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As Vlad speaks, a sense of foreboding snags my attention. I can sense Maxim’s anger and, worse, his determination. He’s considering the best way to retaliate against the man who aided our escape. That foreboding morphs into panic when I realize his next steps.
“Wait!” I explode, drawing everyone’s attention. “Olivia. Maxim’s going after her.”
“Who is Olivia?” Dixie asks.
“Levi’s sister,” Vladimir says. “Shit, I didn’t think he knew about her. This is my fault. Delphine’s right. Our reunion can wait. You need to find Olivia and bring her back here.”
CHAPTER NINE: DIXIE
Abra and Zip follow me out to the common room, where I find Levi behind the bar. He’s opening a beer for Lake.
“Where is your sister, Olivia?” I ask him.
Levi frowns, but answers without delay. “She’s at work. She’s a nurse practitioner at Omega Hospital. Why?”
“We think Maxim may go after her because you helped Delphine and her daughters. We’re going to go get her and bring her back here,” I explain.
“I’m coming, too,” Levi says, rushing around the bar to join us. “She won’t come unless I’m with you.”
I nod in agreement, because no woman with any sense would willingly go off with a group of strangers, especially bikers.
“Take an SUV. Here are the keys,” Zip says, handing him a set of keys.
Zip and I lead the way with Abra and Lake behind us. Levi brings up the rear. The hospital is twenty minutes away, but we make it in fifteen, because the fear in Delphine’s eyes told me we didn’t have time to waste. The plan is for Levi to go inside the hospital, find his sister, and convince her to come back to the clubhouse with us. However, that plan’s shot to shit when we arrive in time to see three men dragging a woman toward a waiting vehicle. I recognize two of them as ones who accompanied Maxim to our meeting the previous day.
Levi drives straight toward the group and barely puts it into park before he slams out of the SUV.
“Get your fucking hands off of her!” Levi yells as he races forward. The man who has his arm around Olivia’s waist pulls out a gun and shoots at Levi. I see the bullet hit his shoulder, slamming him into a 180 spin before dropping to the ground. The rest of us take out our weapons and aim them at the assholes as they slink backwards toward their vehicle. It looks to be a standoff, but Olivia takes us all by surprise.
She screams like a banshee when Levi goes down, but instead of crumbling, she comes out swinging. I grimace when her left fist pounds into the crotch of the asshole who shot her brother. When he buckles, she knocks the gun out of his hand before dropping to the ground and disappearing from view.
We advance on the three assholes, our guns aimed at their heads.
“Son of a bitch!” Maxim curses as he climbs out of the SUV. “How incompetent are you? You just had to grab one small woman! Get in the car, let’s go.” He turns to me. “We’re leaving. The girl and the boy are yours. But Hex still owes me that favor we discussed. If he doesn’t follow through, I’ll destroy him and his club. So far, I’ve held back, seeing as he’s my son. But that ends if he doesn’t do what I want. Tell him. I don’t normally deal with the skin trade, but his mother and sisters will fetch a handsome price.”
“Wrong thing to say,” I growl. “Delphine is mine. I’ll kill you before I let anything happen to her or her daughters.”
He smirks at me. “You’re courageous or stupid. Delphine is a dangerous woman. Ask her what happened to the father of her daughters.”
The sound of sirens breaks up our party. Maxim and his men duck into their SUV and drive off. I rush over to Levi where Lake and Olivia are patching up his wound.
“We need to take him inside,” Olivia says, her hand holding the bloody bandage against the wound.
“We can’t,” Lake says. “The cops will be here in a few minutes. We need to get to the clubhouse. I have everything we’ll need to remove the bullet.”
“Not a chance,” Olivia says, but stops when Levi squeezes her hand.
“Please, we need to go to the clubhouse. It’s the only place where you’ll be safe.”
Olivia glances at each of us as if searching for an ally, but she must see the resolve on each of our faces. She mutters as she removes the bandage and tears another strip of material off Levi’s shirt to press it against the still seeping wound. “Hold this tight. Let’s get you in the car so we can get going.”
Lake lifts Levi up in his arms and deposits him in the back of the SUV. He walks Olivia to the door of the SUV and helps her inside, even buckling her seatbelt. He says something to her, placing his hand over hers on the steering wheel. The sound of the sirens grows louder.
“Let’s go, the cops are almost here,” I yell out. Lake closes her door and hops on his bike. Zip and I take the lead and let Abra and Lake follow behind the SUV. I hope she stays with us. I’m not in the mood to hunt her down if she does a runner. However, she proves to be smart and follows us straight back to the clubhouse.
She’s out of the car as soon as she parks. Opening the back door, she lets Lake pick up her brother before following them inside. We follow as far as the common room where we find Hex, Delphine, and Vladimir waiting for us.
“What happened?” Hex asks.
