Bound to my Enemy novel Chapter 271

Chapter 271: Chapter 271.

Elaine’s POV

I can’t let this continue, i just can’t.

My eyes move from face to face.

Zane, lucas, Aria and Thomas.

Every single person standing here is seconds away from making a decision they’ll regret for the rest of their lives.

I can see it, feel it. The tension is so thick it feels almost impossible to breathe.

Thomas is unraveling, Zane is hanging on by a thread and Lucas looks one wrong word away from launching himself across the clearing.

And all around us are armed security men with fingers dangerously close to triggers.

One mistake, one sudden movement and somebody dies.

The thought makes me feel sick.

No. Not tonight....i refuse.

I’ve lost too many people already.

Margaret, my parents...the years Aria lost.

Everything Thomas became.

I can’t stand here and watch another tragedy unfold. Especially not when my family is finally together again.

My hand unconsciously drifts to my stomach.

The baby.

God.

I need to get us out of this....all of us.

Thomas is still talking, still staring at Zane completely trapped in the weight of his own confession. For the first time since this started, he isn’t paying attention to me and that’s when the idea comes.

A terrible and reckless idea.

The kind of idea that would make Zane lose his mind if he knew what I was thinking. Which is exactly why I don’t give myself time to think.

Because if I do...i won’t do it. Slowly and Carefully, i take a step.

Nobody notices as i take a step....Thomas is too focused on Zane, too focused on the past and on the pain he’s carried for years.

I move again.

My pulse is hammering so hard I can hear it in my ears.

Please work.

Please. Please....i just need to get a little closer.

The gun is still in his hand, still pointed generally toward Aria.

I swallow and take one more step.

Then another.

I hear Aria saying something, hear Lucas respond and Zane speaking.

But the words blur together.....My entire focus narrows to one thing.

The gun.

Just get the gun. That’s it.

Then this can end, nobody has to die....maybe we’ll Thomas can die, ion give a rats shit about him anymore, he’s hurt me and my family enough.

I’m close enough now, clse enough to see the slight tremor in Thomas’s hand, close enough to smell the smoke lingering from the warning shot he fired, close enough to do something.

So I do.

I lunge.

"ELAINE!" 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Zane’s voice explodes across the clearing....too late.

My arms wrap around Thomas from behind.

One hand grabbing for his wrist, the one holding the gun. Cor a split second he freezes, completely shocked.

"What the....."

Then chaos erupts as Thomas twists violently, the gun jerks.

I cling to his arm with everything I have.

"LET GO!"

"No!"

The world becomes a blur of movement.

Branches, shouting, hands and Bodies. Everything happening so fast and slow at the same time.

Thomas tries to rip free but I hold on so he stumbles backward and I stumble with him.

The gun swings wildly between us, somewhere nearby I hear Aria scream and Zane shouting with Security moving.

But none of it feels real, only the struggle.

"Elaine, stop!"

"No!"

I tighten my grip, till my fingers ache and my arms burn but I refuse to let go, not now.

Thomas suddenly slams backward, the impact nearly knocks the breath from my lungs as pain shoots through my shoulder still I don’t release him.

I grab harder.

Both of us desperately fighting for control of the weapon.

His breathing becomes ragged.

Mine too.

"You’re going to get hurt!"

"Then drop the gun!"

His elbow catches my side.

I gasp and my grip slips slightly.

But slightly is enough.

The gun jerks upward, then sideways. Neither of us fully controlling it anymore.

Just fighting and pulling desperate.

I hear footsteps charging toward us.

Zane. He’s coming, I know he is.

Thomas knows it too and for one split second his attention flickers away from me.

Toward Zane and that’s when I make my move.i grab his wrist with both hands and yank down with everything I have.

The gun goes off, the sound is deafening....a single violent crack then silence.

For one horrible moment I don’t understand what happened as wverything stops and slows.

Thomas freezes and I freeze too cause My ears ring, my heart pounds and then a strange warmth spreads through my side.

Confusion washes over me until I look down then I see it and my breath catches.

"Oh."

The word leaves me softly, almost stupidly, like my brain can’t quite process it.

Across from me Thomas’s face loses all color, completely. His eyes widen, horror replacing every other emotion.

"Elaine..."

The gun slips from his hand and hits the ground.

Nobody moves or even dares to breathe.

Then I hear the most terrifying sound I’ve ever heard.

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