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14
Gage
Chaos eruptsat the end of that gunshot.
The woman who was sucking Cyrus off screams, a high, terrified sound, and she jerks back and scrambles away from the now dead man. There are flecks of his blood in her blonde hair, and dotting her bare shoulders, and she looks horrified.
Cyrus’s guards finally snap to action, yelling and pulling their own weapons to fire on Apollo and his crew. Apollo’s men fire back.
It only takes a few gunshots before people start to realize something is going down. They start running from the bar and the dance floor, crowding and stampeding as they flee toward the exits.
People are running and screaming, trying to get out, and it’s a mess. A mess we need to slip out in.
I don’t wait to see if Apollo lives or dies in the fight, or even what else goes down here. The part we needed to happen—Cyrus getting killed—is done. Nothing else really matters.
“That’s our cue,” I tell the guys, raising my voice just enough to be heard over the screaming and the music. I grab River’s arm and drag her away from the bar, shoving my way through the crowd so we can get to the doors.
Knox and Priest take up on either side, and Ash guards our back. The five of us move like a unit, shuffling people out of our way so we can get through the crush of people faster.
Now that we know Cyrus is dead, I just want to get River out of here in one piece.
It takes a bit, but we make it through the chaos and out of the club. It’s immediately quieter, and I can hear myself think again. But there’s no time to stand around enjoying the night air.
We hustle down to the parking garage and get into the car, driving off.
I’m back in the driver’s seat, and everyone’s quiet as I take us away from the club. I can feel some of the tension finally bleeding out of my shoulders, and that’s echoed by the tension leaving the car as I drive. We’re all less tightly wound than we were before, now that we know the plan worked.
I let out a slow, controlled breath, and glance into the rearview mirror to get a glimpse of River.
She’s in her usual spot, between Ash and Knox in the back, and I can’t quite read her face. All I can hope is that this put her in a better place than she was before and not a worse one. There was a lot of shooting and death, and I can imagine that made her think of her sister being shot. But I hope this helps her see that we can actually achieve our goal and tear Julian down. We’re one step closer now, and we can all feel that.
The drive back to the house feels shorter than the drive to the club, and we’re all relieved to walk back inside in one piece when we get there. No mishaps, no tragedies tonight.
Dog greets us by barking and leaping around our feet like he can tell that we were victorious tonight.
“Aww, you’re happy people died tonight, aren’t you?” Ash says, scratching the dog under the chin and rubbing his ears. “You’re a little murder happy beast, huh? Aren’t you, Manson?”
“After the serial killer? Really?” River says, shaking her head. She pats the dog on the head, and I roll my eyes.
The animal really needs a real name and a fucking collar, since it’s obvious he’s not going anywhere now. He’s been here as long as River has, and since we don’t plan to be done with her any time soon, I guess the same goes for the dog.
But the thought is fleeting as I focus on River again.
She stands up and looks at me, and I take a step closer to her.
“Are you alright?” I ask. It’s the question I’ve been wanting to ask her since we got back into the car after the club, but it seemed better to wait until we were home to actually ask it.
River looks at me strangely, something obviously going on in her head. There’s a second where I wonder if she’s going to say anything, and then she smiles.
She reaches down and peels off her top, looking me right in the eye when she says, “Fuck me.”
I can feel the other three reacting, each of them attuned to her and turned on instantly, just from the sight of her body and her bold ass words.
It hits me too, and my cock starts hardening in my pants.
We all move toward her, but Ash reaches her first. He pulls her into a deep kiss, practically bending her backward at first. River makes a soft noise of pleasure into it, and the rest of us gather around them, watching.
When Ash pulls back finally, there’s a grin on his face and his eyes are heated. “What brought this on?”
