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Blood sprayed me and Knox and the floor. It spilled out of Mr. X’s neck far quicker than it had out of Shayla’s and when his legs buckled, my guys let him fall to the floor. Blood spread around him quickly and we all backed away from it.
When I saw Mr. X’s eyes go vacant, I felt safe enough to look away.
Not even a minute later, sirens became audible, quickly getting closer.
“I guess Ian finally got my message and called the police,” I said.
* * *
When EMS arrived, they found Logan unconscious in the attic. He was rushed to the hospital. I got to ride with him because I also needed to go for the large slash that stretched from my shoulder to the center of my chest.
Logan was rushed into surgery as soon as we got to the hospital. The doctors said he had internal bleeding in his abdomen. I was given a private room to get stitched up by a doctor and questioned by the police. I recognized one of the officers and he was familiar with my history with Mr. X.
A few hours passed and my adrenaline had finally crashed. I was alone and lying down when there was a knock on my room door. “Come in!” I called.
The door opened, revealing Keelan, followed by his brothers. I was so relieved to see them that I instantly started crying. Keelan and Colt rushed to either side of my bed. Colt took my hand and Keelan brushed loose hairs away from my forehead. Creed came to stand next to Colt and sat on the edge of my hospital bed. Knox stood at the foot of it.
“How did you know how to find me?” As soon as I asked that, I knew the answer. “You put the AirTag in my car. When did you do that?”
“When Knox and I went to go get dinner the night you took off,” Colt said.
“How—”
“When you gave me that speech about wanting to spend the rest of your life with us and wanting babies, Shi," Creed said, cutting me off. “How could we not know something was up?”
Knox gave Creed a look that screamed,Really?“You didn’t suspect a thing,” he told him. Then his gaze flicked back to me. “You had just told us X had Logan. Then I overheard you talking to Creed. You said the reason you told him about the future you wanted with us was so it would help him when he got upset. Meaning something was going to happen to upset him. That and the fact that you only said it to him tipped me off that you were going to run off on your own again.”
“That’s why you were gone for so long when you left to go get dinner,” I said.
Knox nodded, reached into the back pocket of his jeans, pulled out a phone that he must have bought when he’d gotten the AirTag, and showed me how they had been tracking me with an app.
I looked from Keelan to Colt. “How did you two get in the house? The windows and back door were nailed shut.”
“There was a broken window in the kitchen. We climbed through there,” Colt answered. That must have been the window Mr. X had broken to lure me to him.
“You know,” Keelan said, “just because the majority of us are calmer and more collected than Creed doesn’t mean that we weren’t just as upset that you left.”
“Hey!” Creed snapped.
Colt and Knox snorted.
“How mad are you with me?” I asked them.
Creed put his hand on the blanket where my thigh was. “You might not be able to sit for a while. I plan on spanking that ass hard every time I bend you over for the foreseeable future.”
That didn’t seem like a punishment to me. Not that I was going to tell him that. I wiped my wet cheeks. “I can truly promise to never do something like that again.”
“There isn’t a reason for you to run off and battle a serial killer by yourself anymore, babe,” Colt said.
“Has it sunk in yet that he’s gone?” Keelan asked.
I shook my head. “I keep waiting to wake up and realize that this is a dream.”
“You must feel something?” Knox asked.
I let out a heavy exhale. “I’m worried about Logan, but I am looking forward to going home and returning to our life. When I let myself think about it and how there won’t be this fear shadowing me everywhere, every minute, I feel free and a thousand pounds lighter.”
That made them smile.
