“I don’t think so. I know so. It’s over for you and your gang.”
He growled. “We are not a gang.”
“Oh, really?” I asked as I took a step closer to him. “Then, maybe you and your boys should stop acting like one.”
One of his men spat on me and I turned on a dime, ready to blow that motherfucker’s brains out. But before I could even draw my weapon, Bullet held his hand up.
Stopping his men in their tracks.
“Well, that’s new,” Reaper murmured in my earpiece.
“Enough,” Bullet said.
I nodded. “At least we agree on something.”
“Tell me,” Bullet said as he slid his hands into his pockets, “what were you expecting to accomplish here tonight?”
“Be careful,” Angel whispered, “I don’t like the sound of this.”
“Me, neither,” Viper said.
I heeded their warnings and sharpened my peripheral vision. “I’m here to stop the women you’re about to bring onto land. Their lives are not yours to own or control. Twin Bays is better than the shit you’re bringing onto its soil, and I won’t allow any of you to further taint my town.”
“Oh,yourtown, huh?” Bullet asked.
“Yes. My town.”
“Pride.”
I snarled at the man that walked up to me. “Tell me I can put a bullet in his brain now.”
Bullet chuckled. “No. I’d like to show him our surprise.”
“Oh, boy,” Reaper murmured.
“Ready when you are,” Angel said.
“Fangs? Give us something,” Viper hissed.
But I didn’t give them the cue. “A surprise? For me? You honestly shouldn’t have.”
“Oh, you just wait,” Bullet said.
He looked damn near ready to jump out of his skin with happiness, and that alone made my skin crawl. What in the fuck did he have that we didn’t know about? What part of our recon had failed?
Nothing could have prepared me for what happened next, though.
Absolutely nothing.
“No!” a familiar voice exclaimed.
“Come here,” a growling voice commanded.
I froze as I watched Bullet’s man yank a woman out of the shipping container.
“Julia?” I asked.
“Shit,” Bender hissed. “Plan B. Plan B, now.”
