IVIN POV
The room was a whole ss and the ladies were even worse. The uncomfortable tension hung heavy in the air, broken only by the chatter of the twins who made carefree sounds while watching their iPad.
"Ivin" I heard my boss and my friend say. "Take the van with the ladies. I’ll distract them with the Jeep" I nodded in understanding. We didn’t need to say too much because for all we knew the house might be rigged, especially based on the kind of pictures that had been leaking. Pictures taken within the house.
I signaled to the won. We couldn’t do this twice. The van had to fit everybody.
I looked from Nova and Aurora in her arms to the nanny fawning over the twins, Phoenix and Asher, then to my very own Nala who looked like she’d seen a ghost. Her face was as white as a sheet of paper and the way she kept rubbing her exposed arms with her palms was a glaring indication of how uncomfortable she was. I made a ntal note to drop my hoodie for her once we got into the van.
Then there was Luca’s wife. Giulia kept looking at everyone with her nose in the air, proud in a way that made her seem distant. Her husband, who would have made things easier, was on a top mission hideout trying to fish out whoever the assassin sponsor was.
Then Lena, who looked like she’d rather be anywhere but here but managed to cover it up with a too-stretched smile. Her attention stayed focused on relating with the twins who were too far engrossed in their gadgets. She had received an anonymous threat ssage from the assassins too.
At the other end of the room was Sam. He’d almost been murdered in his ho at Petals Creek if not for the tily arrival of one of Grant’s spies.
Sam spotted a bloody bandage around his neck where his attacker had cut him deep with a knife. Thankfully it wasn’t too far from his artery before rescue ca. So he had to be in this hideout with us because he was as good as dead on his own. Nova felt like she owed him so now Sam was with us on this trip as well.
Few hours later we arrived at the deserted town where we were to lay low for a while. To anyone watching, the building looked like a small supermart. I carefully parked at the private lot behind the building. So far no car had tailed us and the security team behind us assured us that we were good. But one could never be too careful. While they’d done a general sweep of the ground, I still ensured they disguised themselves into the mall.
The mall was a front. Underneath there was a well lit and perfectly equipped underground space. My boss, like I loved to call Grant, had ensured this place was perfectly lit with the highest possible security technology decked everywhere.
Soon after I unlocked the door and the kids as well as the others settled into the space, everywhere fell silent with tension. But it was ti I left. Most of my personal n were on the grounds already keeping watch round about and Grant’s n were also in disguise all nearby. If any evil was to happen there were more than enough hands to handle things. My utmost duty was to Grant whether he liked it or not.
"You’re not expecting any guests besides or Mr Calloway and you won’t need to open the door. In case of any noise, suspicions or disturbances just press any of the ergency buttons and you should all stay hidden."
They all nodded. I’d repeated the sa piece of information several tis already and I was sure they all got the hang of it.
I was unlocking the door when I heard a loud crash. I imdiately locked the door and ran to investigate the cause of the chaos only to find Nala about to fall on her ass with soda from broken bottles making the floor around her slippery.
I ran right on ti to catch her mid fall before pulling her body to myself. Her eyes were still closed, definitely expecting the impact. When she realized she hadn’t landed in a painful crash, she finally opened her eyes slowly, one eyelid at a ti.
"Ivin" she breathed softly with sothing like relief tinging her voice.
"You shouldn’t be in this room Nalayna" I whispered so only she could hear . I was aware that we now had an audience. They obviously heard the crash too and ca to investigate but we needed to play this carefully.
"Then you shouldn’t have brought here Ivin" she snapped back at . She didn’t know when to quit, did she?
"Which part of ’there’s a bounty on our head’ don’t you understand?" I clenched my jaw in an attempt to restrain myself from throttling the troubleso woman.
"You can unhand " she gritted back. It was then I noticed my hand had been pressing her waist and her arm too tightly.
"Sorry about that" I apologized sheepishly.
"If only you were actually sorry" she bit back carefully, putting distance between us.
"I’m not a caveman Ginger head. When I say I’m sorry I actually an it" I didn’t ever explain myself to anyone besides my boss but right now I found myself trying to make this infuriating woman see sense before facing our small crowd with a fake ass smile.
"She’s fine. Thank y’all for checking" I assured them. After their bids and murmurs of be careful they finally dispersed, leaving just and Nala in the hallway.
One of my three n assigned to keep guard indoors walked past us at that mont, nodding a brief greeting. I shielded Nala just then, only for her to push off roughly.
"For fuck sake woman—"
"How dare you cover ? Are you now staking a public claim? Like a dog peeing over your collection? Do you need to pee over ? You’re such a misogynistic bastard. Why can’t I—"
"Nalayna" I half barked. "What the fuck are you saying?"
"I’m saying you’re taking this too far. You are not my voice, nor my man. Don’t speak for , don’t use your body to cover mine when soone is passing by or greeting and don’t you dare try to be misogynistic with "
"I’m this close, Nalayna, this close to disposing of you to ease my troubles" I could barely hold myself together and I was tempted to make more threats.
"I dare you to kill . Just kill off"
I shook my head before straightening my jacket and walking away from her but not before saying one last word.
"Your button ca off when you almost fell and your chest was exposed. I was rely offering you privacy" I said without looking back at her before walking to the main door. I stood so the cara could access my face and give access. I could hear murmurs behind but I paid them no mind.
"Are you sure dragging her into this was wise?" I heard Grant say over the earplug. He had access to the live footage of all the caras in the building.
"It’s already too late now" I answered him while I picked random stuff off the shelf to fill my shopping bag so anyone watching could see I bought sothing. The people disguised as Nova and the rest followed back into the car.
"You can still dispose of her" Grant said again over the earplug and this ti I didn’t bother to respond.
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