"I an, I'm not saying that I am crazy or anything, just a bit… off-kilter," I said to the mysterious shooter down the hall of the 29th floor. I was hoping that the other teams were fairing a bit better than we were, but what was the chance we would have other military personnel in this building?
It wasn't fair.
'Go,' I whispered to my pink fla. "But off-kilter in the cute and cuddly way, not the serial killer type way, I promise," I said out loud. I was waiting for the screaming to start to let know when we could et this person who has taken up so much of my ti. Not to ntion the friends with him. But then again, I rarely saw soldiers go anywhere without another mber of their team, so I guess I would have to employ the plus one strategy; if you see one, always assu that there is at least one more around.
1…2…3…4….5…. there it is… a loud piercing scream filled the hallway and stairwell as my pink fla found its target. Standing up, I dusted myself off and walked towards the railing that blocked the hall where we were from the stairwell. "I suggest that you hurry up and do whatever it was that you were supposed to do. The distraction in the hallway is currently burning. And it is just going to get worse the longer we prolong this eting," I yelled down at the people who I knew were trying to surprise us in the stairway.
Silence t my statent. "Suit yourself," I said as I walked through the opened door and down the hall where my fla was waiting for .
I heard a growl coming from Chen Zi Han as he rushed to my side. "You don't do that, Princess," he growled in my ear sending my mind spinning in directions that were not conducive to a hallway with people trying to kill us hiding sowhere.
"Do what?" I asked, seriously confused. The threat from this direction had been neutralized, otherwise, I would have walked into a hail of bullets. Seeing as there was none, I was safe. See?
"You do not walk first through a doorway towards people that want to kill you," Chen Zi Han said as he pulled off to the side and allowed the rest of the team to go through first.
I chuckled at that thought. "I am pretty sure that I am always surrounded by people wanting to kill ," I admitted as I nodded my head towards the n and woman rushing down the hall to find the poor sap that was standing in a circle of my flas.
Chen Zi Han just let out a low sound of displeasure but did not contradict . I was sure that in his ti as an enforcer with the Red Dragon Syndicate, he understood what I was saying. No matter how hard you worked or how much you got along with the people around you, there was always the chance of being stabbed in the back when you least expected it.
"Don't do it again," he stared at , his index finger inches from my nose. I jokingly snap at it, only for him to move his finger out of the way so quickly I didn't even see him reaching around the back of my neck before pulling closer to him. I couldn't move, I couldn't even really struggle, not like I really tried all that hard. My breath was trapped in my lungs as I looked at the towering man in front of .
He was a freaking enforcer of a criminal organization that did not think twice about snapping soone's neck or shooting them point-blank in the back of the head. The man was almost a foot and a half taller than , and with his bulk, I was nothing more than a kitten in the clutches of a tiger.
The tattoos that I could see, those on his fingers, hands and neck were practically pulsing with the energy inside of them, drawing in, begging for my touch. But even with all that, I was not the least bit scared. This man was my knight, my dark knight willing to protect from the world. How could I possibly be scared of him?
In fact, his entire being called to , making want to soak in his essence so that there was always a part of him in .
He stared into my eyes, a harsh look on his face, but that didn't bother at all. Whatever it was that he saw on my face or in my eyes caused him to grip the back of my neck even harder, but I only smiled.
Slowly leaning closer to the man that had enthralled, I went onto my tiptoes and licked him across his right cheek. "Mine," I whispered into his ear as I ca back down to the floor. I looked up at the man, my neck completely exposed as I had to tilt my head completely back to be able to see him.
Once again, his grip on tightened with my statent, but he said nothing, just continued to stare down at . It was his turn to lower himself to be able to look directly in my face. With a quick move, just like the predator that he was, he latched onto my exposed neck and not so gently dug his teeth into my skin. I gasped in surprise, the feeling sowhere between pain and pleasure as I closed my eyes and let him do what he wanted to .
As if he was just waiting for my surrender, he released his mouth from my throat as I let out a soft moan of protest. He flattened his tongue and swiped it up and over where he had just bitten. "Mine," he growled down at as he stood to his imposing height, his hand never leaving the back of my neck.I think you should take a look at
"Yours," I agreed, not able to look away from him. It was like we were in our own little world at that mont where only the two of us existed. I could still feel my neck throbbing from his bite and I raised my left hand to cover the spot. "Yours," I said again, this ti making both a statent and a promise.
"Yours," he said in return, this ti a smile breaking out over his face making him look 10 years younger. My heart thumped painfully in my chest at his words, his promise to .
"If you two are done, we are going to need you," yelled Zhou Hui Fan as he stood with his gun raised in front of an open door in the middle of the floor.
"So people really like being a lightbulb," I grumbled as Chen Zi Han slowly released my neck with a low chuckle at my words.
"We can continue it later, Princess," he reassured and his hand slid down my arm to grab my hand. Raising it to his lips, he brushed an incredibly soft, gentle kiss to my knuckles. "We have a whole lifeti."
Grunting because he wasn't wrong, I was still a bit annoyed at being interrupted. It was the first ti that I had ever seen him like that and I wanted and needed to see it more. But, the more rational side of admitted that this was not the right ti to be lost in his arms as we were in the middle of an operation, but I was really finding it hard to step out of his embrace.
Still chuckling, he continued to hold my hand and brought down the hall to where the rest of our team was waiting.
I walked right up to where Zhou Hui Fan giving him a glare before going to look into the apartnt building in front of us. "Sorry," he said, sounding anything but sorry. I grunted in reply, still too cranky to form words. I heard him laughing under his breath and I stuck out my tongue. Stepping through the opened door, I saw the reason why none of the n would go inside.
In the middle of what could only be the living room, stood at least nine swirling columns of pink flas that reached from the hardwood floors to the ceiling. I raised my eyebrows at the sight. Apparently, I would have to rethink my plus one strategy and change it to plus 8, and that didn't even include however many people were in the stairwell trying to ambush us.
"We still have a team on the stairway, right?" I asked, not taking my eyes away from the flas in front of .
"We do," confird Wang Chao as he ca up behind and wrapped an arm around my waist, pulling my flush against his front.
I humd in reply and leaned against the man. "So, is anyone going to claim to be the leader of this motley crew or are we just going to start killing people? Either way, I don't particularly care," I said, enjoying the feeling of Wang Chao.
"," ca a voice from one of the pillars. Waving my hand, I reduced the fla just enough to expose his face but not enough to give him the idea that he could get away if he tried.
I felt the man stiffen behind and I turned my head to look at him. "Li Yi Ming?" ca the deep voice behind . Now it was my turn to stiffen.
"General?" he asked, his voice hesitant as if he didn't recognize Wang Chao. Wang Chao humd and nodded his head confirming his identity.
Well fuck.
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