Page 99 of Sinner's Salvation

More people tried to run, and some did get away, but not everyone. A body flew through the air on the left and knocked some people down. Then another body did the same on the right.

“What the fuck?” one agent said.

An agent grabbed Anna’s wrist from behind her and snapped a pair of handcuffs to it. She let him do the same to her other wrist. She didn’t bother to resist. She was trying to get a good view of the situation, but she still couldn’t quite see through the roiling crowd of people.

The agent grabbed her around her biceps and tried to move her, pull her away.

She wasn’t going anywhere.

He stumbled back, then tried again. “You need to come with me,” he said, through bared teeth.

Maniacal laughter rose up to circle ceiling high above them, hyena-like and deranged.

Another body was launched into the air, this one flying right at her and the idiot agent who thought he’d arrested her. The arms and legs flailed, telling her that the person being used as a cannon ball was dead.

She tore her arm out of the agent’s grip, broke the chain on the handcuffs, and half dragged, half shoved the agent out of the way. He landed on his back, but quickly rolled to his feet.

The body slammed into the concrete right where they had been standing. The man’s head had been nearly twisted off.

Two men strolled toward her, still laughing.

The Italians. Enzo and Luca.

Shit.

“What the fuck?” the agent said, again.

“We don’t have much time,” she said to him in a calm tone. “They aren’t here for you or any of the public, they’re here for me.” And probably Brian.

“Anna,” Enzo called out to her. “Come and play with us. We’ve been waiting for you.” He reached over his head and pulled out a short sword from what she could only assume was a sheath strapped to his back.

“Get yourselves and anyone else you can out of here,” she said to the agent, meeting his gaze for no more than a moment. She couldn’t afford to take her eyes off the two lunatics for longer than that. “I will delay them for as long as I can.”

Luca also pulled out a sword, then waved it around with a gleeful smile on his face.

They didn’t want to play. They planned on cutting her to pieces.

“I don’t suppose you have a knife I could borrow, do you?” she asked the agent.

“We’ve got guns,” the agent said, sounding indignant and confused at the same time.

She sighed. How to explain this quickly?

A small group of people tried to avoid the Italians so they could get past them and out of the station, but Enzo grabbed one man and hauled him up against his body. He tore open the man’s throat and began gulping down blood.

Oh, how nice. He was showing the entire world what a big bad threat he was.

And a messy eater.

The Homeland Security agents began firing their weapons at the Italians, even the agent next to her got off several shots. But Enzo and Luca weaved and dodged all the bullets.

Their performance made the Homeland Security agents gasp, step back, and look at each other with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

“Where are your boy toys?” Luca asked. “We didn’t get a chance to get properly acquainted with them.”

Anna didn’t dare look for Evan and Brian. She hoped her merry band of ladies had gotten them both away from here.

“Is he a new addition to your stable?” Enzo asked, nodding at the agent she’d pushed out of the way, licking his lips. “He looks tasty.”

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