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Sadie! Priest ran to the source of the sound and found Mason and Sadie on the floor. Rage filled him as he saw Mason had his fingers around Sadie’s neck.
Blood gushed from Mason’s left pant leg. Someone had shot him in the leg, probably Sadie. Pride and anger filled him as he ripped Mason off his woman. He shoved Mason against the closest wall.
Mason looked at him angrily, then fear filled his eyes when Priest pulled out his gun while keeping him pinned to the wall. There was no recognition in Mason’s eyes, although he and his family used to frequent Sunday service during the days he was assigned at St. Patrick’s.
“Priest, watch out!” Sadie yelled.
A security guard appeared with a gun pointed at Priest. Priest had to let go of Mason and ducked just in time. The sound of gunfire echoed through the room as bullets whizzed past.
“Sadie, get down!” he yelled, hoping she heard him through the noise and chaos. He heard a body drop to the ground and hoped it was Sadie.
Priest quickly took cover behind a nearby piece of furniture, returning fire at the security guard. A loud thump echoed through the room. Peering out cautiously, Priest saw the guard lying on the floor, incapacitated. However, Sadie and Mason were nowhere in sight.
Cursing under his breath, Priest desperately scanned the space for signs of their departure. Spotting droplets of blood on the floor, he remembered Mason’s gunshot wound in his leg and followed the trail.
As he moved through the hallways, he passed the lifeless bodies of the guards. In the chaos, he bumped into Shadow and urgently asked if he had seen Mason and Sadie. Shadow, overwhelmed by the situation, apologized and said he hadn’t seen them.
Determined, Priest continued to follow the trail of blood, leading him to the backyard.
Priest found Mason holding Sadie at gunpoint, and he froze in his tracks. Fear he’d never known filled him to the core. It couldn’t end this way. Sadie and him had just found their way back to each other after all these years. They had a future planned. Priest intended on making Sadie his old lady, getting a house together, and maybe even having little ones down the line.
“Put the gun down, tough guy,” Mason threatened, his eyes narrowing.
Sadie shook her head at Priest, silently urging him not to comply. Their gazes locked, the unspoken understanding passing between them. Reluctantly, Priest lowered his weapon. In that tense moment, Mason swiftly turned the gun on Priest. However, before he could make a move, Sadie seized the opportunity. With a swift and well-aimed kick at Mason’s injured leg, he gasped, momentarily loosening his hold on her.
Taking advantage of the distraction, Sadie dropped to the ground just as Priest, quick on his feet, scooped his gun back up and fired. He didn’t miss. The bullet went through Mason’s skull and he toppled over.
Relieved, Sadie got up from the ground and rushed over to Priest. She sobbed against his chest while Priest stroked her hair, offering comfort and reassurance.
“Everything’s all right now,” he whispered to her, planting tender kisses on her forehead.
As they clung to each other, Priest’s gaze shifted to the lifeless body a few feet away, an elderly man in an expensive suit with features resembling Mason. It seemed the mayor had also been caught in the crossfire earlier. Good. They wouldn’t need to worry about Mason or his father causing any more trouble.
“Emery!” Sadie suddenly exclaimed, parting from Priest.
“We’ll find him. My MC brothers are searching the house,” he assured Sadie.
They headed back inside. After a thorough search, they eventually found Shadow and Emery in one piece, albeit bruised, near each other.
Sadie rushed up to her cousin, and the two embraced tightly. Priest caught Rage’s gaze across the room and they exchanged nods.
It seemed like it was all in a good day’s work for the MC, though he planned on sitting Sadie down and giving her a lecture about being more careful and less reckless. However, that could be reserved for later, Priest decided, as Sadie parted from her cousin and gave him a warm smile.
Chapter Nine
By the time they returned to the MC clubhouse, Sadie had dozed off behind him. Priest shook her gently awake.
“We’re here already?” Sadie asked, dismounting from his motorcycle. She handed her helmet back to him and rubbed at her eyes.
“We’re home,” Priest confirmed, kissing her on the mouth.
“Emery?” she asked him.
“Shadow took him to Hanging Grove Medical. We’ll see him first thing in the morning,” he told her.
“Good,” she said, sounding relieved.
He led her by the hand back to their quarters, because Sadie looked ready to fall asleep on her feet.
