I squeezed with the strength of a body that had faced death countless times and was still standing. A body that had taken down men three times the size of this scum. A body that had triumphed.
And then I reached into the depths of my reserves for even more—the reserves that had kept me alive in the past, the ones that I’d always fallen back on to save my own life. Now, I called on them for Natalia.
But the body I’d always depended on, which had stumbled but never fallen, that had racked up kill after kill—it failed me now. My vision darkened as I dropped him and fell back onto my knees, wheezing for breath.
I couldn’t slip into the darkness. I fought against it. To lay my eyes on her and know she was okay, to kiss lips I’d barely begun to learn. To speak the things I couldn’t imagine never saying . . .
I mouthed her name. I needed to return to her, to my . . . my . . . “Natalia—”
“Don’t worry about Natalia.” It took every effort to lift my head and meet the Belmonte-Ruiz member’s eyes as he stood over me with his bloody dagger. His mouth slid into a menacing smile. “Your wife is next.”
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