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Tires crunched over the blacktop, and headlights swung in an arch, lighting the space where the three of us stood going head-to-head.
Jamie cursed below his breath, eyes narrowing on me. “You’re lucky.”
“What’s going on?” Madison’s voice carried to where we stood as she got out of the car. “Why are you guys out here on the sidewalk?”
“Are you fighting?” Rory asked, shutting the passenger door of the Mercedes.
Madison made a strangled sound.
“We aren’t fighting, baby,” Jamie said, holding out his hand for the brunette.
I scoffed, and Jamie cut a hard look at me, practically daring me to say otherwise. I guess this was why he declared me lucky. Madison hated fighting and violence of any kind, and that meant Jamie would rein in whatever the hell crawled up his ass.
“What’s going on?” Rory asked, crossing between us to go to Ryan’s side.
“We’re talking to Max,” Ryan told her.
“Out here on the sidewalk?” Rory pressed.
“Where’s Wes?” Madison wanted to know.
“He left,” Jamie said, a hard edge still in his voice.
“He left?” Surprise rippled through me even though I’d already been prepared to hunt him down. I guess part of me thought maybe he’d just been out here. Craning my head, I looked to the empty spot where his BMW had been parked.
“You are so freaking clueless,” Jamie muttered.
I whipped back around. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Jamie stepped forward, but Ryan laid a hand on his shoulder. “Jamie.”
One of the girls started to say something, but her voice was drowned out by a car swerving into the parking lot, stopping dead in the center, engine rumbling. We all turned to stare, unable to make out who was inside because everything was black behind the bright headlights.
Ryan squinted. “Is that Kruger?”
The passenger window lowered, and Prism shoved half his body out into the night. “We need to go to the hospital!”
The words sucked me in like some kind of vortex, bending and twisting the world around the sudden slamming of my heart behind my ribs.
“What happened?” I asked, my own voice sounding foreign to me as if I knew before anyone even told me.
“Wes.” Prism pointed in the direction of the road. “He was in an accident.”
Life and panic burst around me. People scrambling to their cars, hurried voices calling between each other.
For me, it was the opposite. For me, everything sort of faded away until I was standing in the middle of nothing. As if everything ceased to exist, leaving me floating in some sort of quiet, hellish void.
Slap!The sound of a hand against the leather draping my back made me blink. The world literally exploded around me, robbing me of breath and making my heart beat erratically.
“C’mon. I’ll drive,” Ryan said, his voice next to my ear.
I wrenched away so hard I stumbled and then took off to my bike. I heard them call my name, but the only voice I wanted to hear right now was not any of theirs.
Jamming my helmet on, I didn’t bother with the chin strap, and the bone in my leg vibrated with the force with which I knocked up the kickstand as the engine rumbled to life.
My body reared back as I hit the throttle, ass bouncing into the seat as I clung to the handlebars. The back end fishtailed slightly, but I strongarmed the Harley back into line and punched it in the direction Prism had pointed.
About two miles down the road, the flashing red and blue lights cut through the dark. My throat closed in, making my breathing labored. My icy fingers screamed and groaned when I gripped the handles with so much force I thought my bones might break.
