Chapters (45)
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Prologue
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- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- Thirty-Nine
- About the Author
Safa lashes out with her legs and trips the blond man with the piece of wood. He sprawls out over her as yet more rush in to kick and batter down at her. Men grab her arms. Others punch her face. Harry tries to rise but more men dive on top of him. The blond man gets up on to his knees and with a flash of pure spite he drives a fist down into Safa’s face with such force it hammers the back of her head into the concrete.
Ben goes in hard and low with his arms spread out to sweep them off Safa. They land in a heap of tangled limbs but he moves faster than they and rises to rain a barrage of punches on the blond man, driving his fists into his nose, eyes and mouth. The blond man fights back for a few seconds but his nose breaks, his jaw dislocates and his eye socket fractures. The blond man goes limp and suddenly unconscious as another man wrenches Ben away, sending him spinning across the floor. Safa rises to take him down, tripping him from behind and slamming a fist into the back of his head as he falls.
A fist hits Ben on the side of his face so he hits back. He gets hit again and he hits out again. Safa on the floor rolls from one before springing to her feet with eyes on the man coming at her. A sidestep and she drives the blade of her hand into his throat then spins behind him to slam vicious little punches into his kidneys.
Harry back on his feet with two men unconscious on the floor. Another one goes at him from the right but gets swatted away by a stinging backhand.
An arm comes round Ben’s throat from behind. Safa is punched hard but she rallies and drives a knee up into the stomach of the man that hit her. He sinks with a blast of air as she spins round, locks eyes on Ben being choked from behind and charges.
‘Drop your legs,’ she hisses. Ben does as told. Letting his body weight sink down, forcing the man to lower with him as Safa starts hitting the heels of her hands into the sides of his head, snapping it side to side. The man releases Ben, dropping him to the floor, where he twists on to his back and kicks up into the man’s groin as Safa keeps hitting him back and away. She goes like a demon but gets swarmed by men coming at her from the side. Ben rises quickly but two grab his arms. He tries kicking one away and gets his right hand free but someone hits him in the back of the head. He staggers forward, feeling the dizziness, then is ripped from his feet.