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The entire time she touched me, I’d been biting my tongue and now I was sure it was bleeding.
“It could be a fracture.” She said once I sat back down, and the guys turned around again with my permission. “You have to go to a hospital to get checked out more.” She stared at my face for a minute, her features softening. “Are your parents here? I think it would be better for you to have an adult present who-”
“I’m her cousin.” Kiril stepped forward, lying through his teeth flawlessly. “Her parents are dead, so I can sign anything or do whatever you need. But she is eighteen.”
I didn’t know if it was his looks or the way I clearly despised him, but the paramedic didn’t swallow his shit for a second and concentrated only on me.
“What’s your name, sweetheart?” She asked gently as she handed me a bottle of water from inside the ambulance.
“Yeva.” I sipped the drink eagerly. “Yeva Montana.”
She blanched at that, and I fucking laughed. I knew it was rude. Maybe a little childish of me. But seriously? A singlesurname and she was panicking like I had a knife against her throat?
She would never have survived real pain and danger. She was weak to fear words and meaningless letters piled together.
“And you’re okay with yourcousincoming with us and helping you to the hospital?” To be fair to her, she continued her questioning, even going so far as to make sure I wasn’t in danger or in need of help.
She didn’t know the only danger here was me stealing a scalpel or something from inside the ambulance and using it to carve three human pumpkins.
“Yes, but I don’t need it.” I got to my feet, ignoring the pain flaring in my hip. “Give me painkillers and I sort things out later for myself. Trust me, I am okay – this is nothing.”
I wasn’t being brave. I’d just had worse. Far worse.
This felt like nothing compared to that.
With only a little more protest that I secretly appreciated, she handed me some painkillers, another bottle of water to replace the one I’d quickly finished, and some wet wipes before she headed off to do her job elsewhere.
Shaking off the throbbing in my head and hip, I swallowed the drugs and then turned to the three monsters still crowding me in the hubbub.
“Why the fuck are you even here?”I dragged some wipes over my face, no doubt smearing my eyeliner in my bid to get rid of the ash that made my skin feel gross.
“We’re Red Diamonds members now.” Daniil slid his leather jacket off, wrapping it around my shoulders before I could move out of the way. “You would be dead in a fire without us; say thank you and we can move on to other things.”
“I would rather be dead than indebted to you.” I didn’t take his jacket off, but only because I felt a little better with it hiding my arms away.
The more layers I wore when on edge, the better I felt. Even if those layers came from a rodent.
He didn’t miss a beat as he crossed his tattooed arms over his chest, jostling his silver chain. “Want me to hand you my gun, then? You can kill yourself now and feel better.”
I scoffed as I locked eyes with Lincoln across the driveway and saw him stride my way. “If you give me a gun, I will put a bullet in you.” I told Daniil with a bright grin.
“I’d let you put anything in me if you asked nice enough.” He winked and – all thanks to the pain I was in and the adrenaline shooting through my veins – I snorted a tiny laugh before I could school my features.
Lincoln stopped before us, ignoring the guys as he spoke to me and thankfully gave me an escape from having to crush Daniil’s ego just because he’d made me laugh.
“You okay, kid?” Lincoln stopped a decent enough distance away and didn’t try to touch me. That was why I liked him the most out of Sapphire’s men. He understood how to be trained in civility.
I nodded. “Are your friends and people good?”
“Mostly. Logan’s legs are broken and we’re all a little burned. But we have shit we need to do, so I can wait to see a doctor.” He pulled a gun from the back of his black trousers, offering me the handle. “Can you keep things in control for a bit? You’re the only Montana here right now, and I need to go and chase another one.”
“You trust me to be boss for a while?” My brows rose, a bright spark of excitement thrumming through my veins.
“Sapphire would.” He replied. “So can you handle clean up and making sure things go smoothly until Beau arrives?”
I took the gun from his hand and that was all the answer he needed, before he yanked Kody away from Rika – who, true to form, was flirting with the female paramedic that had helpedme – and found the nearest car to borrow. As the two men sped away, off doing whatever other nonsense the night had thrown our way, I turned back to the three banes of my existence, petty power fuelling me.
“It’s your lucky night, boys.” I grinned as I made a list of my demands, dishing out the best ones for the three of them. “I’m going to be talking to you, after all.”
