department. So, as you can see, our little mafia princess is straddling both sides of the law. Imagine what else she could be straddling.” He says with a chuckle, and the whole room chuckles and murmurs their agreement to his stupid comment.

My molars are grinding in the back of my mouth, and I will be surprised if I don’t chip a tooth.

My fucking whole body is so taught, I am like a bow string ready to release this anger.

“I can’t wait until they strip her,” one of the people behind me says, and I am seeing black. I feel Alex’s hand wrap around my waist and tighten his grip just to keep me put. He can sense the rage within me.

I can’t ruin the plan.

I can’t ruin the plan.

I can’t ruin the plan.

I keep chanting in my head so I will hopefully calm down. Fun fact for the day—it’s not helping.

“Ok, now for the good parts.” Ugh, his voice buzzing in my ears, sharp and relentless, like a swarm of angry wasps.

Grandpappy grabs Olivia by the arm and spins her around, making her face Tony. I see her knee make contact with his balls. He didn't even fucking flinch. Does he even have balls?

Grandpappy grabs the bottom of Olivia’s dress and tries to pull it up, not bothering with the zipper in the back of the beautiful gown.

When it stops mid-thigh, you can see him lean towards Olivia’s ear and whisper something.

When Grandpappy stands back up, Tony reaches for his belt, grabs the knife that was holstered, and points it toward Olivia.

He grabs the top of her dress and starts to cut down the center between her breasts!

I swear to fucking god, he better not cut her perfect breasts, or I’m going to skin him alive!

I will make it the slowest and most painful death anyone has seen.

I see blood trickling down Olivia’s wrists, and she yells out, “No! Stop!” She starts to move so they can't cut the dress. Rage now takes over in Grandpappy and Tony’s eyes.

When they get a glimpse of what is going on, I see the cut from Olivia’s sternum to her stomach.

White, hot boiling rage runs through my veins.

They fucking cut her. He marked my beautiful woman’s body with a knife.

“Look what you did, you fucking stupid girl!” Grandpappy growls in her face and then slaps her across the face. Every time they hit her or mark her, that is another stab wound I will happily inflict on them, causing him the most pain but not enough to kill him quickly.

I look back up just in time to see my girl turn and spit in his face!

Blood and spit traced a slow, glistening path down his cheek.

He wipes the liquid off his face, and the smile on his face turns pure evil.

He grabs the two halves of her dress, rips it entirely in half, and throws it to the side.

Now, Olivia stands there in nothing but sparkly jewelry and black heels.

“Alright, ladies and gentlemen, the last of the viewing before we start the bidding.” It breaks my heart to look at Olivia nude in front of all of these people. I want to rip out everyone's eyeballs just for looking at her.

Tony pushes Olivia down so she bends at the waist and kicks her legs open so that everyone can have a perfect look at her pussy and ass. That beautiful body that belongs to me is on full display for the whole world to see.

Comments are coming from all around the room about her, and it takes every ounce of self-control I have to not freak the fuck out and make a blood bath of this ballroom.

“Look at that pussy. It looks tight as fuck.”

“She is a brat that I would like to get hold of.”

“I wonder what all she has done with her tight ass.”

Tony lifted her back up and turned her around to show everyone her front. You can see the long cut on her breasts from when she tried to fight Tony, and now that I have seen it with my own two eyes, I will skin Tony alive!

“She has some nice tits!” A blonde girl says in front.

“Can we start the bidding already?” The guy behind me says. He has had a comment for everything tonight. If I didn’t have my eyes set on killing Tony, that guy would be dead.

“Alright, ladies and gentlemen, we will start the bidding at thirty-five thousand dollars. Do I hear someone for thirty-five?”Grandpappy starts the bidding.

“Thirty-five,” a guy in the front says, raising his auction paddle with the number 165 on it.

“Forty,” I hear from a female behind me.

“Fifty,” I hear another female say further to the left of us.

The bids keep coming from every direction. The price is rising and rising. We are sitting at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

“Alex, Fucking do something!” I exclaim. I am starting to panic. The bids getting this high were not a part of the plan.

“One million dollars,” Alex yells over the crowd, holding up his auction paddle with the number 210 on it.

My jaw dropped. One million fucking dollars?

Does Alex even have that kind of money? I mean, his grandfather is the Drug Lord of the cartel, so I guess they do have money, but still, one million?

“SOLD! For One Million Dollars to the gentleman in the back!” Grandpappy yells into the microphone with too much excitement in his voice.

Tony starts to drag Olivia off the stage, and I start to freak out.

I grab Alex’s hand and start to walk toward the stage. “They can't take her, Alex. We need to get to her! What if they realize it's you and take her?” I am babbling all of my concerns out right now, and Alex is calm, cool, and collected.

“She comes with me!” Alex yells, and Tony stops dead in his tracks and turns with fire in his eyes.

When Olivia finally realizes it’s us running up to the stage, her eyes go big with hurt and longing, but then it turns straight to rage. I don't know why she is mad, but I can figure that out later.