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“I’ll let her go if you come out,” he said, tightening his hold on me.

“Last chance, asshole,” King growled.

“Say goodbye, King, I’m sure your whore is going to hell.” Kris laughed and the sound of a gunshot rang through the air.

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Boogie and I broke in through the back again. This time we were prepared with tactical gear, a few guns and knives. Skull gaiters covered the bottom half of our face to hide our identity just in case. Boogie insisted we bring a machine gun that he and Mars had outfitted to a truck gatling style, but I said hell no. We needed to stay under the radar and we weren’t supposed to kill any people, except Kris.

The Mayor gave us specific instructions to capture his crew, and if we had to, kill Kris. They strongly suggested we didn’t because we needed information about Nic, but I’m sure he had a second who could give us the same information.

It was too quiet as we moved through the building. We checked Doll’s room first, it was empty and when we looked at the girls’ rooms theirs were empty too.

Mars had eyes on the place, and it was open today. He spotted her working the Santa photoshop, but we had no idea what went on behind closed doors.

Boogie and I went looking through each room until we heard voices. There were several entrances into the large room that had all the girls and our doll who had just kicked Kris’ balls. When another man punched her, I didn’t care about thecarefully laid plan Boogie and I had made. My finger pulled the trigger, hitting the men closest to the girls she wanted to save.

The men started shooting blindly, almost hitting the girls. I took out a few more while Boogie was taking out the majority of them. The girls ran out of the room.

“Mars, the young women are heading out,” Boogie said, in between shots.

Mars was outside as back up with Roman, another guy we trusted.

“Gotcha,” Mars said.

Boogie was the better marksman until Kris dragged our Doll in front of him.

“Keep shooting and she dies!” Kris yelled, wrapping a forearm around her neck and putting the gun against her temple.

“Let her go,” I said, frustrated that I didn’t have a clear shot at him.

“I’ll let her go if you come out,” he said, looking around frantically.

“Last chance, asshole,” I growled.

“Say goodbye, King, I’m sure your whore is going to hell.” Kris laughed, and the sound of a gunshot rang through the air.

Kris and Ally flew back, the other men starting shooting again. Fucking Boogie had taken the shot. I slid into the room, firing at one guy using him as a shield as I shot at another. Kris and Ally were on the floor fighting for a knife. Boogie was on top of one man shooting him in the head before tackling the fucker who had punched her.

I shot one more guy before the last two ran away.

“We have two runners,” I said into the mic, running to our Doll.

“We’ll look out for them,” Mars said quickly.

I had my gun out ready to shoot, but they were too close together. Boogie had the man who punched her in a chokehold, and I walked up to them to kill him with my bare hands until she stabbed him with the knife. He looked at her in shock.

“I hope you rot in hell, fucker,” she said, pulling the knife out before stabbing him again and again.

We watched her take out her frustration, growling and yelling until she was all cried out, throwing the knife and climbing off of him. Boogie caught her when her legs gave out.

“He fucking killed her,” she cried.

I looked over to the young woman who was on the floor. If I remembered correctly, she was the youngest of them at twelve.

“Mars, did you find the girls and the runners?” I talked into the mic looking around at all the men down.

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