Bound to my Enemy novel Chapter 270

Chapter 270: Chapter 270.

The gun remains pressed against Elaine’s head while my finger tightens around my own weapon. Every muscle in my body is screaming at me to pull the trigge and end this right now but I can’t....not with Elaine standing there, not with our baby growing inside her.

One wrong move and everything is gone.

"Take one more step," Thomas says again. "I dare you."

His voice sounds almost unrecognizable now, broken and desperate.

Then movement catches my eye from the left and I immediately tense, only for Lucas to emerge from the trees.

For fuck’s sake.

A tired sigh leaves me.

"I told you to stay put, Lucas."

His head snaps toward me, even now, even in the middle of this nightmare. The man somehow finds time to look offended.

"You don’t tell me to stay put, Zane."

His voice is sharp.

"I’m not a fucking dog."

Under any other circumstance I would’ve told him to shut the fuck up. Instead I just stare at him.

Because right now I don’t have the energy, and I..... a voice cuts through the tension.

"Uhmmmm Guys... I don’t think now is the time."

Lucas and I both whip our heads toward the source. At exactly the same time and for a second I’m confused.

Because I’d been so focused on Elain, on the gun pointed to her head and on Thomas.

That I hadn’t really paid attention to the second figure standing nearby.

I knew someone was there, I ju just hadn’t looked properly.

The figure shifts slightly and Moonlight brushes across part of her face but it’s not enough, not enough to make anything clear.

I frown.

Who is she?

One of Thomas’s people? Another victim?

The woman takes another cautious step forward.

Then she speaks again.

"Lucas..."

And evverything stops.

Everything.

Lucas goes completely still beside me, like somebody just shot him and his face drains of all color as his eyes lock onto her.

"No."

The word leaves him in pu pure disbelief.

It looks like she crying and suddenly something twists painfully in my chest.

Because her voice, there’s something familiar about it...but it’s impossible.

"Lucas?" she whispers again and that voice.

Jesus Christ.

That voice.

My brain starts trying to place it, trying to force pieces together.

Memories, old conversations, arguments, laughter.

Memories of a little girl and me running through hallways, a littl girl stealing my food, a little girl driving everybody insane.

No.

No. That’s impossible.

Lucas takes a cautious step forward, then another, like he’s being pulled.

"Aria?"

The name barely leaves his mouth before the woman completely breaks. A sob escaping her and suddenly my entire world tilts.

No. No fucking way.

I finally see her properly, not clearly but enough. The shape of her face, her hair nd the way she stands.

And suddenly I can’t breathe.

"Hi, Lucas."

The words leave her through tears and I swear my heart stops.

Aria... My Aria.

The name echoes through my head, over and over again.

I stare at her, unable to move or to think, because standing there...Alive...Is my sister.

The sister I buried, the sister I mourned, the sister I spent years blaming myself for her death.

My knees nearly buckle.

"No..."

My voice sounds strange even to my own ears....its smal and broken

She turns toward me then and when our eyes meet.....i know, i absolutely know with no doubt or question that It’s her.

It’s really her.

"Big brother."

That voice.

God.....That voice.

My little sister’s voice....it sounds older now and different but still hers....still Aria.

And suddenly years of grief come crashing into me all at once. Every nightmare, every anniversary, every guilt-filled morning and sleepless night.

Everything.

I thought she was dead, I watched them lower an empty coffin into the ground. I spent years wishing I could trade places with her.

And now she’s standing right there.

Alive, breathing and Looking back at me.

Then she starts moving, towards Lucas, towards us and for one beautiful second I think maybe this nightmare is finally ending.

Then Thomas grabs her hard and yanks her back, the moment is shattered instantly.

Aria gasps as she’s yanked backward.

"Thomas!"

He ignores her completely, his face is twisted with fear now.

He drags her back against him, then suddenly releases Elaine. Elaine stumbles violently before crashing to the ground and my heart nearly explodes.

"Elaine!"

I move instinctively.....one step, that hat’s all I manage.

BANG!

The gunshot tears through the night, the sound echoing through the entire forest as birds explode from nearby trees and everybody freezes.

The smell of gunpowder fills the air and Thomas lowers the gun slowly after firing into the sky.

His hand is shaking now badly.

"Don’t."

His voice cracks.

"Don’t you fucking dare."

The barrel presses against Aria’s head now, not Elaine’s anymore.

Aria.

My sister....the sister I just got back.

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