Folie à Duex

Chapter 18

I slowly opened the door and slid inside, I knew Skylar could see the door, and in grand movie fashion, I waited for her to signal me to attack.

"Katherine, I swear to you I'm going to kill you and your little boyfriend."

"Ace, I'll have Corvus call you back once we're done."

I waited for the phone to hang up before grabbing her father's shoulder and turning him around to a fist in the face. Before he could recoil from the punch, I grabbed his collar and flung him out of the room. Skylar quickly walked past me and kneeled beside him; she placed the gun to his head and then gestured me over, "I told you I wanted you to meet him, to know him. Corvus! Please introduce yourself to my father but, do so quickly. Ace just informed me that someone reported the crash and shots but luckily friends of his on the force are the ones responding to the call."

I smirked wickedly and walked over kneeling on the other side of him, "I am Corvus Le'Master. I'm your daughter's boyfriend."

She stood back up and walked back in front of the office door, "I see you found the others."

"Yeah, I did, I hope you didn't have anything planned for them."

"No, I was just going to let them burn alive. What are you doing with them?"

"They're going to watch as we beat your father, and then he's going to watch as they die, and then he'll die."

"Fucking wicked, I love it."

Skylar pulled the door closed behind her, then set the gun down on a table beside her. Her father stood up and took off his jacket before shoving the tables beside and behind him out of the way.

"I'm going to enjoy killing you two."

I smirk and handed Skylar my pick; she took it and looked over it, 'We are so going to talk about why your weapon of choice was a big ass sewing needle." She then sat the pick beside her gun. I took a step forward as she glided behind and around me to my opposite side. As she emerged from behind me, she rushed her father spearing into him; he quickly raised his arms probably about to drive his elbows into Sklyar's back but the incoming lariat from me caused him to drop his arms into a guard against it.

As I connected with him Skylar forced herself forward, driving and riding him to the floor, she then drove her elbow down into his heart before rolling over to a crouched position at my feet. As her father turned over and went to stand, I charged him and wrapped my arms around his waist as I sidestepped behind him. As he became airborne Skylar took the chance to jump off of the railing beside us, throwing her entire body across his and slamming him to the floor with me. Although he didn't recover as fast as he did from the first attack he did recover, and pulled a decently-sized knife from the back of his waist.

I tapped Skylar's arm, "Did you know he had that?"

"No, or I would have taken it."

I nodded slightly and quickly pulled my belt off. Her father lunged forward, wildly swinging the knife at us. As he swung into an opening, I whipped him across the face with the belt buckle before stepping in and isolating the arm with the knife, I saw Skylar stepping in again and held him up for her spinning back kick to his stomach. As he bent over, I snatched the knife from his hand with the belt around his arm and followed up with a quick two-hit combination, the first shot was a single knuckle strike to the shoulder of the arm with the knife and the second was a kidney shot leaving him hunched over. Skylar took advantage of the opening with a basement dropkick to the side of his head. He recoiled to the side and followed through, trying to grab Skylar; this little minx gracefully evaded his hand, caught his wrist, and spun under his arm. As she twisted his arm bending him back over, she kicked him in the face back into me, I caught him and dropped him on the back of his neck. While he was down Skylar kicked the knife off the edge just before he grabbed her ankle, I quickly stepped over him locking his head under my arm and cranking back while nodding at her.

She immediately snatched away from him and then kicked him in the chest, she waved her hand signaling me to move as she took my place locking his arms over her thighs, her arms around his neck, and cranking back on it.

I turned and looked at Philip, "I know I said she would be the one to do this but, she's a bit preoccupied!"

I pulled out the detonator and triggered the explosives, as soon as they went off the lighting rig fell from the ceiling and crashed into the ground. Immediately the fire erupted and moments after the screams filled the club.

Skylar's father managed to roll over and throw her off before getting to his feet, he charged me and forced my back into the railing, trying to flip me over the rail; before he could even attempt to go for my legs over Skylar ran into him, shoving him off. He grabbed hold of her neck and flung her over the railing; she managed to grab the railing but pointed one of her hands at him like a finger gun. Just as she flexed her thumb my fist connected with her father's head, I shoved him back into the office door and proceeded to riddle his body with rapid punches.

Skylar managed to climb back up and get behind me, "I'm behind you!"

I crouched down and wrapped my arms around the back of his knees, as I lifted him and went falling backward, Skylar leaped up and grabs his head slamming it to the floor again. I couldn't tell if this was Skylar, Scarlett, or a supercharged combination of both but, I watched as she or they snatched him up to his feet and threw him back against the railing. The combination of body shots and head shots was astonishing to watch. Years and years of anger, rage, hatred, and malice must have come out and been fueling their punches. I swear I could see the shockwaves of each fast yet meticulous and brutal strike.

I had to step back as she leaped into the air once more and drove both feet into him once more, the impact of the hit cracked the railing and sent her backward. She rolled back and stood up with her gun somehow now in her hand and did not hesitate to fire the single round into his head. The impact caused him to spring back against the railing and before he could fall over, she sprung into the air once more and drove a single leg into his face, breaking the railings and sending him down into the flames. I rushed under her and caught her, helping her land safely just as stepped forward to the edge, she was shaking with anger and crouched slightly just as she began screaming into the flames.

"God fucking damn it!"

"Sky what's wrong?!"

"I couldn't think of a post-kill one-liner!"

I threw my hands up and pulled her away from the edge as the roof above the rig caved in and caused a secondary explosion, "We got to go!"

She grabbed her gun and ran back into the office, pulling me along with her, I grabbed my pick and followed her into the passage and out of the club. When we reached the alley, we were met by a certain detective with her gun drawn and aimed at us.

"You two must be Skylar and Corvus."

"Yeah..."

"I was told I might find you two here, you wouldn't happen to know anything about this fire, would you?"

"My father crashed his truck into the club."

"So, that's who's truck that is in the front?"

We nodded slowly.

I stepped forward and slowly hid Skylar behind me then carefully moved my hand back above my head. "Are you going to arrest me for being in my place of work?"

"I can't arrest someone I never saw."

We looked at the detective who smiled at us and put her gun away, "While I am trying to figure out what those Brothers are up to, a certain acquaintance of mine made me promise not to involve you two in particular. Now that explosion will draw other cops, so you two need to get out of here now."

She smirked and threw me a pair of keys, then pointed down the alleyway to a car waiting for us.

She stepped aside and went out of the alley in the opposite direction she sent us. Skylar and I made it to the car, jumped in, and took off making our way back to my house.

Did we hear her correctly, it sounded like she said an acquaintance told her.

Ace and King.