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“Sure he didn’t. That’s what they all say,” he says while shoving Ringer toward the back of the police car.
“Ghost! Do something!” I scream. Ghost stands, watching them arrest his brother for the second time with a stone-cold sober expression on his face. Bones frowns and has his hands wrapped around the back of his neck.
“What the fuck!” I scream as everyone just fucking stands around while the love of my life is getting so viciously shoved into the back of a cop caragain.
“Baby girl, you gotta calm down. They are taking him in one way or another, but reacting like this is doing nothing to help him.”
My tear-blurred vision locks on the back window, where I find Ringer’s clear eyes locked back on me.I love you,I mouth.
Me too,he mouths back.
UGH! What the fuck!
“Fuck!” Ghost finally roars as the cop car pulls away. “Tiny, you better have something for me on those fucking names before I count to fucking twenty!”
We watch as Ghost picks up a large piece of wood that used to be part of the front door and smashes it into Brenna’s already cracked windshield. The rest of the glass shatters on impact. My eyes fly to Brenna, who flinches at the sight. I watch, and more tears flow from my eyes as Flame holds her and presses a kiss to her head.
I wrap my arms around myself and let out a heartbreaking sob,dropping to my knees as I realize the true severity of what has just happened.
He’s been taken from me again.
What if it’s another eight years before I see him again?
There’s so much at stake this time. I just got him back.
twenty-seven
Lilah
Sittingon a couch in Ghost’s office as everyone talks a million miles a minute, I fight off another wave of nausea. I can’t stand the thought of Ringer in that fucking place again.
Ghost and my dad have had to talk me out of walking to the police station about fifty times so far. Tiny is at Ghost’s desk, still working on the names that the officer said Ringer is accused ofattempting to murder.Bones is sleeping in an armchair, with the back of his head leaning on the wall behind him. Flame and Brenna fell asleep on the floor of Ghost’s office an hour or two ago, and Bull left to take Winnie right back to the hospital we just left.
Seems like we’re adding another babe to the group soon, but not even that happy thought can bring a smile to my face. I’m so fucking mad that Ringer’s been taken from meagain.
“How did we let this happen?” I say to no one in particular.
Ghost’s sigh is audible above any other noise. I can tell, just like the last time, Ghost is taking his brother’s arrest really fucking hard. Well, guess what, buddy? Me fucking too.
I listen to my dad, Tiny, Razor, Ghost, and Texas go on and on about what angle they can come at this whole thing from, but the one thing I’m not hearing is that we get a fucking lawyer and get my husband the fuck out of there and back to me.
“What the fuck is going on?” Maria plows through Ghost’s door with Tank fast behind her. Flame’s head lifts groggily at the sound of his mom’s angry voice, and Bones’s weathered eyes blink open.
Dad takes his arm from around me and lifts off the couch, heading toward his friend. “We didn’t want to wake you guys.”
“Ringer was arrested again, and you didn’t think that was a good enough reason to call? You thought it was a good idea totextthat information so that we wouldn’t see it until we woke up?”
“Calm down, love,” Tank pulls his spitfire wife back against his chest.
Her shoulders immediately soften, and I have to tear my eyes away. Ringer calms me like that, and going through all this without him solidifies in my heart that Ialwayswant him to be the calming force in my life.
He can’t fucking do that from prison.
Now, along with all the men, Maria is adding her opinions on what the fuck to do.
“Has anyone thought that maybe we should be talking to a lawyer?” I add, not even recognizing my small, scratchy voice.
Ghost and my dad share a beat of eye contact and huff.
