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“You’re threatening me?” Cheryl shakes her hand out of mine and slinks back next to Hamilton. An evil look and a smirk cross her face. “I knew you were trash. Now the rest of this town knows it, too.”
“Why, because I won’t let you abuse your daughter anymore?” I add, “We all know the truth. You won’t be hurting my family anymore. And Callie is my family.”
Cheryl and Hamilton glance nervously around them. People have crossed their arms, standing in solidarity next to us, and are glaring at the McGraws. “You don’t deserve our last name,” Hamilton says to her.
“That’s okay. She can have mine,” I say calmly.
Cheryl and Hamilton, both red and looking angry, turn and hurry away while glaring back at us.
Callie has tears in her eyes, but she’s glued to my side. She’s pulling her phone out of her pocket and reading a text, and her face grows serious.
My phone buzzes in my pocket, and I pull it out and click the ignore button. It immediately rings again, and a text message comes up. I look at it, and I freeze with what I see.
Axel
Answer now. Emergency.
I put the phone to my ear. “Axel?”
“Meet me at the hospital!” Axel yells over loud noise and sirens.
“What happened?” I demand.
“Bear and Sam. There was an accident. Meet me at Freedom Valley Memorial.”
My heart drops, fearing the worst. Dizziness and nausea rush through me. “Are they alive?”
“Yes. I’ll explain when you get here.”
At the same time, Callie says, “They need me back at the hospital.”
“I’m on my way,” I clip as I slide the phone back into my pocket, then turn and run to my truck.
“It’s my dad and Bear,” I choke out as we get into my truck.
“I know,” she says. “I’ll do everything I can, I promise, just get me there.” Her fingers fly over her phone as I drive.
We pull up, and I barely remember parking before sprinting across the parking lot as an ambulance pulls away. We run in, and it's chaos. Callie sprints to the back. The waiting room is full of bikers from the club, looking pissed in their black leather vests with their arms crossed as they wait. The front desk lady is doing her best to field their questions, and everyone seems on edge. I scan the room and don’t see Axel, so I head down the hall to find even more chaos. I see Callie, and she’s completely in her element, yelling out orders. She’s wearing a yellow paper gown covered in blood. My stomach seizes. This is not a scene I haven’t seen before. After engaging in combat on and off for over a decade, I’ve lost people and watched a lot of field surgeries. The outcome wasn’t usually great. But it’s at home this time, and I feel dizzy and sick. This wasn’t supposed to happen here. This is home.
Callie doesn’t see me. She’s in motion and never stops. She calls out orders calmly and moves from both bays where the curtains are drawn and I assume they’re working on my dad and Bear. I scan the large area for Axel and finally see him in the back corner, his arms crossed, his eyes red, looking worried. He sees me and moves to my side.
“What happened?”
He runs a hand over his face. “The club was on a ride headed north of town when a car tried to pass in a no passing lane and took out Bear and Sam in the front.”
“Did they have helmets on?” I ask, pleading he’ll say yes.
He nods. “Yes.”
“Where’s the driver?” I ask, looking around. Who the hell hits two bikers? I’m livid.
“It was a silver Corvette going way too fast. After the wreck, it took off. They don’t know who it was.”
I’m so angry I can barely see straight. “What are they saying?” I start pacing back and forth, my hand over my mouth.
“I don’t know, but they’re both alive. They got them here quickly. Callie’s been going back and forth between them.”
“What are they doing to find the driver?” I demand.
