ari, be mine

xxxxxi

[ chapter 51 ]

january 2
12:01 a.m
bronx, new york

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"Baby!" Ari squealed, completely discarding the fact she shot my father in the heart when he was already dead. She ran over and had my two best friends help me out of my restraints.

"Damn, did they hurt you, sis?" Dean asked as he ran up behind them. I shook my head. "No. ." I rubbed my wrists as they were released. "They were waiting for y'all." His eyebrows furrowed. "Why?"

"They were gonna stun you all, lock you up, make you pay, and then force you to watch me die basically." All their eyes widened. "Then kill y'all after." I shook my head.

I stood up and stretched. Ariana instantly wrapped her arms around my neck and jumped. I held her legs around me with my hands and smiled up at her.

I analyzed her face. She seemed stressed but happy at the same time. Wide but tired eyes, soft, smooth lips and rosy cheeks. Her makeup was done, I assume she did it before she even knew I was kidnapped, and her hair was in her famous ponytail.

Here was the love of my life, my fiancée, the most beautiful woman on the planet, beside me again with this badass furrowed eyebrow look and a breathtaking smile.

"God, I missed you so much." I whispered before smashing my lips against hers. Ari kissed back in a passionate frenzy that moved faster than our brains could. My stomach was on fire and my heart raced. My body was tingling and all I could think about was how happy I was to be with her again.

"Um, guys I hate to break this up because it's beautiful, truly, but the police will be here any time now and we still need to find Astro." At the sound of my best friend's name, I detached our lips and pulled back.

"Sorry baby, later." She nodded and pecked me before getting down. I quickly moved to Calvin's body and searched through his pockets.

"What the hell are you doing?" Courtney asked, slightly horrified. I chuckled. "I overheard Calvin and Dame talk about where Astro's at and that Mr. Producer here has the keys to his door." I explained, but when I got no response I turned around to look at them.

They seemed to be listening to something else so I assumed they had someone else with them; talking through their earpieces. Then, Brian turned to me.

"Well, let's hurry up and get him out because the police will be here in around 10 minutes." My eyes widened while simultaneously my hands finally hit something metal. I smirked and pulled it out, blowing out a breath when I saw a keychain that only held two keys.

I stood up and nodded. "Then let's go."

We ran out and Brian threw me a Glock. I thanked him and we ran back down whatever hallway they just came out of. There were 2 doors along the way. The first one worked with the key, but no one was in there. The second one worked with the other key, but it was dark.

"Hello?. ." I spoke into the open air. I didn't hear anything back, but I was able to catch a little scuffle of a chair.

"He's in here!" I yelled to the others. They ran in and we started rubbing our hands on the walls to find a switch. Suddenly, the lights turned on and I whipped my head around. Ariana stood there with her hand on the switch, smiling innocently.