If I spilled the beans on her, she wouldn’t be safe and I would be as good as dead because I would mutilate anyone who dared to touch her.
“Let’s get this over with,” I said, pulling my shirt sleeve up and giving them my arm.
Shae
I moved behind Viper as we ran through the treeline outside the Wolves territory. We’d left our bikes up the way a bit, hidden by darkness. Viper was leading us toward the compound, a large party making our impending war zone easy to infiltrate. I kept a gun at the ready as I kept low, waiting for the signal. Rebel was with us, and I trusted him well enough. My mind drifted to Dempsey and the men he was left with. I knew it was dangerous to do this, but I couldn’t help it.
They didn’t look good, and I knew he’d been running from Outlaws too.
What if they did something to him?
“Val?”
I looked up at Viper as he hovered nearby.
“You good?”
I nodded. “Yeah. Are we ready?”
He hesitated before he nodded and he issued a signal for me to take the side entrance. I nodded quickly as I searched for the best way to get there. Rebel grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and led me down a path, hidden from view. A few of the nomads were heading for the gate to make a distraction. Viper was on the other side of the gate with his back up.
The blood was rushing in my ears as we kept to the boundary, and Rebel cut through the wire fence enoughfor us to crawl through. He helped me up once I got underneath, some of the sharp metal digging into my skin, but I could worry about that later. Rebel helped me to my feet and we kept an eye out, our guns raised as we headed to the side entrance. No one was around, they were all inside or out the back at what I could only assume was a massive bonfire. I knew they did that at the Wolves quite a lot, but it only helped us to sneak up on them.
Rebel checked his watch and I saw that we were two minutes out. The others would be at the Reapers and they’d take them down at the same time. We just had to stay hidden.
Two minutes felt like a fucking lifetime as we waited with baited breath for the minutes to tick over. I kept an eye out for anyone who may happen upon us. The distraction at the gate was getting louder, causing more people to come out and look. Rebel signalled for me to stay put. They must have imagined this would have happened, surely. They’d have a plan for the clubhouse emptying.
I noticed the Wolves had started to move the women out to the bonfire. Had they been tipped off?
Rebel was typing on his phone furiously and he shoved it in front of me. I looked down at what he’d written.
They do this when there is a fuss at the gate. Don’t worry.
I nodded and he put his phone away. I saw the time then. I watched as chaos erupted around me and started to shoot to wound the Wolves as they came running for my brothers in arms. I couldn’t stay focused on one thing, everyone was running and fires were burning everywhere around me. Rebel was yelling at me to get to the gate. He and Viper were in the clubhouse, guns were firing, screams were heard all around. I ran for the gate where I could see the Nomads were battling with the Wolves. I shot at as many Wolves cuts as possible, mowing them down as quickly as I could. Everyone was shouting all around, my senses were heightened and my head was finding it hard to keep up.
Rebel came bounding down toward me. The scenes around us were chaotic, and I saw the fire in the clubhouse burning out of control. It was going to blow…they would have as much liquor in their clubhouse as we did in ours.
“We gotta go, Val!” He yelled as he started to run. Viper and the others were all running, as were the Wolves and their members, all cottoning on that this was nowhere to be right now. I took off, shooting others to keep out of my way. My feet were pounding the pavement in the middle of the night as I headed back to my bike.
Screams permeated the air just as a loud boom had me lunging forward and throwing myself into the bushes. Scratched to all hell, I pulled myself up when I couldn’t hear anything else. Looking around, I noticed people running but I didn’t see any of our cuts.
Where the hell were the boys?
I pulled my phone out of my pockets but my hands were shaking so much that it fell to the ground. I bent down to retrieve it, only to see a big black boot come from the shadows and tread on my device, smashing it to pieces.
Looking up, annoyed, I gasped when I saw who stood before me.
Fuck.
“Flynn.”
His cocky, devious grin had my nerves on edge just as I felt something hit me from behind. I fell to the ground, everything turning black.
SIX
Dempsey
My throat was itchy, my head pounded and my arm ached. All three of those symptoms were due to the goddamn injection. I knew it all too well. Opening my eyes, I found myself in church, alone, my head on the table.
