Clara’s POV
Gunfire cracked through the factory like thunder, shattering the stale, heavy air.
For a moment, all I could do was stand there, frozen, my breath caught in my throat as the world fell apart around me.
This wasn’t supposed to happen.
It was supposed to be simple. Dominic broken, stripped of everything he’d built and Ethan mine. But Dominic wasn’t broken.
And now, as bullets flew and men screamed, I saw exactly how badly I had underestimated him.
“Get him out of here!” one of the masked men shouted, dragging Ethan by the arm. My Ethan.
The sight of him bruised, terrified, stumbling to keep up, ripped through me like a blade. I had spent weeks watching over him, protecting him in my own way while the others saw him as nothing more than leverage.
And now they were taking h
