Amara’s POV
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After banging on the bathroom door for what felt like fifteen minutes. I hear the lock click and the door opens. I stare angrily at Rex, ” Where is he!” I snap at him.
Rex just smiles at me calmly, ” He already left to go do some business. He will be back soon.”
” He could have just told me what he was going to do.” Stepping out of the bathroom I look around to see gaurds are still posted everywhere.
Doesn’t look like he took any men with him. So, what was so important that he couldn’t tell me.
” He doesn’t want you getting hurt. Now come to the living room. I already setup SpongeBob for the little one. There are snacks and drinks too.” Rex tells me as he heads towards the living room.
” Doesn’t want me getting hurt me ass.” I mumble mainly to myself as I follow Rex.
Once I enter the living room. I see Sadie sitting in a little Paw Patrol sofa chair with Mary sitting on the couch behind her. ” When did she get that?” I asked Rex.
” I ordered it for her a few days ago. It was finally delivered today. I was looking for you and Dimitri to show you both, but Dimitri had locked you in the bathroom.” Rex says taking a seat in his recliner.
I guess that explains why I heard Sadie let out a little squeal. While I was locked in the bathroom.
Looking at Sadie who was happily sitting in her chair with a sippy cup in hand with eyes glued to the tv.
I already know she isn’t going to want to sit in mommies lap anymore. Not when grandpa Rex got her a sofa chair of her favorite character Chase from Paw Patrol.
Walking over to the couch I sit next to Mary. ” You okay? You look like you been crying.” I asked her softly.
I watch Mary open her mouth to speak. Only for a bunch of armed guards to storm into the living room with their guns drawn.
Rex stands up immediately, ” What the hell are you guys doing! Put your guns away and get out before I shoot you!” He snaps at them.
Hearing a laugh I watch as Daniel comes into view. ” These men don’t work for you. They work for me and only me.” Daniel says with a cold smirk.
I quickly pick Sadie and hold her to my chest. She wiggles in my arms and hold her little arms out to her sofa chair.
” Aw, she is just adorable. Looks like she is wanting her new chair she got today.” Daniel tells me with a grin.
How did he know it came today? Was he waiting for Dimitri to leave before he came inside?
” How long were you watching before you decided to barge in with your goons?” I question him.
” I been here for quite awhile actually. I had one of my men tell Dimitri my location on purpose. I knew he would take the bait and leave to go kill me. Leaving you and Sadie unprotected.” He says in a cocky tone.
” She isn’t unprotected. She has me.” Mary says standing up next to me.
” Mary, these guys have guns. What can you possibly do?” I whisper to her confused.
” Right, you are the chick my men have updated me about. The women that killed a bunch of men last night all by herself with just a handful of knives.” Daniel says flatly as he looks at the time on his watch.
Killed?!
Mary killed a bunch of men last night! When she was watching Sadie and while I was in the hospital!
That can’t be true…
Mary is kind and sweet. She loves helping people and working as a nurse. She doesn’t have a evil bone in her body.
I watch as Mary grabs a handful of pens that where sitting on the table next to her. She throws a the pens hitting six of the men right in the head causing them to fall to the floor with a thud. Which causes a few of them to shoot in our direction.
I turn around with my back to them, as I use my body to shield Sadie from the gunshots.
” Knock it off you morons before you hit Amara and Sadie!” I hear Daniel shout at his men.
Once the gunshots stop I check Sadie for injuries and sigh in relief. When I see that she is okay just extremely upset. Her little face was bright red with tears streaming down her little face.
It was breaking my heart to see her upset.
Looking at Mary I notice she is holding her right arm. I guess one of the bullets hit her, but from the looks of the back wall. She should have been shot several times. That is until I see the coffee table and it dawns on me. She used the coffee table as a shield.
I am happy Mary is not dead, but I need to somehow get Sadie to safety. I don’t care what happens to me. I just want my daughter to be safe. ” Sweetie, listen to me.” I whisper to her. I watch her bright tear filled eyes stare into mine.
” When I put you down. I need you to find somewhere to hide. Okay?” I whisper to her softy.
I watch her sniffle and give me a little nod as she continues to cry in my arms.
Feeling a strong hand grab ahold of my upper arm. I turn my head to see it is Daniel. ” You are coming with me.” He says with a smirk.
” The hell she is!” Mary says stepping forward only to get hit in the back of the head with a metal rod.
She falls face down into the floor with a thud with blood starting to pool beside her head.
The man that hit her was huge and seemed like a giant. He had huge muscles and a scar over his right cheek with a brown stubby beard. I had ever seen him around before, so he must be someone Daniel brought with him.
” Good job, Joe. Taking her out should by us time to get Amara and Sadie out of here.” Daniel says as he starts dragging me out of the living room.
” Let her go!” Rex says as one of the others men punch him hard in the abdomen.
Rex hunches over in pain as he spits up saliva and breakfast all over the floor.
“Rex!” I gasp out as I try to go towards him. Only to feel Daniel grip on my arm tighten.
” Let’s go!” Daniel says irritatedly as he drags me out into the hallway.
” You can take me, but atleast let me leave my daughter here.” I tell him as Sadie cries in my ear.
” No, she is coming with us. After all we can’t be a family without her.” Reaching the front door Daniel comes to a stop when he hears a commotion coming from behind us.
” Now what the hell is it!” Daniel releases me and has one of his men guard me. As he goes back in the direction of the living room.
” Sweetie, I am putting you down now. I want you to crawl as fast as you can into a hiding spot and stay quiet okay.” I whisper to her.
I gently set her down and punch the guard in the throat. ” Go Sadie!” I shout to her and watch as she quickly crawls away from me and goes somewhere around the corner.
I don’t know what Daniel means by us being a family, but Sadie is definitely not going to be a part of it and either am I.
As I start to make a run for it to go hide somewhere. My path gets blocked by a huge stomach infront of my face. I back up and look up to see it is the guy Daniel had called Joe.
I flinch as Joe picks my up and throws me over his shoulder. I kick my feet and try to push off of him. Joe just chuckles as Daniel walks up to us covered in blood. ” Where is the baby?” He asked me and Joe.
” I don’t know boss. When I got here this moron was gasping for air with his hands on his throat and she was about to run away. There wasn’t a baby insight.” Joe tells him.
” Where is she Amara!” Daniel snaps at me.
” I am not telling you where she is!” I snap back at him.
Not that I would know anyway. I didn’t exactly see where she went. Which is probably for the best.
I watch as he stares at me intensity before telling Joe to take me to his SUV. As Joe is carrying me to the vehicle. I hear Daniel shout at all the guards to find Sadie.
I can only hope Sadie has found a good hiding spot and stay quiet just like Dimitri had been telling her for the last few weeks.
After thirty minutes I watch Daniel come out of the house empty handed with Sadie nowhere in sight. I let out a sigh of relief, ” Good job baby girl.” I whisper to myself as Daniel gets in and sits next to me. While Joe gets out and sits in the passenger side seat.
” I can always come back to get her. As for now you will just have to do.” Daniel shuts the vehicle door and signals the driver to go.
” Where are we going? And what do you want?”
” We are going to a new hideout to wait for everything at the church to be ready.” Daniel says with a smile.
” Why are we going to church?”
“Because we are getting married.” Daniel says as he pulls me towards him. ” You will be my wife.”
So, that is what he meant about being a family. He has a rude awaking coming very soon, because they second I find something to hit him with. I am beating the crap out of him with it.
I pull my arm out of his hold and move back over to the vehicle door on my right side. ” I am not marrying you. You are out of your mind.”
Daniel chuckles, ” I have been waiting for this opportunity for a long time Amara. Now that I got Dimitri out of the way. You and Sadie are all mine.”
” What do you mean now that Dimitri is out of the way?” I question him.
Did he actually manage to kill Dimitri?
” If Nate and James followed my plan. Dimitri should have been blown to smithereens, but that’s only if the plan went the right way.”
” So, you don’t actually know if he is dead or not. You are just assuming that you won. Not to mention you are in for a world of hurt. If he survives whatever bomb you have set up.”
” It’s not a bomb. It more like old fashion gasoline with the gas stove turned on high. It works like a charm and gives a big bang.”
” Dimitri would never go into a house that is clearly a setup. He isn’t that dumb.” I says confidently.
Hearing Daniel phone vibrate I watch as he pulls his phone out of his jacket pocket. A cold smile spreads across his face.
” looks like he isn’t as smart as you hoped.” Daniel says showing me a picture of Dimitri face down in the dirt with burned flesh on his back and right arm.
He can’t be dead.
Why would he go into a house knowing it was probably a trap!