ILARIA (book 3)

29. ASAHI

Doing my cases in areas I know Ilaria will be in fills me with anxiety. What if she's in the building and accidentally gets caught in a crossfire? What if it's her family starting it.

It stresses me out.

Dad looks at me. "What's on your mind?"

"Nothing." I sit up straighter, SWAT uniform on. "Do I actually have to wear this?"

"Yes." He's not even wearing a bulletproof vest. "Youre distracted."

"I'm just tired." I lie.

"Hm, sure. Nothing to do with the fact we're about to raid a Reign owned business?"

"Nope. Nothing." I stare out of the window .

He just laughs. "Sure thing, kid."

We park up outside and run out immediately. I take my stand. The FBI announce their whereabouts and like expected, bullets shoot from inside of the building.

So we make our way in.

Shoot everybody with guns, weapons or hostages.

That's our protocol.

I follow it.

I was relieved whenever there was no women in here, mainly because that means no Ilaria.

But then I'm walking out of the building and I spot her standing by the SWAT truck, chunky heels on and the shortest skirt I had ever seen anyone wear.

Before I get the chance to even walk up to her. The agent on the team, Avery, walks up and pins her to the car with force. "Florek!" I raise my voice.

Avery ignores me, shoving Ilaria's head into the car. Ilaria did not look one bit bothered though.

"Gonna wish you never did that, you ginger bitch." Ilaria says.

"You threaten me, Miss. Reign?"

Ilaria narrows her eyes. "Ti ucciderò, stronza."

"English." Avery pushes her face further into the car as she cuffs her.

Ilaria just laughs, standing up tall and glancing at me. "Get your colleague under control before she loses her job, Hamada."

"Avery!" I grab her arm. "The fuck are you doing."

"I have reason to believe your little fuck buddy was there." She pushes me. "Let me do my job." She gets in the car, alone, and drives off.

Which is extremely against protocol.

"Dad. Avery Florek just drove off with Ilaria in the back of her car. Arrested her."

Dad even frowns.

Ilaria wasn't inside the building and we have no reason to arrest her.

"What? Get the tech to track the car." He radios in. "Avery you better park up immediately and wait for me to come to you."

There was no response.

Dad shakes his head. "Brent and Jude, you two with me."

"What?" I sigh. "That's not fair."

"You stay with the newbie and show her what to do." He gets in the car.

I roll my eyes, looking at Michelle. "We literally now just wait her until CSI show up."

We help the police out but it took forever for CSI to show up. After 4 hours, I was finally able to leave.

SWAT take us back to the centre, and we leave to get to the station.