Page 181 of Devious Knight

“Give me Isabelle,” I speak up louder, cutting to the chase.

“Not until you give us what we want first. My money is tied up in the funds you stole from Nikoli.”

More revelations. If anyone had told me this shit would happen weeks ago I wouldn’t have believed them. I would have thought someone was selling me a cock and bull story to screw with me.

“I want to see her safe first before I do anything.”

Parker grins back at me. “I never thought I could use a girl against you. But you practically wore your heart on your sleeve with this girl, making it easy for me to see your weakness.”

“Shut the fuck up and do what I said. Get her the fuck away from that guy or I’m not doing shit.” I have a plan of sorts. If Isabelle isn’t near them then she stands less risk of getting hurt if bullets fly.

Parker nods at the guard and he releases Isabelle. But he only ushers her a few paces away from them, then returns to stand next to Parker.

“Come forward boy, we don’t have all night,” Nikoli barks.

I cut him a hard stare and move forward.

He walks over to a wooden crate in the corner, sets the laptop on it, and flicks it open.

I walk up to it and crouch to type in the bank’s website.

I click a few buttons and just as the site is loading the guards to my left drop to the ground like ragdolls. The instant I see the bullet holes in their heads I know backup is here. Only the Knights can shoot with such precision and uniformity.

I waste no time.

We can only have that element of surprise once. There are still at least twenty-five guards left, along with Nikoli and Parker, who now have their guns out.

As all hell breaks loose I run to Isabelle, grab the gun from the guard that just went down in front of her and cover her while I shoot.

I don’t make the mistake I did before by leaving her. I stay with her and watch until the Knights rush out from the woods in full force and continue the battle.

We vastly outnumber the men from the Malina at sixteen to seven.

Tobias pushes forward. He’s the only Knight who isn’t masked up and wearing uniform.

He shoots two of the guards as they rush him and I shoot two more.

Three of them are left now—Parker, Nikoli, and the guard who was originally holding Isabelle.

The Knights surround them and it’s only then that I step away from Isabelle and shoot the last guard.

“Drop your weapons right the fuck now,” Tobias yells at Parker and Nikoli.

They hesitate like I thought they would but then they drop their guns.

Tobias looks across at me. “Over to you.”

The Knight closest to me takes off his mask and I see it’s Dmitri. When I glance at Isabelle, Dmitri knows what to do. He also knows what I’m going to do.

I don’t want her to see me kill like this. I’ve been shooting and killing all night but that was in a kill or be killed situation. This will be an execution for vengeance.

Dmitri moves forward and scoops Isabelle up, then he takes her away.

Her eyes cling to mine the whole time until he disappears in the thicket of trees with her.

The remaining Knights remove their masks. Thorne, Logan and Alek stand together, but I’m looking at Thorne.

He nods at me and I remember his words; sometimes you can’t always rely on your fists.

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