And did I say the heels weren’t my friends?
Without warning, I snatched one off my foot and charged that slimy bastard before he could come at me, wielding it like a weapon.
I knocked K Diamond onto his back. And he barely had time to blink before I finally punched him in the throat, like I’d wanted to do since the first day we met. But not with my fist this time, with the heel.
K Diamond’s life ended with a gurgling choke when the heel’s high stiletto plunged
into his neck.
I wasn’t a killer. That was what I thought.
But I killed K Diamond. I killed him. And after I did, a sense of satisfaction like nothing I’d ever felt before rolled over me….
Until Delun grabbed me by the hair and lifted me off K Diamond’s dead body.
“Now I do not have to pay him. How can I thank you for saving me so much money?” he murmured in my ear, the same, but so, so opposite from Han. My scalp screamed with pain as his words spidered into my ear.
Then he answered his own question, “Oh, I know. I’ll fuck you until you bleed.”
Heel…I had to get the other heel.
But when I lifted my right foot, I found out the hard way that I must have kicked my only other weapon off my foot when I charged K Diamond. I spotted it, still back by the mattress. And unfortunately, Delun was a lot smarter than his minion. He kicked it out of the way before throwing me face down on the mattress.
I fought. I fought as hard as I could. But he pinned a knee into my back. “Do you think I won’t break your spine? Send my brother pictures of me fucking your corpse?”
No, I didn’t put that past him. But I had to keep fighting. I loved Han, and I couldn’t let his brother win. Especially not like this.
I continued to struggle, refusing to give up.
“OK, have it your way,” Delun said, laughing on top of me. He increased the pressure into my spine. “You stupid b—umph!”
One moment I was fighting to the end, and the next, I was magically free with nothing holding me down.
Magic…
I flipped over, already knowing what had happened before I got a hold of the scene.
Or who had happened.
My Fae King was there, holding Delun by the hair as he’d held me with one hand. And the other hand had a knife at his brother’s throat.
No more English.
Han spoke in guttural Cantonese. And Delun did the same—though his voice was a lot higher. He seemed to be pleading for his life.
But then Han said something that made Delun start screaming words I did understand. “Cheng bat yiu! Cheng bat yiu!”
Please don’t! He screamed that over and over again.
Meanwhile, Han transferred the hand in his brother’s hair to the front of Delun’s pants.
What was he doing? I blinked at Han’s weird actions, not understanding.
Until suddenly, I did.
His brother screeched even louder than he’d screamed as he fell to his knees, spurting blood from his now dickless groin.
I watched, mesmerized as Han climbed on top of his brother and stopped his screeching with a punch. Then another. And another. So many punches until Delun lay dead, his face a mess of blood, bone, and skin.
Then finally, Han stood up like an animal rising from a kill.
And looked at me.
He was covered in his brother’s blood. The dick he’d sliced off lying just a few feet away.
I didn’t care.
I didn’t care.
I rushed into his arms. And he caught me.
Like the perfect wave.
Epilogue
“I don’t care if that criminal saved you from those gangsters who faked your death. I still don’t like him,” Mika said when she came over to join me on her and Rashid’s huge lanai, where the reception for Dawn and Victor’s wedding was currently popping off in the background.
I sighed as she carefully lowered herself and her six months pregnant belly into the chair beside where I was feeding Victor’s and Dawn’s baby, Joi, a bottle.
“Mika, don’t,” I begged. “I’ve almost got her asleep.”
Also, my usually loving and understanding sister had already made her feelings about Han known on more than one occasion. Including between tears of happiness when she discovered I was alive…then punched him straight in the nose while yelling that it was all his fault.
Yaron, the Lacerdas, the few 24Ks K Diamond had been able to retain…
The list of people Han killed to get to me that fateful day was in the double digits. But in our many long conversations afterward, he’d confessed to me that Mika had been the one name on his original list of targets that he hadn’t been able to kill.
Because she was an innocent. Even more, because she was my sister.
But he’d felt so guilty about everything that had happened after our fateful meeting, he probably would have let Mika beat him up if I hadn’t pulled her off of him.
