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The scream tore through the house like a gunshot.
I was moving before my brain caught up, gun already drawn as I shoved past Raine and burst through the front door. Isla’s voice echoed from the hallway. My blood ran hot. If Vex had left men behind, if they’d circled back while we stood outside talking…
I cleared the corner low, sweeping the hallway. Isla was on the ground in the guest room doorway, wrestling with a man in dark clothes. A skinny bastard with a knife in one hand and Isla’s wrist in the other. She had her knee jammed into his groin and was snarling like a wildcat.
“Get the f**k off her!” I roared.
The intruder’s head snapped up. His eyes widened when he saw me. He tried to scramble back, but Isla drove her elbow into his face with a sick crunch. Blood sprayed ac
