Claimed (Blood Ties #6)

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It mattered very much.

TWENTY

Vivienne

Ding. The elevator door opened.

“Vivienne,” London murmured, staring straight ahead. “Behind me, pet.”

I stopped with my gun in my hand as London stepped out of the elevator on the twenty-sixth floor of a building in the middle of the city. One filled with powerful men in expensive suits just like the one London wore now. But he didn’t look like the stuffy assholes who’d glared at us as we’d walked through the foyer downstairs. He looked like violence wrapped in black Ferragamos.

Polished boots hit the gleaming tiled floor of the foyer with a thud. Perfectly cut trousers pulled taut around powerful thighs as he lengthened his stride. Three other men flanked him. Paid mercenaries dressed in black cargos and tight t-shirts, leaving me to follow.

It wasn’t just fresh intel my sister, Helene, had given him. It was a whole other level of aggression, one London took to very well. He never once looked nervous as he headed toward the frosted glass doors on the top floor of the building. Ones etched with Harmon Inc.

No, he looked like a shark hunting…and he didn’t just smell blood.

He smelled a massacre.

Harmon Inc. was one of The Order’s newest and biggest financial backers…the chairman, Julius Harmon, was, as of now, one of Hale’s latest best friends, and was helping him escape the city.

Over his dead body, where the words London muttered as Helene handed over all the information she had on Julius Harmon. While Carven, Guild, and Harper led teams that raided various parts of the city, we’d waited for the intel Helene had orchestrated to finally come in. Three days of strategic planning later, and here we were.

London pushed through the glass doors, leaving one mercenary to catch the swing and hold it open for me.

“Sir?” The receptionist rose behind a high gleaming glass desk. Her eyes widened, taking in London, then the three massive males, before those wide eyes settled on me.

She swallowed hard, then fumbled for the telephone in front of her.

One of our men stopped in front of her desk. “Uh-uh,” he murmured, reaching over the counter to place the handset in her grasp back down. “Let’s not do that, shall we?”

We left him behind and followed London as he headed down the long hallway to the closed office door at the end. He was past the point of discussion now, well beyond anyone capable of seeing reason. He lifted his leg, unleashed his boot at the edge of the door and kicked it in with a crack!

“Julius Harmon,” he said coldly, swinging that deadly stare through the room. “Let me introduce myself. My name is London St. James…and you have information I want.”

“What the fuck?” One of the men burst out, his gaze moving to the two other men flanking the table.

But it was the two bodyguards standing at the front of the room they focused on. The men reacted. One reached into his jacket for a weapon as the other one rushed forward, charging one of the armed men. London moved so fast I barely saw it.

Bang!

The crack resounded before the bodyguard in front of him pulled his gun. Blood bloomed in the middle of his forehead before he slumped to the floor.

“What the FUCK IS GOING ON?” Julius Harmon roared, shoving to his feet so hard his chair toppled to the floor.

“Like I said, you have something I want and I’m here to get it.”

I gripped the gun, my focus on the mercenary and the other bodyguard as they collided with a sickening crunch. I swung my gun, my focus on the threat in front of me. I didn’t hear the soft creak of the connecting door at my back.

“Don’t fucking move.” The low growl came from behind me.

London swung his gaze around as the man behind me lifted a gun and pressed it against my head.

“No hasty moves,” he murmured in my ear. “Don’t want to see the bitch’s brains splattered all over the room now, do we?”

If it’d been at any other time before Colt had been taken, I might’ve been terrified enough to do exactly what he demanded. But like London, I was past the point of fear, steeped well in rage.

“Easy,” I whispered. “I’ll do anything you say.”


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