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“Rebel.” Nick gave a jerk of his head. “After her.”
I wanted to tell him the command was pointless. The dog was barely a pup, and even if it did under— I'd barely opened my mouth, and the damn thing limped away.I shook my head in disbelief, then strode toward my brother’s head, bent, and slid my hands under his armpits. “Ready?”
“When you are.”
My muscles seized and my back strained as I drove my boots into the ground and lifted upwards. “Christ, T,” I grunted. “You’re a heavy motherfucker—
Memories pushed in. When T and I sat in the seats outside the surgery while we waited for someone to fucking tell us if our brother had survived. T when he'd stood beside mom’s casket, and when he'd taken on two goddamn bouncers inside that club when they'd come for me.
He was always fighting.
Fighting dad.
Fighting life.
“You better stay alive, you stubborn bastard,” I muttered, staggering toward the car. “You better…stay a-fucking-live.”
Ryth waited beside the open back door with a terrified look on her face. I wanted to say something to comfort her. But any hope I had to offer was weak at best.
“I’ll climb in, just hold him, okay?” I almost dropped his shoulders as I backed into the seat and dragged him in after me.
She was gone in a heartbeat, scurrying around the rear of the car to open the other door for me to pull him all the way inside. “The light,” Nick urged. “Get the goddamn light.”
I stabbed the switch above and the interior of the car was filled with a weak glow. Still, it was enough…enough to see the shine of blood that had soaked through his black jeans.
“What the fuck happened?” I stared at Nick as he unbuttoned Tobias’s jeans and yanked them down.
“We just…” Ryth started, stopping as we glimpsed the top of the white bandage. “Had sex.” She finished, slowly shaking her head.
“Sex didn’t do this, princess.” Nick tugged my brother’s pants lower. “A bullet did.”
The lower they went, the worse the sight became, until there was barely any white left on the gauze. It was stained with blood instead.
“Jesus,” I hissed. “Why the fuck didn’t he say anything?”
Nick jerked his gaze to mine. “You’ve met our brother, right?”
That said it all. “Stubborn motherfucker,” I snarled as Nick tugged down the top of the bandage and stared at the dark, oozing wound.
“Fuck.” Nick closed his eyes for a second, and when he opened them, all I saw was fear.
“Oh God.Oh God…” our sister whispered. “We need to get him to a hospital.”
“No hospital,”Nick and I answered in unison.
“What do you mean,no hospital?" She pushed in around me, stabbing her finger toward the wound. “Look at it, that’s bad…that’s real fucking bad.” Her voice broke, until there was nothing…
Nothing but silence.
My stomach clenched tight, driving the taste of that steak into my throat, because Iwaslooking at it. The gauze glistened. The wound was black around the edges. It looked bad…real fucking bad.
I did this.
There was no way around it.
I caused all of this. If I hadn’t gone after Killion—if I hadn’t left them behind.
The car seemed to sway under the weight of consequence. I closed my eyes as that heaviness pressed down on my chest. We had nowhere to go now, and no one to trust. We couldn’t go to the hospital. We sure as hell couldn’t stay here.
