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I swung back around, not wanting to take my eyes off these fuckers for a second, to see Alvarez grab one of them by the throat and lift him until his feet dangled in the air. One sickening crunch and he just dropped the bastard to fall.
They didn’t deserve this. A vein in my temple pulsed as rage and regret filled me. They were killers…but they were nothing more than robots, trained from childhood to kill while they were useful, but ultimately to die. My gun felt heavy as I lifted it and fired at them again…so goddamn heavy.
They didn’t deserve this.
But we needed to survive.
I clenched my jaw, hatred seething inside me. Laz grabbed his bodyguard, pulled him upwards, then heaved him over his shoulder, stumbling at the weight. Fin was next, staggering toward them before he swung, firing his gun at the rest of the bastards as Tobias lunged to drive his fists into one, over and over, in a killing rage.
“Come for my family?” He raged, his eyes wide and wild. “I’LL SHOW YOU WHAT HAPPENS!”
Bang!
Bang!
Bang…bang…bang…bang.
Nick and Caleb still fired, one after the other, the sound ricocheting off the walls until it was all I heard. I was grabbed and pulled backwards. Panic roared until I found the familiar eyes of my brother.
“Let’s go!” he bellowed, firing a shot behind me.
But the Sons were leaving, slipping back behind the steel doors to leave us behind. I stumbled, then turned, to find Laz and Finley lurching along the alley toward us. Alvarez was driving three of the Sons backwards.
“You go.” I nodded to Fin, who cradled his arm and tried to stop the bleeding in his neck at the same goddamn time. “Get him back. We’ll follow you.”
There wasn’t time to acknowledge anything I said as Fin’s leg buckled and sent him crashing to the ground. Hunter lunged, grabbed Finley Salvatore, and all but carried him to his car.
“We need to go.” I turned to Alvarez and met that unflinching stare. He gave a nod, glanced over his shoulder to the place where we’d almost died, then started forward.
Headlights shone, blinding me as I reached the Explorer. The others pulled up hard, and London was the first one out, with his buddy, Baron, right behind him. It had been only a matter of minutes that we were in that alley with the Sons of The Order. But it felt like it had been a lifetime.
London raced around the front of the Audi. “Colt and Carven?”
I just shook my head. “I don’t know. It was…like nothing I’ve ever seen.”
There was a flare of panic in his eyes before he shifted his focus to the alley. Loyalty to his sons drove him forward. He lifted his gun and charged, heading back to the fucking deathtrap we’d barely escaped.
Alvarez stopped and turned to watch London and the diamond asshole disappear. I did the same as guilt and loyalty forced me to turn.
“Fuck,” I grunted.
Alvarez turned to me, and I knew he felt the same. We stumbled back into that alley, limping, bleeding, and cursing, jerking our weapons toward anything that moved. But there was nothing but bodies outside those false doors. London checked each one, before meeting my stare. “Where the fuck are my sons?”
I shook my head, trying to make sense of what had just happened. “They came out of nowhere. Carven…and Colt, they saved our asses, driving them backwards.” I lifted my gun to the door. “They’re in there. They’re all the way in there.”
London rose from the ground and moved closer, his hands moving over the door. “It’s steel.”
“All of them are.”
“There’s no way in?”
“Not unless you have a key.”
He turned around. “So you’re saying my sons are in there, fighting a goddamn army of trained killers by themselves?”
I froze, my pulse booming. “Yes.”
TWENTY-FIVE
