Deceptive Trust

Chapter Twenty Nine

Yep! Right. A fucking shooting range. Perfect for my frustrations.

We walk around the trees and I can see how dense they are up close. With these many trees and being away from people, no one can take notice of some weird bang voice coming from someplace.

It's even colder here that I have to zip up my jacket to my neck. The more we continue to walk, the further apart the trees seem to be from each other until I see an opening not too far from where we are standing. When we get to it, I see targets already placed in position. One close as they move further and further away, the distance increasing from the last. Natalia hands me a gun as both she and Anna hold their own in their hands.

"It's already loaded," she informs me as I turn the gun in my hand feeling the heft of it.

I lift my arms and place my feet slightly apart just like Cole taught me and raise my arms, relaxing my shoulders back and removing all the tension in me as I close one eye, aim for the nearest target, and fire. The force does not throw me back like it used to the first time I fired a gun. I lower the gun to take a look at the target.

Bullseye.

"A natural I see. Nice. At least now Sebastian has a bit of competition and he can stop bragging about being the second-best hitman after Zack." Natalia says and I already hear the scoff in that statement. Anna chuckles raising her arm to aim and firing her bullet hitting the target but straying a little farther away from it.

"You are not so bad yourself," I comment as I look at it.

"I'm no good with guns. Knives are my forte. I could strike well with it and won't miss my target while Nats here, hers is combat. She is one hell of a fighter." Anna exclaims nodding at Natalia to have a go.

Natalia takes her stance aiming at it and fires. Her bullet lands a few inches away from the red center bullseye.

"Mmh, I can see but you guys are pretty good. If you were to shoot someone at least they would hit the body and not miss any part of him rendering him or her in pain or unable to function one part of their body. I say nodding at the target where their bullets landed.

"Yeah, it is good for that, but I would rather stick to my combat and feminine self," Natalia flickers her hair making Anna scoff at her.

"Don't you scoff at me missy? You and I both know I could take down a man easily and rip information out of them. Just a simple finger down their chest and they would be putty under my fingers," she purrs the last part making me hum in response trying to stifle a laugh while Anna makes a funny face at her.

"Yeah honey, sure. Whatever you say," Anna agrees and they sidestep allowing me to proceed and shoot. I take my stance and pull the trigger. I only manage to get two more targets when I hear someone walk closer to us.

I stop and turn around hiding the gun behind my back as I hear the sound of footsteps coming closer. My mind races not knowing who it is. Maybe it's Sebastian or the guards or maybe even Zack. He doesn't know that I am out of my room. He never really came in there except for that one time that he came and kissed me and when I thought it meant something, it turned out that he was just using me. My grip on the revolver tightened as anger bubbled inside of me yet again. But I said one thing, I was never going to let him come as close as he did the last time. He showed me just what I was in here and the message was delivered loud and clear.

As the footsteps get closer, they sound light, which means that it is not a man that was coming towards us and that is when I see blonde hair and a jacket. It is Emily. She was wearing a black jacket and boots with a tray in hand. She comes over and stands next to us. I can already tell she prefers the inside rather than the outside.