Avery’s POV Lisa grunted as we fell down, her haggard hair disarrayed in perfect arrangements; her face sculping great twists of frustration. I didn't allow her even a second of respite. I straddled her, took the front of her pricey silk blouse and slammed her head against the marble floor. She gasped, but I could barely hear it over the chaos that erupted around us. Gunfire cracked through the air, and Dominic's deep curses mixed with the sharp clicks of Raven's tech. Noah was shouting my name, but I couldn't focus on him right now. To put it another way, Lisa has been tearing my life apart over many years. If I did not end this thing now, she would never stop. She recovered quickly, raising her knee into my ribs to knock the breath from my lungs. I rolled away instantly to just slide

