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A crack unlike the ones from the fire made him pause his foot in midair.

Nora lifted her head, gorgeous hope on her face.

But it wasn’t for him.

One of the big Russian motherfuckers was standing right in front of her. It was obvious that Nora couldn’t see the man properly with the fire behind him.

“Drake?”

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

Draco tightened his grip on his knife and discreetly rounded the inside of the clearing, his back flush to the forest line. Going from tree to tree, he used their size to mask his while he glared at the enemy.

It physically pained him more than any other present injury to move so slowly while Nora was in danger, but this had to be done right. He couldn’t get distracted.

Draco never made a sound. Not even when the man snatched Nora up by her arm, likely jerking it out of its socket. Not even when she cried out Draco’s name for help. Not even when the bastard held her back to his front, clamping his hand over half her face and laughing. His mouth was at her ear, the wayhehad traumatized her all those years ago, the way shehated.

She screamed, fighting, kicking, scratching, her hands reaching out to something, anything.

And still.

Draco.

Never.

Made.

A.

Sound.

Until his prey did.

“You are a little fighter, hm? I have a friend who likes this. I will take you to him. First… you have something of mine—”

“No.” He yanked the enemy’s hair and kneed him in the back. Using the angle to his advantage, Draco dug the knife into the man’s jugular, carving the blade across his prey’s neck before shoving the body to the ground.

“You had something ofmine.”

CHAPTERFORTY

The gurgling noise behind her had Nora scrambling backward, away from the dying man. She turned on her knees to see Drake, the fire from the woods flickered across his skin where blood wasn’t splattered all over it.

His? Someone else’s?

She caught Drake’s dark eyes, full of relief, before looking back to the man bleeding out on the ground.

The man who had almost kidnapped her.

But he hadn’t had the chance, because…

“You rescued me.”

Her eyes snapped back to Drake, taking in his swaying body.

“Always.”

His lips lifted at the corner right before his eyes rolled back into his head and he collapsed to the ground.