“I’m calling the police!”he shouts, trying to gain as much attention as possible.
“Call them,” I challenge.
A man in a white coat comes rushing over.
“Sir, we are going to have to ask you to leave if you aren’t on the approved list,” he tells Walter.
“But…but…”
“Call security,” Reaper says to the nurses’ station.“Or if you prefer, I can lead you out of here.”
Walter takes a step towards us, but looks me right in the eye, “Remember that you caused this.You did this to her and damned her to a life of suffering.”
A chill climbs all the way down my spine from his words.I saw the expression on his face as his mask slipped for a few seconds.Pure evil.This man is evil and dangerous and something doesn’t sit right with his words.
Stone steps right up into his face, towering over the false preacher.“I suggest you take that fake as fuck concern and shove it up your holy ass.Get out of here before you occupy a bed in this hospital.If I see you around here again, it’ll be the last thing you ever do in your sorry excuse of a life.”
That was the last we heard from Walter.Stone made sure to keep two people on Sutton until further notice.One is to be in the room at all times, and the other standing by the door, monitoring the people on the hospital’s burn unit floor.
Now a month later, Stone and Riot have forced me out of the hospital for several hours every day.I mostly spend it with Zane, but today they need my help at the auto shop with Reaper.For some reason, we’ve had a flood of cars and bikes that need work, so it’s becoming all hands on deck.With the colder weather coming in, most people want their bikes fixed up while they can’t ride them.I have to admit the reprieve from the hospital is nice since there’s nothing I can do but just sit and wait.Raegan is up there right now with Ivy.Ivy’s been here for almost a week.This is the first time she’s been able to break away from a fashion thing in Europe to come see Sutton and Raegan.
After our talk with Turner, Stone’s started construction on rebuilding the house.Rocky comes over and watches as the crew that Stone hired works.He wants it built just like what he and Sutton had put together.
I just finished putting new sparkplugs and belt on the car I was working on and drove it up to the front, ready for the customer to pick it up.
“Hand me that wrench,” I hear Reaper call out from under the truck he’s working on.
I’m taking a few minutes before starting on the next one in line, so I walk over to his station and grab the tool and place it in his outstretched hand.
“Thanks, brother,” he tells me.
Stone’s phone rings, echoing throughout the garage.
“Can someone grab that for me?”he yells from under the car he’s working on next to Reaper.
“Got it,” I say.When I reach for it, I see it’s from Rocky so I swipe to answer and place it on speaker phone, bending down so that he can hear his brother.“Hey, Rocky, you keeping those construction workers in?—”
“STONE, HELP!”we hear Rocky scream, and the garage goes deathly silent.The sound of scraping comes from all around the area as the guys rush over to where Stone’s at.In a split second, Stone is up from under the car and on his feet.
The panic in his voice sends a blanket of dread over my bones.
“What’s wrong, buddy?Talk to me,” Stone’s trying to stay calm, but the waver in his voice says otherwise.
“Sutton, come quick.I found her!I found her!”
We all look at each other confused because not two hours ago, I was just sitting down next to her at her bedside.
“Wait, wait a minute, buddy, slow down,” Stone tries to calm him, but we can’t understand all the words he’s saying because he’s trying to say too much at once.“Where are you?”
“I saw Sutton.They have her.She saw me and screamed for me to get help.She was yelling ‘butterfly’,” he says out of breath.The hairs on the back of my neck stand at attention, and I find myself leaning closer to the phone.
“Did you dream this, Rocky?Where are you right now?”Stone starts demanding, and I feel like I’ve been punched in my gut.
“I’m at the house, she’s here, they have her next?—”
The sound of gunshots ring through the phone, and in slow motion Stone fumbles the phone, and it falls to the concrete floor of the garage.
“Rocky!Rocky!Are you there?”Several brothers all reach to pick it up along with Stone.
