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Clutching the side I’d been hit in, I grunted and picked up the gun from the guy I’d just killed, and I immediately fired at the man who was seconds away from shooting Darius.
I was losing too much blood, too fast, for me to process everything going on around me. I spotted Reese with a wild look in his eyes, and he yelled at someone, for something. I couldn’t fucking hear over the rushing sound in my ears.
I had to get to Shay. I’d lost sight of him in the mayhem.
Fuck. I blinked, hit by a wave of dizziness. The smell of the fire, of fuel, burned wood, and explosives was almost too much to take. I thought I’d left that shit behind. Goddammit, where was he? I turned around, and my vision became unfocused.
“They’re hauling them out front!” someone shouted.
“They’re scattering!”
“Run after!” That was Dante. He had to be on the other side of the house.
Elliott and Crew ran past me in a blurry rush.
I sucked in a breath and followed them.
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Reese Tenley
I sprinted down the hillside, cursing the fact that I hadn’t had the time to grab a gun from Elliott’s safe before I’d seen the attackers dragging my boy to one of the vans. Over my dead fucking body were they gonna do something to him. Fury and adrenaline rushed through me, and I saw only the two vans driving down toward the main road. Nothing else. He was in there, my fighter. They fucking had him. He was bleeding too. They’d hurt him. The image was seared into my skull—when I’d seen them through the window in Elliott’s office, blood gushing from Shay’s leg and arms.
He’d been kicking and screaming.
I didn’t know who was attacking us, but they’d already signed their death warrants.
I vaguely registered two guys running next to me, Elliott and Crew.
“They have Shay,” I spat out.
“Fuck,” Crew panted.
He was fast as hell—
A bolt of hope shot through me when I suddenly saw the doors in the back of the van fly open.Holy fuck. Shay!He was in there—I saw the lethal look in his eyes as he fought for his life against four or five men. He kicked one of them out of the van, and I pushed myself past every limit to run faster.
“Shay!”
I’m coming for you, baby. I’m coming.
I jumped over the fucker on the ground and—goddammit! The doors slammed closed again, and the van sped up.
“Keep running!” Elliott yelled.
Crew and I ran for all we were worth while Elliott stopped, but the distance kept growing between us and the van.
No, no, no, no.
Raw despair cracked my chest wide open.
IN THE NEWS
BREAKING: FATAL SHOOTING LEAVES FOUR DEAD
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“In local news, police are investigating a video capturing the moment two masked gunmen shot and killed three men outside a nightclub in Los Angeles…”
