CHAPTER 70
MARCO
WHEN THE DEVIL TIGHTENS HIS GRIP
That did not just happen…
The sound of her footsteps disappearing down the hallway was louder than the gunshots I’d grown up to hear, getting louder and disrupting my senses. Each step echoed like a countdown inside my skull: Five. Four. Three…. And by the time the door slammed somewhere down the east wing corridor, something inside me cracked so violently I gladly welcomed the pain.
I didn't even give myself the time to think or reason about the consequences of my actions, I lunged.
“MARCO.”
Travis caught me hard around the chest before his voice fully registered in my brain, slamming me back before I could take more than two steps. My shoulder collided with the edge of a marble pillar and pain exploded down the arm, but it was noth
