Fall For My Ex’s Mafia Father

Gifts

Chapter 30 – Flee-1

Daniel grabs me by the hand, pulling me to the south side of the room where a terrace balcony runs. Kent is close behind us, providing cover. There’s a door there at the corner of the room and I’m filled with relief when I see it – but suddenly, a man jumps in front of it –

A man all in black, wearing a ski mask

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I stop short and start to pull Daniel back, but my act is disrupted when I hear a BANG at my ear and scream again, clutching the side of my face.

The man in front of us falls and Daniel bolts forward, dragging me with him, I turn slightly to look behind at Kent and see a gun in his hand-

What the – how the hell did he

“Go, Fay!” he yells at me, clearly frustrated at my delay.

I nod and turn my attention back to Daniel, who reaches the door and pushes it open, pushing me against the wall.

Kent darts out, quickly scanning – then I hear more noise, see his finger pulse again as he shoots –

There are screams, thumps – I hardly have any time to process anything as Kent yells “clear!” and Daniel pulls me through the door. We run ahead of Kent then as he follows closely behind, watching our backs.

All of a sudden, I realize that there are bodies that we’re stepping over – there’s blood on the ground – one of the men on the ground moans, reaching for his gun and I skitter away. Before he can reach it, though, we’re beyond him.

Panic is rocketing through me, so much that I can’t think, can only act – can only follow Daniel wherever he’s leading me –

We run to the end of the terrace and wait for Kent to pass us. He goes down the stairs first, expertly sweeping the area, firing efficiently at the threats he sees. Daniel looks anxiously behind us, but no one comes through the door –

“Clear!” Kent shouts up and we start down the stairs. “Fucking hurry, Daniel!” he shouts, and I almost stumble in my haste.

When we get to the bottom there is a moment of quiet where we huddle together with Kent.

“Listen to me,” Kent says, his eyes darting between us. “I don’t know who did it, but this is a setup, targeted at us. They want one of us – maybe all of us his eyes shift to me, “Maybe just Fay. So we have got to get out of here, fast.”

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nod and I feel my panic subside just a very little bit under Kent’s expert command. I trust

eyes sweep over me then, lighting on my stilettos. “Get those fucking things off your feet,” he says and I hurry to pull them off, standing barefoot on the cement at the bottom of the stairs. Then, he looks around once

for it,” he says, gesturing a hand out towards the golf course

then keep going. When I say go, you two run.” He

face sternly between his fingers. “Do not fall apart on me now, Fay,” he growls. “Cry

do as he says – pull myself together – and then he crouches down, ready to cover us as

ready, and then there’s a long pause…I almost look back,

my hand in his. I work hard to keep up, but

me-

I push myself, willing my legs to whirl, to push,

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– Flee–2

of gunshots ringing out behind

the back of my dress but then it’s gone –

reach the treeline I look back, just a moment, and see that there’s a body behind

behind us, running too, squeezing off live fire as he goes

he stumbles, grabbing his arm-

trying

yells, gripping my hand harder

your dad

go! Don’t

follow him, my breath coming fast and sharp in my chest, an ache rising

larger,

under their boughs, I

that press into my palms and legs.

me, looking around warily. “I think…I think we may be okay for now – lost them –”

we may have

not he’s right. I concentrate on the ground, on getting air back into my lungs, the

on my face. He’s much calmer than me, both physically and mentally. “How are

“Once or twice,” he says, putting a hand on my shoulder. “It doesn’t get…better. But you stop being so

Daniel means that this won’t be the last time this happens to him, or to me. This is part of

open my mouth to ask more when a dark figure comes into sight. Both Daniel and I