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“Do you have a way to get to the hospital?”

I shook my head.

“You can ride up front.”

“I can’t be with her?”

“It won’t be long,” he said.

As soon as the doors opened, they were out. I followed, but my steps faltered, and I watched from a distance as they rolled her into the ambulance.

Something deep inside told me I’d never see her alive again.

Zahariev

“I heard you touched my girl,” I said.

She wasn’t mine. She wasn’t anyone’s.

But I was the dealer of her justice. Her vengeance was mine.

“I didn’t know she was yours, man.” His voice quivered. “I didn’t mean anything by it!”

This one was called Christian. Christian Masters.

He was number three.

The fourth would be here soon.

“Are you saying you had no intention of assaulting her?”

“Assault? Is that what she said? I barely touched her! Dude, you have to believe me.”

“I believe you,” I said.

His shoulders relaxed. I let him feel that relief before I punched him in the face.

My knuckles connected with his jaw, and he went slack.

As I pulled back, I heard Cassius over my shoulder.

“Your girlis calling.”

I cast him a cold look. “Do you want to join him?” I asked, snatching my phone away.

The fight left me when I answered.

“Zahariev,” Lilith said, my name leaving her mouth on a sob. “It’s Esther. I don’t… Where is Gabriel?”

My throat felt tight. “Where are you?”

“In an ambulance on the way to the hospital. Zahariev,” she said, and a horrible sound came from somewhere deep in her throat. “I don’t know if she’ll make it.”

Chapter Ten

A team of doctors and nurses was waiting when we arrived at the hospital. Before I even climbed out of the ambulance, they were wheeling Esther through the sliding doors and rushing her down the hall. I followed along, but no one really noticed me until I tried to enter her room.

“You can’t be in here,” said a nurse in blue scrubs.

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