Leonardo
No matter what happens tonight, I won’t let anything touch my wife. Not a single f*****g thing. If anyone dies here, it’ll be me first.
The moment Augustus lifts his hand, his thumb hovering over that tiny switch that can blow this entire place to hell, my heart stops. Then instinct takes over.
I lunge and grab Nayana then shove her beneath me, my body covering hers as I pin her to the ground. Her soft gasp hits my ear, fear trembling in her voice as she tries to understand what’s happening. I cage her in with my arms, shielding every inch of her from whatever might come. My chest presses to her back, and I don’t even care that the cement scrapes my knees. If this place detonates, the explosion is hitting me first. I don’t care if I burn alive.
She survives. That’s all that ma
