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CHAPTER 18
JAX
I stare out of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows of Alejandro’s office. Lucia left an hour ago. I’ve started a trace on the IP address of the last account to message her on that stupid social media app and now Alejandro and I are going to speak to some people about the attempted break in at her place last night. I know she’s safe. Raoul is one of the best, but I would still feel better if she were with me.
“You ready, amigo?” Alejandro asks as he ends the call he was on.
“Yeah,” I reply as I turn back to face him as his cell starts to ring again.
He rolls his eyes but when he sees the name on the screen he frowns.
“Raoul?” he says when he answers.
I can’t hear the other part of the conversation and all I can do is watch as the expression on his face tells me that something is seriously wrong. I stare at Alejandro, willing him to hurry the fuck up so he can tell me that she’s okay.
“Where are they taking her? We’ll be there as soon as we can,” he says and then he ends the call.
“What is it?” The words catch in my throat. I’ve never been a man of God but I say a quick prayer to him anyway. If he’d just let her be okay, then—
He blinks at me. “It’s Lucia.”
Yeah, I got that. “What about her?” I snap as my heart hammers in my chest.
“Someone tried to run the car off the road. They’re taking her to the hospital.”
I suck in a breath as the blood rushes in my ears. “Is she okay?”
Time stands still as I wait for him to answer.
“Yeah.” Finally he nods and I breathe again. “Raoul managed to keep the car on the road but he hit a stop sign. He said she’s a little banged up but fine.”
“Fuck!” I run a hand over my face.
“Someone just tried to kill my daughter, Jax!” he snarls now, as though the reality of what he just heard is sinking in.
“I know,” I nod, but right now I have an overwhelming need to get to her and check over every inch of her body. “Let’s go see her and find out what happened and then we can decide what to do next, okay?”
“Yeah,” he nods at me. “Let’s go.”
CHAPTER 19
JAX
Alejandro makes several calls while I drive us to the hospital, jumping at least two red lights and committing every traffic violation there is to get us there as fast as possible. First he called Alana, who was only around the corner with Hugo. She is sitting beside Lucia’s bed when we arrive, holding her daughter’s hand, but the two of them are deep in conversation about something and they are smiling.
The relief at seeing her sitting there, safe and relatively unharmed, almost knocks me off my feet. I have to stop myself from going straight over to her and checking her over myself. I want to run my hands over every inch of her skin to check for scratches or broken bones then wrap her in my arms. I imagine the looks on her parents’ faces if I did that, and so I hang back, standing awkwardly with my hands stuffed in my pockets because I feel kind of out of place here. I’m family but not quite. I have no right to touch her like that but that doesn’t stop a memory of my hands and my mouth on her skin from popping into my brain and making my cock twitch in my pants. Not now, Jax!
Raoul is sitting in the corner, stony faced as usual, and you can hardly tell he was just in a car accident. Alejandro walks straight to his wife and daughter, hugging and kissing each of them in turn before he turns to Raoul.
“What the fuck happened?”
“We were at a crossing. A car jumped the light and hit us. It was headed for us though, Boss. It was a targeted hit.”
“Why are you so sure of that?” Alejandro frowns.
“It swerved around two other cars to get to us,” Raoul replies matter-of-factly.
“It was only because Raoul acted so quickly that we weren’t run off the road,” Lucia adds. “He swerved just in time and we missed the worst of the impact.”
