Hurts so good

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR|| SAM

"We're here."

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And here I was thinking Amaris and Aunt Joyce would be reasonable and actually listen.

"We should wait for the all-clear from Jerome. They're still fighting," I plead while the two incredibly stubborn women gear up.

"We're already here; we might as well join. They had a thirty-minute head start. It's our turn now." Aunt Joyce says, strapping on her gun and twirling two kunai knives around her fingers. Amaris follows and straps on her guns as well before picking up twin custom-made swords.

She unsheaths one of the swords and brings it up to her nose, inhaling the scent and something lights up in her eyes. "Let's have some fun."

I cave and gear up. We walk through a huge opening in the side gate that was made by a chain cutter and large red containers come into view. Dead bodies are at every corner and blood splatters paint almost every surface we come in contact with.

Two men approach from the rear and I shoot them in the head. It's nothing personal. I believe in acknowledging and respecting your enemies but two very stubborn and authoritative women are dragging me along for a very bad idea and I'm sure the three guys I only just became friends with will kill me if anything happens to them. In conclusion, I'm in a very bad mood.

A small group approaches from the front and I shoot them all as well. Instead of "thank you's", I'm met with glares. Glares from the two women I just protected. "Are you kidding me? Stop killing all of them!" Amaris whisper-yells.

"What?! They were going to kill you! I'm protecting you!" I whisper-yell back at her.

"Oh please, you just want to hog all the fun for yourself!" Aunt Joyce whisper-yells at me. What the hell is happening right now? Are they-

"You can't possibly be serious right now! I-" Someone approaches and I shoot him five times in the chest. "Fuck! Can't you see I already have a lot to deal with?!" I yell at the corpse and turn back to the two glaring women.

"You need to calm down, Sammy. You'll pop a vein." Aunt Joyce says winking at me and I sigh. "We're just asking for a little fun here."

"Fine. I won't kill anymore." I say, holding my gun up in surrender before putting it back in the strap. "See? They are all yours. Speaking of, a group is coming up from the right." I point to the shadows approaching and the two women smile.

The six oblivious men are met with the opposite ends of kunai knives and samurai swords. Aunt Joyce slices the neck of the first while Amaris stabs the second through the heart. A few seconds later and the men are all sent to hell.

"Did you enjoy yourselves?" I ask and they both smile, pulling their blades from the dead bodies.

"Good. Let's mov-'' I'm abruptly cut off by an explosion close to the dock. The dock where Milo, Cassius, and Aiden are supposed to be.

"That's-" Amaris starts.

"Yeah. Let's go." I say but as I say those words, more shadows appear. Seriously? They keep coming like roaches.

"You go check it out. Amaris and I are going to deal with these guys. We'll cover you." Aunt Joyce says and before I can protest, they turn around and advance.

I run toward the dock, killing everyone I come in contact with, and rush towards the point of explosion.

"What?"

"What? What do you mean 'what'?! There was an explosion." I say to Milo who's looking at me with a stupid look on his face.

"Yeah, my bad. That was me." Cassius says raising his hand. "I got a little carried away."

"A little? Stop playing with fire and go kill the remaining men," Aiden says. Aiden has done his part. Amaris's dad is on his knees in front of Aiden with a gun to his head. The look on his face tells me it's taking everything in him to not pull that trigger.

"Where's his lover?" I ask and Amaris's dad goes to speak. Probably to say something like "if you touch her, I'll kill you." Very macho. Except, it would be more of a mumble since in addition to him being tied up, he's also gagged.

Aiden presses the gun harder into his head. "Aht aht. I told you already, not a word. If you want to plead for someone's life, you talk to Amaris."

"Wait, why are you here? Jerome didn't give the "OK'." Milo says sounding a bit confused and I wince.

"About that..."

"Let him go." Someone says, coming up behind me and putting a sword to my throat.

"Laila Yamamoto, I presume?" I ask.

"You presume correctly." She says pressing the blade in harder. This isn't good. We're all standing in between two large containers. Milo is standing next to Aiden and Laila is in their blind spot. My body blocks their view and any chance of them shooting her.

"Let him go or I slit his throat," Laila says a little loader this time. There's just one problem with her demand, these guys don't negotiate for anyone's life except Amaris'.

"Can't do that," Aiden says.

"He's a present for someone very special to us," Milo adds.

"Who?" Laila asks and before anyone can answer, the sound of scraping metal amplifiers as it gets closer.

The sound of whistling follows and I smile. "You'll get to meet her very soon."