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Derrik was next.
What had she done?
My chest squeezed painfully at the sound of Rook screaming through his own pain as he was hit, not for the first time.
I ran out of bullets. Out of magazines.
AJ’s gun kicked back in her hand. Her too.
Fear flashed over her eyes as she searched the ground for something, anything to use.
This was it.
Lenny Ace was dead.
But my Sparrow had condemned us to die with him.
“Look!” Grey cried, pointing down the docks, to the headlights bouncing against the shoreline. The sound of squealing tires reached my ears, and I dropped to the ground, pinching a shotgun from a Dead Man’s dead fingers, cocking it back and firing.
He was here.
We could survive this.
I rushed to stand closer to my brothers, closer to my Sparrow.
Grey whooped, firing the last few shots in this clip. “Fuck yeah, motherfuck—”
His head whipped back, his body crumpling to the wooden floor.
“Grey!”
He didn’t move. I fired again. “Grey, get up!”
The shotgun kicked back into my shoulder, sending a violent wave of pain all the way down to the bullet wound still steadily seeping my life’s blood down the front of my jeans.
“Brother!” Rook roared.
Guns fired further afield and our enemies turned their attention to the Saints and Kings now boxing them in from the other end of the dock, trapping them in the middle.
I dropped the shotgun, reaching for a discarded pistol, raising it as I backward walked my way toward where Grey had fallen.
Please, no.
Ava Jade screamed, and I chanced taking my eyes off the Aces and Dead Men now engaged in a firefight with the entirety of my father’s force.
Rook’s face was bent over Grey’s, blowing into his mouth before he started compressions.
…compressions…?
My brain struggled to make sense of what it was seeing.
Couldn’t unseen the garish wound where his right eye used to be.
…used to be…?
My body sagged, knees making impact with the wood, my heart beating out of rhythm.
“Please,” Sparrow was saying, her entire body shaking like a leaf in a hurricane as she hovered over Rook and Grey amid the carnage. “No, please! No. No.”
