Page 87 of Beautiful Chaos

As if summoned by my thoughts, the door crashes open and a blur that can only be Luca launches across the room and rips Andre away from me and throws him into a wall, holding him there by his throat.

Declan and Noah rush into the room behind him, running directly toward me. Noah reaches me first and drops to his knees at my side.

“Right on time.” I beam up at them.

“Baby girl, you are in so much trouble,” he growls. I lift my arms above my head and stretch, rubbing at my sensitive wrists.

Declan narrows his eyes. “You weren’t even tied up?”

I tilt my head. “I was, just not well.”

Ryder chuckles from the doorway and I smile at him, before doing a double take. They’re all soaked in blood. I move in front of Ryder and swipe my finger through the blood on his skin that hasn’t had the time to completely dry yet. “That wasn’t part of the plan.”

“What plan?” Kade snaps, leveling me with a glare.

“Hey, you can’t kill him yet,” I curse at Luca as I realize Andre is starting to turn a very unattractive shade of blue.

“Did you guys kill both of the other marks?”

“What plan, Scarlett?” Declan growls from behind me.

I wave him off. “Did you kill them or not?” I ask Ryder directly. He’s the most likely to give me answers. He also has the most blood on him. He nods, daring me to yell at him over it. I raise my brows as surprise filters through me. He never gives me attitude. That’s more Kade and Luca, Declan maybe, sometimes even Noah, but never Ryder.

“You went rogue again,” Kade accuses.

I roll my eyes and flip my hair over my shoulder and adjust this obnoxious dress. “Did not. You all were part of my plan. You guys are the ones who went rogue,” I accuse right back, eyeing the blood that splatters them.

“What fucking plan, Letty?” Luca demands this time.

Damn. Testy motherfuckers.

“I didn’t know if he would take the bait,” I finally answer, shrugging my shoulders to dismiss the statement.

A quiet curse breaks the deafening silence in the room and Charles pins me with a heated stare. “You didn’t tell me you were going to use yourself as fucking bait.”

All eyes swing towards him before coming back to me.

“You planned this ahead of time,” Noah says and I can see all the pieces clicking together in his head and grimace. Oh shit. I’m in trouble. I kind of thought I’d be able to play it off like a last minute decision.

Fucking Charles.

I glare at him but he immediately starts shaking his head. “Oh, hell no, Scar. Don’t give me that look. You know I never would have agreed if I knew this was your crazy ass plan.”

“None of us would have,” Kade reiterates.

Fuck me. It’s bad when they can all put aside their differences to gang up on me.

“I was just prepared for it to happen. The goal was just to find out if he even knew what he was looking for. What the protocol was when he did find something suspicious,” I defend.

“Alone?” Declan growls.

“I wasn’t really alone,” I argue. “I knew you guys were coming.”

“What if we were late?” he demands.

I roll my eyes. “I’m not exactly a damsel,” I remind him, tossing my blade up in the air and catch it deftly. “He didn’t even search me for weapons or know how to tie a proper knot. I was never in any real danger.”

“It was a fucking gamble, Letty,” Luca curses, taking his anger out on Andre and slamming him against the wall again. I bite my tongue and decide not to call him out on it. “The kind of gamble you swore not to take anymore.”

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