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  Lis sighed and nodded. She wasn’t happy, but she knew that he was only looking out for her safety. She also knew that she’d come out on her own if he wasn’t there within an hour. “Okay, fine. I’ll go hide like a scared little rabbit and let you handle this, but you and I are going to have a serious discussion about my capabilities when they’re gone. Understood?”

  “Yes, ma’am,” he said and grinned. “I love you, Lis.”

  “I love you, too,” she responded and walked to the back of the house. Once she was safely inside the panic room, Dakota walked back outside to await the arrival of the fire department.

  ***

  “It’s done,” Kiwa said into her phone as she stood at the edge of the trees and watched the flames from the burning SUV.

  “Good, good. Were either of the girls harmed in the explosion?” Mike asked as he stroked his hand up and down the leg of the tall brunette who was standing beside him.

  “No, but only because you didn’t want them to be. Elisabeth and Jackson drove over the bomb just moments before the SUV came through the gates. I could have taken them both out.”

  “Kiwa, love, you know I have special plans for them and you know that if anything happens to them before the time is right, I will kill you myself.”

  “You could try, but I have a feeling we’d just end up in bed like always,” Kiwa said with a wickedness that caused Mike’s dick to jump in his pants.

  “Mmm. Sounds like the best way to end my day,” he said and licked his lips as he pulled the busty brunette closer and unbuckled his pants. “Is she alone in the house now?”

  “She is. I’ll wait until the fire department gets here then I’ll make my move,” Kiwa confirmed and smiled. “I can’t wait to bring that bitch to you.”

  “Call me when you have her,” he told her and ended the call just as the brunette wrapped her lips around his bulging cock and started sucking hard. He moaned and wrapped his hands around her hair as she sucked him to completion.

  As Mike was indulging in one of his many whores, Kiwa was watching as the fire department pulled through the gates of the mansion. She knew she’d have to wait until Dakota was talking to them before she made her move, but that should be any moment now.

  When the firetrucks and police cars stopped in front of the blaze, she dashed from the tree line and into the back yard. She knew the layout of the mansion, including the upgrades, and could be at the newly installed panic room in under two minutes.

  She smiled as she entered the house and made her way to the panic room. As she stopped in front of the door she smiled again. “Too easy,” she whispered and keyed in the code.

  As the door slid open soundlessly, she chuckled softly and Lis looked up from where she was sitting. “How the fuck did you get in here?”

  “Well, princess, your boyfriend didn’t check out the company he had install this too well and he just cost you your life.”

  “Dakota would never make a mistake like that,” Lis said as she rose to her feet.

  “Oh, well then maybe it was his buddy’s little wifey who made the call. You know, the one in the guard shack that was kissing on him earlier?”

  “Jenn,” Lis said almost silently.

  “Yes, Jenn. She is my sister, after all,” Kiwa told her as she took a step closer.

  “Your sisters were both killed by the Chakravarthy family,” Lis countered and Kiwa chuckled.

  “My legitimate sisters were killed by them, yes. Jenn is my sister from one of my father’s many affairs. It isn’t a coincidence that she’s married to Jackson’s best friend.”

  “You morbid bitch,” Lis hissed out as Kiwa took another step toward her. As Kiwa took yet another step, Lis saw her opening and sprinted out the still open door of the panic room and down the hall toward her father’s office.

  Chapter Twenty-One

  “You think you can get away from me?” Kiwa shouted as she sprinted after Lis.

  “Not trying to,” Lis shouted over her shoulder as she entered her father’s office and ran to the bookshelf behind his desk. She knew the only way to save herself would be to fight and she was going to see just how well trained Kiwa was. “I’m not going to stand there and let you kill me though. I’m not going down without a fight, bitch.”

  “You really want to fight me? You’re stupider than Mike said you were!” Kiwa shouted and took a step toward Lis.

  “You’re the one he was fucking while we were engaged. You’re the bitch he was going to keep fucking after we married. I’m really going to enjoy killing you,” Lis told her and snagged one of her father’s double edged katanas off the book shelf behind her.

  Kiwa eyed her for a second before she snatched a katana off the other shelf and held it in front of her. “Bring it on, bitch.”

  Lis smiled at Kiwa’s confidence and stepped from behind the desk. “Show me what ya got.” Kiwa lunged and Lis grinned, easily evading the attack. “If that’s all you got then I’m going to take a nap,” Lis taunted and Kiwa’s face turned red.

  “I’ll show you what I got, cunt,” Kiwa yelled and lunged again, nicking Lis’ arm with the blade.

  “Five points for drawing first blood,” Lis praised her. “But we’re not going to keep score because you’re going to be dead by the time we’re finished here.”

  “We’ll see who’s dead,” Kiwa said quietly and lunged at Lis again. This time Lis evaded and countered the attack with a lunge of her own, clipping Kiwa in the side, just below the ribs. Kiwa growled fiercely as she grabbed her side. When she saw the blood covering her hand she snarled and gripped the handle of the katana.

  Lis, not giving Kiwa time to strike, gripped her katana with both hands and took a step forward. As she swung out, Kiwa leaped backwards, but didn’t put enough distance between them and the sharp blade sliced across her stomach.

  “You fucking bitch,” Kiwa said through gritted teeth. “I will kill you for that.”

  Lis responded with another swing of her katana, but Kiwa side stepped and evaded.

  “Scared, Nadas?” Lis taunted and dropped her katana to her side. “If not, then come get me.”

  Kiwa yelled and lunged at Lis again, letting her anger and pain lead her. Kiwa’s blade caught Lis in the side as she dropped to one knee and kicked her foot out, tripping Kiwa and causing her to stumble forward.

  “Resorting to school yard tactics, Manning?”

  “Fuck you, bitch,” Lis responded to Kiwa’s taunt and kicked her in the stomach, knocking her to the floor. “Let’s finish this.”

  Kiwa leapt to her feet and they circled each other for a moment before Kiwa lunged again. Lis swung out as she side-stepped Kiwa’s attack and the tip of her blade scraped across Kiwa’s cheek.

  “Bitch!” Kiwa shouted and brushed her fingers across her cheek. “You’re going to pay for that one.”

  Lis grinned at her, “Put it on my tab, bitch,” she told her and motioned for her to bring it on. Kiwa snarled, but didn’t advance. She had lost a significant amount of blood and was starting to feel weak. “Aww, is the little baby starting to get tired? Can’t handle the competition?” Lis taunted and Kiwa gripped her katana again.

  “Go to hell, bitch,” Kiwa said and jumped forward.

  Lis grinned as she dodged Kiwa’s forward thrust, and swung her katana with all of her strength just as Kiwa landed in front of her. When her katana connected with Kiwa’s neck, the blade sliced through, cleanly snapping the arteries, tissue, and bones connecting Kiwa’s head to her body.

  Kiwa’s body hit the thick carpet with a soft thud as her blood covered everything surrounding it. Lis sank to her knees and breathed deeply as pain shot through her side. She hadn’t even noticed Kiwa had nicked her until now.

  With her hand on her side, she rose to her feet and slowly walked back to the panic room.

  ***

  “Lis?” Dakota shouted as he rounded the corner. He’d gone to the panic room and saw the door standing open.

  “Dakota,” Lis an
swered as she almost ran into him.

  “Lis, are you okay? Why did you leave the panic room?” Dakota asked as he pulled her into his arms without really looking at her.

  “Dakota, you’re getting blood all over you,” Lis said calmly and Dakota released her. “Kiwa Nadas was here, Dakota. She had the panic room codes. Dakota, your friend Lee’s wife is Kiwa’s illegitimate sister. She’s been working with them this entire time.”

  “Wait, what? Jenn is Kiwa’s sister? Jenn is the one who set up the panic room install.”

  “She used one of Morrison’s ghost companies to do it. Kiwa had the codes. Kiwa came into the panic room, Dakota.”

  “Where is she now? Is she still in the house?” Dakota asked and started looking around him.

  “She’s in dad’s office. Dakota, she isn’t a threat any longer. She’s dead.”

  “How? Who killed her?” Dakota asked in a panic-filled voice as he started pulling Lis toward her father’s office in the front of the house.

  “I did,” Lis answered and Dakota stopped in his tracks and looked at her for the first time.

  “What the fuck?”

  “Most of the blood is hers, but I have lost a little of my own,” she said in explanation to the blood covering her.

  “Fuck, you were supposed to be safe,” Dakota said softly and pulled her into his arms. “Let’s get you cleaned up, then we will call someone to come clean up your father’s office.”

  “I decapitated her,” Lis said and grinned. “That should not make me happy, but it does.”

  Dakota laughed loudly at the expression on her face. “I’m glad you’re okay, love.”

  “Me too,” she said and grinned again. “Kiwa was the one Mike was fucking while he and I were together.”

  “Really? So he lost his fiancée and lover now. He’s going to be pissed as hell when he finds out.”

  Lis thought about that for a moment and grinned again. “Wonder how he’d handle it if he found out his ex-fiancée is the one who took his lover from him? Dakota, before we call in someone to clean up, I have an idea.”

  As Lis showered and Dakota bandaged her wounds, she explained what she wanted to.

  “You, my dear, have one evilly, disturbed mind. I love it,” Dakota told her and chuckled.

  “Don’t you forget it either,” Lis warned him and he laughed.

  “Oh, trust me, I won’t.”

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  “Lee, we need to talk,” Dakota announced as he entered the guard shack a little while later.

  “Sure,” Lee told him as he sat down. “Sounds serious.”

  “That’s because it is,” Dakota acknowledged as he perched on the edge of the desk. “What can you tell me about Jenn’s family?”

  “Not much, why?”

  “Have you ever met her parents?”

  “I’ve met her mom, but her dad was killed several years ago in a warehouse explosion. Want to tell me what this is about?”

  “I have reason to believe that she is the illegitimate daughter of the late Takeshi Nadas.”

  “Why in the hell would you think that?”

  “Because his legitimate daughter told Lis that just before Lis killed her a couple of hours ago,” Dakota told him and sighed. “I hope she was lying, but I need to ask Jenn a few questions.”

  “You want to question my wife?” Lee asked, anger lacing his voice.

  “Lee, calm down. Somehow Kiwa had the security codes for the house and the panic room. I know Jenn is the one who had all of that installed. I need to find out if she knew that Secure Guard was a ghost company owned by Morrison. I need to know if she’s working with Morrison. I need to know if she lied to me and put Lis in danger.”

  “She didn’t. There’s no way she could have,” Lee told him.

  “Lee, Elisabeth decapitated a woman she’d known most of her life. A woman who was sent by Morrison to either kidnap or kill her. A woman who did injure her in a fucking sword fight. Now, you can either call Jenn and get her down here or I will go to your house and question her there without your presence. Your choice.”

  “I’ll call her,” Lee gave in. He knew Dakota well enough to know that he meant what he said. “I’m sure you’re wrong, though.”

  “I hope I am, Lee. For your sake as well as hers.”

  Lee turned his back to Dakota and picked up his phone. When he turned back a moment later he looked worried. “Her phone went straight to voicemail. She never turns her phone off. Ever.”

  “Could it have died?” Dakota asked.

  “She just charged it while she was here earlier. She left right before the explosion and her phone was fully charged.”

  Dakota looked at him for a second before he nodded and walked out of the shack.

  “Dakota, if what you said is true, she could be in trouble,” Lee said as he followed Dakota out of the shack.

  “If what I said is true, she is in trouble,” Dakota acknowledged. “Morrison and Nadas were lovers and now Nadas is dead. If Jenn is her sister and did help her, Morrison will blame her for Kiwa’s death and will most likely have her assassinated.”

  “Fuck. We have to get to her before Morrison does,” Lee said and darted to his car.

  Dakota watched him drive through the gates, but didn’t make a move to follow him. Instead, he walked back to the house and went inside to where Lis, James, Rachel, and David were awaiting the arrival of the cleanup crew.

  “Dakota, did you talk to Lee? Are you going to talk to Jenn?” Lis asked as soon as he walked into the kitchen.

  “I did talk to Lee, but Jenn is missing. She’s turned her cell off,” he answered and turned to David. “I have her number. Can you try to find her GPS location?”

  “Sure I can, if you have the right equipment for me to use,” he responded and Dakota grinned.

  “You do remember who you’re talking to, right?” he asked and David laughed.

  “Lead the way, brother,” David responded and Dakota led him to a large room hidden behind a hidden panel in the wall.

  “Do your magic,” Dakota said and motioned to the computers lining one of the walls.

  ***

  As David searched for Jenn’s cell phone signal, Jenn was sitting in Morrison’s mansion. “Mike, I promise you that Kiwa will be here in a little while with Elisabeth. She’s highly trained and knows what she’s doing.”

  “Jenn, if anything happens to her, I will personally kill you,” Mike told her and she cringed slightly.

  “I’m sure she’s fine. She knows the codes and the layout of the mansion. Even if Elisabeth runs, Kiwa will catch her. You even said that Elisabeth isn’t a fighter.”

  “Lis isn’t a fighter, but Jackson is and he will try to stop Kiwa if he comes across her,” Mike told her. “You’re sure it was just those two that came in before the explosion?”

  “Yes, I’m completely sure. I was there for three hours before they got there and no one else came in.”

  “Okay, good,” Mike said and looked at Jenn. “While we wait for Kiwa to return, why don’t we have some fun?”

  “Fun?” Jenn asked and raised one eye brow.

  “Yes, fun,” Mike answered as he unbuckled his belt.

  “I like fun,” Jenn responded as she slid off the sofa she’d been sitting on and crawled to where Mike was sitting.

  Mike stood up from his chair and pulled his belt from his pants. When she reached up to unbutton his pants he shook his head and motioned for her to turn around. “This is going to be a lot of fun,” he said and slapped her hard across the ass with his belt.

  When she yelped and tried to cover her ass with her hands, he pulled her over to his desk and pulled off his tie. After he tied her hands behind her back, he bent her over the desk and jerked her short skirt up over her hips.

  “Luscious ass,” he said and smacked it again with his belt. “You keep quiet or I’ll gag you, understand?” Jenn nodded and he smacked her across the ass with the belt again before he jerked her pantie
s down and slid his fingers inside of her. “You liked me smacking your ass. You can deny it, but your cunt disagrees. Your juices are flowing and you are ready for me.”

  He moved his hand, quickly pulled his pants down, and covered himself with a condom before he plunged deep inside her and started moving hard and fast. When she cried out he stopped moving and yanked her head back by her hair.

  “I told you to be quiet,” he said in her ear. “Now I must gag you.”

  He pulled a bandana from his pocket and tied it around her mouth then started moving inside her again. As he pounded he started talking. “You have sacrificed so much for this, but I must ask you to sacrifice one more thing,” he said and wrapped his belt around her neck. “You’ve always been a good fuck, but your usefulness to the family has come to an end. I’m sorry, Jenn, but this will be the last time we can be together.”

  He pulled the belt tighter as he felt her release building. When she came around him, he pulled the belt even tighter and continued to pound into her as she struggled to breath. When he saw her eyes roll back and felt her body go lax, he shouted his release and let her fall to his desk.

  “You always were a good fuck,” he said to her motionless body as he pulled the condom off and tossed it in the trash can. He pulled the bandana from her mouth and untied her hands before he removed the belt from around her neck. After fixing her panties and skirt, he called for two of his men to come in.

  “Get rid of her,” he said as he sat behind his desk and lit a cigarette. “And call me when Kiwa gets here.”

  Once the men were gone with Jenn’s body, Mike puffed on his cigarette and thought about what had just happened. As he remembered the sound of her drawing her last breath, he grew hard again. Sex and murder were his two favorite things, but when combined, he was in his own, personal heaven.