“All right, then hold on tight.”
Julia shook her head. “What are you doing? Don’t do that. Wait!”
I picked her sister up and tossed her over my shoulder. She was dead fucking weight as far as I was concerned, and if we had any hope of dodging the small army headed our way, I couldn’t wait around for her to make a decision with her life. I took Julia’s hand, even though she tried pulling away from me. I yanked her up from the floor barreled down the hallway.
“You’re a madman,” she said as she panted for air.
I nodded. “And you were telling the truth. So, don’t make a dishonest woman out of yourself now. Let’s get out of here while we still can.”
Electricity sizzled up my arm the second she clamped her fingers around my hand. Feeling her hang onto me stopped my heart in my chest, but I ignored the sensation. I pushed us onward, ducking into rooms when we needed to be concealed and doing my best to find ways to get us out of that fucking place without putting more bullets into more men that deserved to die, as far as I was concerned.
These girls had seen enough bloodshed for one lifetime.
And I sure as hell didn’t have to add to it.
“Is that—” Julia asked.
I lunged forward as I broke out into a run. “The front door? It fucking is.”
The second we burst out into the world, I drew in the deepest inhale of fresh air I’d ever taken in my entire life. It washed away the stench of that decrepit basement and shoved the smell of death and blood from my shoulders. Theresa groaned in pain as I released Julia’s hand because I knew she wouldn’t take off without her sister. I fumbled with the keys as my head darted around on a swivel, trying to find the vehicle that I knew they went to. They weren’t bike keys, and they sure as hell weren’t warehouse keys. Which meant there was only one other vehicle that they used that the keys could have belonged to.
And when I laid my sights on the white van covered in foliage toward the edge of the property, I took off.
“Wait up!” Julia exclaimed.
“Hurry,” I said as I held onto the keys tightly. “We have to get out of here before they find us outside.”
Men yelled and popped off bullets inside of the warehouse as we reached the van. It took me a few tries to find the key to the back doors, but once I did, I shoved both of the women back there. I placed my finger to my lips, watching them hold onto one another in terror-filled silence. And after slamming the doors closed, I rushed around to the driver’s side.
Before I fumbled around with the keys to try and find the one that unlocked the damn side door.
“Come on,” I grumbled.
Another throng of bullets popped off, and they seemed closer than before.
“Get us the hell out of here, Fangs!” Julia bellowed.
I finally got the door unlocked and stood up long enough to shove the keys into the ignition. “As you wish.”
Then, I pulled myself up behind the wheel, turned over the engine, and put the pedal to the metal.
Soaring us out of the bushes and onto the gravel road that led right to the open, motherfucking highway.
8
JULIA
“Oh, God,” Theresa groaned as we leaned to the left.
I smoothed my hand over her sweating forehead. “It’s okay, just big, deep breaths.”
Then, we leaned to the right. “I think I’m gonna be sick.”
I held my sister in my lap and tucked her head beneath my chin. “Just a little while longer, and then we can get you to see a doctor. Okay?”
She sniffled. “It hurts. It hurts so bad.”
I kissed the top of her head. “What does, Tee? What hurts?”
