“Torin.” My face skews, not understanding what he’s saying. “He’s there.”
My heart literally stops because…that’s not funny.
“Matteohas him?—”
“No.” Ozzy cocks his head a bit to the side, stretching out the black ink of his neck tattoos. It’s like he’s—There’s no fucking way.
None.
“What are you saying to me right now?” I ask gently, though the slight pressure on his hand alludes I need the answer ASAP. “Where is he?”
“Safe.”
I shake my head. “That’snotsafe. You have Torin right under Matteo’s nose and—” I stop then because it dawns on me like a light bulb. “You’re all fucking crazy.”
It’s thelastplace Matteo would look.
His own territory.
If he was planning or attempting to get to Levi and Torin to finish them off, he wouldn’t look within his own damn borders.
He’d look here.
“You need to get him out of there.” I don’t like it. He needs to be around the Forsaken Crew and under close monitoring so he’s not gone again. “Ozzy…I’m fuckin’ serious.”
“Soon.”
That seems to be a trend around here.
The waiting game.
“Bay?”
“What?”
I see him swallow before I notice him pull some of his braveness from his chest and say with confidence, “I’m never leaving you.”
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torin
“Dude…”My voice is scratchy and dry, parched of all moisture as I stare over at Ozzy, who’s hovering over me like a fucking lunatic. I didn’t hear him come in, but I’ve been in and out for fuck knows how long from all the pain meds. Everything’s been a daze. “What are you doing here?”
“Bay.”
My gaze immediately darts around the room, searching for her beautiful blue eyes and long dark hair.
Then reality bitch-slaps me, and I remember where I am on her shit list.
Nonetheless, it still doesn’t stop the thought from forming. And it doesn’t mean I don’t want her here.
She’s not.
The four walls of ivory stand stoically as a greeting that we’re not where we used to be before. Bay and I are still beyond fucked.
And that’s the shit I came back to after several surgeries and some rando Nameless prick with a white ski mask telling me I was leaving soon.
I asked where the hell I was, he told me to fuck off, and I quickly realized I wasn’t getting shit until one of my boys came by. It didn’t take but two brain cells and I managed to get everything I needed to know.
