𝐒𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐌𝐲 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧

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TIANA

My fingers trembled around the gun. My mind was still conscious of my surroundings as I ignored the shouts and gunfire happening all at once.

The gunfire was loud and men shouting at one another but it was all a blur to me. My only focus was my daughter.

I just wanted all of this to be over.

This sick game we were in was tiring and I wanted it all to end.

I was aware that I wasn't in the right mental state. It was still unbelievable that I killed someone. Took their life away without meaning to though he deserved it. I didn't want it to be me.

That was someone's life in my hands and the aftershocks were hitting hard. But not as hard as to lose focus on the goal.

I was going to get my daughter. No matter what.

My back on the nearest wall, I stay out of sight of the men. Some with faces I had never seen before. Who were they? Just as I stepped to move forward, the cold metal of a gun to the back of my head made me halt.

"Don't move, little Queen." A gruff voice meets my ears and a hold on my upper arm pulls me back. "Drop your gun." He demands with a firm voice.

My breath shakes as I thought quickly. I didn't want to give up the gun. I couldn't put it down, I needed it.

"Right now." He presses the steel further into my head.

I swallowed hard, my arms shaking uncontrollably. Slowly, I lean forward to place the gun down when gunfire bounces off the walls causing me to jump.

A heavyweight nearly consumes me when I am snatched out of the way in time to see the soon-to-be captor hit the ground with blood leaking from the hole in the center of his head. My head lifts and I nearly cry at the person in front of me.

"Baby-"

I don't let him finish. My arms are around him, locking around his neck for dear life. My quiet cries muffled against the skin of his tattooed neck. I missed him so much that it hurts. He sighs against me, molding our bodies together while burying his head into my hair.

"I'm so fucking sorry, baby. I didn't think about our rings." He mutters against me and I want to cry harder but we had to focus.

Our rings?

Carter put a tracker in the promise ring?

"It doesn't matter now." I sniffed, wiping my tears away as I pulled away from him. "H-He has her and I..." My voice trails as I look down at my bloody hands.

He noticed, a frown on his lips. Without hesitation, he grabs my hands, examining them for any injury.

"I-It's not mine." The sting in my heart hit me once again. "I didn't mean to. It was an accident."

"Fuck." He grits, his thumbs rubbing over my knuckles.

I shake my head. "Cariana can't be far."

"Tiana," His voice firm, the concern in them unmistakable as he comes to terms with what I've done.

"I will tell you the same thing I told Troy." I forced my voice to be stern and strong. "I'm not leaving this building until my baby is in my arms."

He makes a face, wanting to argue but my mind was made and it would be a waste of time to argue with me about it. Time wasn't on our side right now and I didn't know exactly where that girl took my baby girl but I wasn't going to stop looking for her.

"Are you sure?"

I once remember what he told me when he took a life and you'd never be the same. I forced those feelings away. Cariana was my focus right now.

"Yes."

The worry in his eyes doesn't fade but he nods, his fingers intertwined with mine, keeping me close to his side.

"Then let's go find our daughter."

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If you guys aren't already aware, there is less than ten chapters left for She's My Queen.

When I first started this series, I was just writing it along the way. It wasn't planned nor was it thought out fully. I was making up things as I went on and with you guys commenting, it encouraged me to continue to write.

-But let me explain why I want to start this series over (and it won't take as long as it did before).

-In the first book, I kept looking back and rereading different parts of my story that I was just not proud of writing. For example, Carter hits Tiana one time after kidnapping her in Italy. I know I mentioned it before but I'm saying it again. I WISHED I didn't write that. I do not support a man hitting a woman nor do I support a woman hitting a man. It is wrong and unacceptable on my part for writing it. I got the idea from a Mafia book that I've read and though it made sense to me at the time because there are different ways the Mafia world works, and it is a world of violence and crime, I just had to change.

-So after I am done with this second book and don't worry, it will most likely get a happy ending, my focus will be on the REMAKE (*Which is currently up to Chapter One).

-I WILL keep the old versions up so you can look back on it whenever you want to.

I have no other announcements other than to add the He's My Killer REMAKE to your libraries now. I promise you it is better planned out and I would love if you guys commented your thoughts on it after reading it.

-If you have any questions concerning the book or the series, don't hesitate to ask. I will answer them (without spoiling the new events of the story).

Reminder, the NEW version is a DARK ROMANCE (will be much darker than this book). You have been warned here and you'll be warned before you start the New version.

THANK YOU GUYS FOR SUPPORTING THE SERIES.