“Why’d you change your mind?” He’s smirking at me with victorious look on his damn face. Nice move to sprinkle salt in my caping wound.
“You’re just THAT irresistible,” I say as I walk where he is holding the door open for me. Few steps from him I hear it. The sound that makes the blood in my veins run backwards. The sound of bullets swishing through the air. s**t. Not again.
Memories from few years ago hit me like a swinging door again and again. But this time I don’t feel the same fear. This time they are not here to get me, they’re here to protect me.
Barraza wraps his arm around me and almost throws me inside car before he jumps in himself. He is not really panicking but I can see the alarms are going off in his head as he is looking for a way out.
‘Call them off. I am fine.
