Love and Betrayal

Chapter eleven

Dani kept landing blow after blow on Nia while Brody cowered behind people standing just inside the door. Dani was seeing red and the woman in front of her was going to pay for inciting the violence. Nia, not wanting to lose face, rushed Dani again but didn’t make it to her. Dani threw herself at Nia and headbutted her in the face, busting her nose and lips. Tired and beaten, Nia fell to the floor, covered in her own blood. Still Dani stalked her. Nia crawled across the floor, tears making tracks through the blood on her face. “ Please guys help me, she’s going to kill me.” She pleaded. Not wanting Dani to feel the backlash, regret and disgust he knew she would, Kajika stepped in front of her, his hands up, palms out. “ Come back to me Cross. You don’t want to kill this stupid slut. I don’t care for her sake but I do care for yours.” he said in a soft, deep, soothing voice. Slowly, Dani came back to herself. Her head hurt, her hands hurt and her elbows hurt. Shaking her head, Dani looked around her. There was blood on the mats and Cain, one of the guys who’d come in with the slutty girl. Cain was dead and the girl nearly so. “ Brody get Nia to the med wing. When she’s better, I want her out of here!” Keener said. “ Wait!” Dani said loudly. With purpose, Dani walked right up to Aaron and practically climbed his body. She sealed her lips over his and wrapped her legs around his waist. They kissed passionately while Nia looked on. Aaron groaned and holding on to her ass with both hands rubbed her body against his. Dani broke away from the kiss and stared hard down at Nia. “ Aaron Keener is mine. If you ever try to put your filthy little slut hands on him again, I will make you scream in so much pain, you will beg me to end your life.” She said. Brody picked Nia up then and left.

Dragov stood there and stared in awed fear at the tiny woman. He’d had his phone out and recording the whole thing. He now knew why she was called the reaper. The look on her face after Cain had kicked her had been pure death. She really was a killing machine. There had been no emotion, no life in her eyes when she’d been fighting. Hell she killed Cain in one hit. When Agent Cross climbed Keener like a tree and practically dry humped him in front of everyone, he’d found himself envious. “ That was f*****g hot!” Dragov said. Dani frowned and looked back at Cain’s body again and Dragov saw the regret and remorse on her face. He could see how tired she was. “ Are you okay?” Javier asked her. Dani shook her head. She knew he was talking more about her emotional and mental health rather than her physical one. After all she’d only been hit once and she’d been through much worse. Dani looked at Javier, her eyes darkening with emotion. “ I’m sorry.” She whispered.  She left the training arena, put on her gear, grabbed her weapons and left. Keener watched as Dani put her gear on and strapped on her weapons. It was enlightening to see the Reaper. He’d seen the woman, the avenger and he’d fought her when she was emotional. The Dani he just saw, she was the killer, the specialist. The Division had taken anything that was good inside of her and nearly completely destroyed it. She’d been so good at her job that they seemed to forget that she was a person, not a robot. She was barely clinging onto the last of her humanity. He knew how she felt. They all did, Kajika, Parnell, Dragov. Conley seemed to thrive on the death and violence. There was something very wrong about that woman but Keener didn’t dwell on it. He worried about Dani. He only just got her. He didn’t want to lose her to the emotionless killer, her life and the Division had created.