Page 127 of Taunt Me (Dark Odyssey 2)

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Charlotte

“I’m so sorry.Gabe I’m so sorry,” I cry. I don’t know if I’ll be able to stop crying.

I’m so glad he’s here, that he found me and I’m with him and he knows about the baby. I’m so glad but guilt is sweeping through me like a raging storm for the shit I’ve landed us in.

I step back and reach up to cup his face. “I choose you, Gabriel. I choose you and all I want is to be with you. that was all I ever wanted for the last ten years. Tobias got to me at the event last night and threatened to kill you and my family if I didn’t come to him today. I thought I was protecting you. I love you so much and I’m sorry I screwed up.”

He holds me and places a kiss on my forehead. “Goddess, I love you too. I get it and it’s not something to apologize for.” The love in his eyes fills me with hope, but then his face takes on a serious edge, hardening with it. “Baby, we have to get out of here. There’s a bomb.”

Fuck… Tobias really is fucked up.

“A bomb?” I gasp.

“Yeah. I don’t know where it is but was meant for me. It’s set to blow in twenty minutes. I came this way and I’m guessing I wasn’t supposed to find you. How did you get in here?”

“He brought me here unconscious, but I saw you through the glass window earlier.” I point to it and he sees the outside area with the rocky path.

“You saw me?”

“Yes, just there. It’s one of those one way windows where you can’t see in, but we can see out.”

“That’s near the entrance to the mine,” he tells me.

Mine… so that’s where we are. A mine.

We both look out to the rocky path on the other side of the glass as a group of men come into view.

Shit, this isn’t good. It gets worse when they start firing at the window and it smashes.

“Change of plan. We can’t go that way.” Gabe takes my hand and we start running.

I scream when we get to the bodies again. The sight is so gruesome.

Gabe throws me over his shoulder cave man style and pounds forwards so that within seconds we’ve gone past the whole area.

It’s a small triumph, but nothing to celebrate because there’s a host of men coming for us.

I hear them now and then I see them .

Gabe sets me down and whirls around to start shooting.

“Go on ahead of me baby!” he orders.

“No, I won’t leave you.”

“Goooo! Charlotte go,” he cries and I run.

I run and hear him shooting. When I glance back I see him running behind me and he catches up. We turn down a section that leads out to the mine shaft. It’s all old again and we take a dirt path with a rail track. There’s a lot of broken rails and it’s dark again. We keep running and the men don’t stop. They’re behind us.

Gabe holds my hand and we verge on to another rocky path. Up ahead there’s a rusty metal door.

We go through it and Gabe closes it. he pulls down the lever bar that secures it .

We’re in a wide spaced area that looks like a working mine. There are carts that still have coal and rocks, what I see too on a table in the center is most assuredly a bomb.

Jesus. I’m… looking at a bomb. An actual bomb.

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