Love Until Death Do Us Part novel Chapter 3

Outside Rainbow Bar, Athena got out of her car and was heading towards the entrance when she caught some shifty movement in the alley.

In the narrow alley next to the bar, a bunch of lowlifes had cornered a little boy. The kid was cute as a button, with chubby cheeks pale as a steamed rice bun.-

Dressed in a simple white shirt and black dress pants, with handmade leather shoes that shone bright, he reeked of money. When the little boy had been snooping around the bar, those lowlifes zeroed in on him.

Payne Bradshaw's brow furrowed slightly; the stench coming off these guys was suffocating. He couldn't help but cough twice, his pale face as white as a sheet, with deep red blood vessels spidering through his lips like he'd coughed up blood.

"I don't have any cash on me. How about you kidnap me and call my daddy for a ransom?" Payne's childish voice rang out, his sickly cheeks contrasting with the brightness in his round eyes.

One of the men, "Call your mom to come alone and drop off the cash!"

"I don't have a mommy."

No sooner had Payne spoken than the clack of high heels on the concrete echoed through the alley.

Athena walked in to find her son Kevin surrounded by the lowlifes. She rolled up her sleeves, revealing her alabaster wrists.

"Kevin, stand behind Mommy so you don't get splattered with blood."

Athena picked up a steel pipe from the ground, weighed it in her hand, feeling its grip. She was just itching to let out her pent-up frustration and anger - these guys were in for it!

The alley filled with the sound of the pipe meeting flesh, and the shrieks that followed were pig-slaughter painful!

Payne's mouth formed an “o”, his eyes sparkling with the shine of stars. He'd sneaked out and stumbled upon a fairy!

In no time, the shouting stopped, and Athena emerged from the alley, striding out with Payne cradled in one arm.

Held in Athena's arms, Payne felt like he was floating on cloud nine. He lifted his tender little head, and her radiant, stunning face loomed larger in his view.

She was like a cool and kick-ass fairy godmother, drop-dead gorgeous! Payne couldn't help but rest his cheek against her shoulder.

Her scent filled his nostrils, and he murmured dreamily, "Mommy."

"Mr. Bradshaw got beaten up; oh boy, this is big trouble!"

Athena, holding her kid, walked towards the parking lot and overheard people just out of the bar gossiping.

"Which Mr. Bradshaw?"

"Zoey Bradshaw from the Bradshaw family in Everglade City. He was in the bar drinking, and got his head bashed in by a five-year-old kid! It was a frightful scene."

Athena's step faltered. Zoey was in the bar? She needed to find him and call off their absurd marriage. She opened the car door, put Payne in the back seat.

"Kevin, wait here for Mommy and don't run off again, okay?"

"You got it wrong."

Payne started to speak, but Athena had already shut the door and was walking away. Payne pressed his face to the window and saw a familiar black Maybach parked nearby.

Kent was manhandling a kid in a hold, flanked by bodyguards as they left the bar.

"Let me go! Let go!"