Bounty Hunter [REWRITTEN VERSION]

Chapter 55: Kill & Live, Don't & Die

ALEC

Alec was brought to the main part of the warehouse he recognized they had first come through.

This isn't good.

Maize was there, tied down to a chair. Meanwhile the man with the scarred face stood a little ways away, observing as he was brought in.

Immediately Alec found her eye, and for a moment his footsteps stopped. Everything Kishan had told him suddenly surfaced to the front of his mind.

Was it true?

Could it be true?

Somehow, none of that mattered to him at that moment, because he was more focused on her. He could tell just from the look on her face, she had no idea why he was suddenly brought here, but she didn't like it. It most definitely couldn't mean anything good—that much, he was certain.

Their two gazes were locked for a moment too short before Kishan jammed the barrel of his held gun into his back, reminding Alec that he was being led at gun point, by the man he once thought was a close friend.

Maize was shooting a murderous look over his shoulder, past him at the individual—Kishan's true intentions were no longer a secret to anyone.

He merely chuckled lowly before making a comment close to Alec's ear about not sharing their final goodbyes quite yet.

"Kishan you...you bastard!" Maize yelled at him, the tense twitching of her hands still bound to the arms of her chair and the glowering set look in her eyes made it clear that had she been free, she had every intent to strangle him for what he had done.

"Not so fast pretty thing," Kishan chimed before Alec felt the jab of Kishan's gun barrel push into his side, visible enough for Maize to see and get the idea that he was getting across.

That bastard! Alec cursed, but he couldn't move.

Maize had turned and was now looking at the figure. "Let him go, Azeal, both of them...they have nothing to do with this," Maize said.

So his name was Azeal.

"You think simply demanding it will make me release them?" he raised an eyebrow at her mockingly.

"No, but I never before pegged you as the cowardice type and I would hate for you to give me a reason to now," she responded and the smile ever so slightly dropped from his face. "Do what you want with me but leaver the outer parties out of it," she said forcefully and Alec jerked.

"Maize don't you freaking dare—" he started to say before his words were cut off in a tight grimace as the pistol held at his back prodded a sharp edge into his skin. He threw another look back at Kishan, who merely smiled un guiltily back.

Azeal studied her for several long moments before he closed his eyes and sighed.

"Still so naive."

Pale glinting eyes opened once more and he shot her a downward pointed look. "Your opinion means nothing to me. You had to have known; the moment I caught you all not all of you would be walking out of this alive."