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“AJ!”
I whirled, stopping with my hand on the door handle as the car skidded to a halt and the three of them jumped out.
“Sparrow, are you hurt?” Corvus demanded, rushing to close the gap between us while Rook fed a magazine into his gun and cocked it back, eyeing the warehouse like he dared someone to come out of it.
“We saw what happened,” Grey rushed to say, his gaze sliding to where Becca was hesitating to get into the back seat of the Rover. His jaw clenched.
The surveillance camera. Diesel had sent them the live feed. And by the way they were looking at Becca...
I aimed the gun at Corvus, making him slow his forward trajectory. His brows drew together as he finally stopped.
“AJ, what are you doing?” Grey asked, stopping too, while Rook continued to watch my six, his gaze jerking warily between my gun and the warehouse at our backs.
“Get back in the car and go,” I hissed.
“Sparrow…”
“No.” I shook my head. “Tonight I’m not your fucking Sparrow, Corvus James. I’m the girl who almost watched her best frienddie. Because of you. Because of all of you. Saints.Ha!Fucking sadists.”
“We can work this out,” Grey said, inching closer.
“Don’t.”
I shot the ground barely a foot from Corvus’ boot, but none of them even flinched. They all watched with unconcealed hurt and horror at what they were seeing, but I couldn’t make myself stop.
They weren’t saying Diesel was wrong. They weren’t apologizing. They wanted towork it out. Work it outhow?
I didn’t want to find out.
“If you aren’t going to leave, then get the fuck out of my way.”
Corvus met my gaze and something inside me broke, twisting and shattering until drawing my next breath felt almost impossible.
“Ghost?” Rook asked, his gun lowering now, and I couldn’t bear to look at him, because I’d already decided what I needed to do next. “This isn’t right. Let me come with you.”
The necklace still clasped around my throat weighed heavily against my breastbone, making it even harder to get air into my lungs. But as much as I knew I should, I couldn’t bring myself to remove it. Not yet. “I can’t do that, Rook.”
“Just wait,” Grey all but begged. “Let us talk to Diesel. Maybe...maybe this is all a misunderstanding. We can fix this.”
My teeth ground together, bone creaking against bone. “You can’t.”
It wasn’t something that could be fixed. Not by anything they could say. Only by something I coulddo.Something that could ensure this never happened again. That no more mothers or fathers needed to die senseless deaths for the whims of a merciless kingpin. The Saints of Thorn Valley, The Iron Aces of Edgewood, or the Kings of Lennox...they were all the same.
I just needed reminding.
“Let her go,” Corvus said, his tone the one I remembered from when we first met. Cold and detached. Emotionless.
“Corv,” Grey tried to argue.
“Move,” Corvus replied. “Let them go.”
Becca hopped into the Rover, not needing any more incentive, and I got into the driver’s seat, turning over the engine. It started on the second try, and the cement barrier scraped along its side as I put her in reverse and turned around just as Diesel exited the warehouse, the two goons helping him walk out. The other injured Saints limped and grimaced behind them. One fewer than there had been inside.
At least one dead, then.
I couldn’t bring myself to care.
“Keep your head down,” I growled to Becca and hit the gas, bearing us away from no man’s land. Leaving the Crows and everything they were a part of behind before I could change my mind.
