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“Okay, then stand down, that's an order.” Dane barks as he reaches them and goes toe to toe.
“No can do, sir.” one of the others sings out in a southern tang to his voice.
“Bishop.” Dane barks.
“We're under her command, and she took us over. We only answer to her now.”
“She can’t fucking do that.” Dane spits.
“She can, and she did. She changed our contracts, NDAs, orders, everything. We are still The Armoury, but we’re the Black Queen’s Armoury now. Sir.” King chuckles.
“You think this is fucking funny?”
“Guys, come on, let's not do this. You know it's not gonna end well,” a guy says as he exits the barn with another guy.
“Might have known you'd be on her side, Rook.” Dane spits, and the guy he called Bishop laughs.
“Why do you think she picked us?” Bishop nods to Rook.
Rook grins. “We should go, we’re done here.”
They step around us and head to the truck “Rook.” Dane barks, and he stops and turns to look at him, “What's going on down there? Is she okay?”
“Payback!” He shrugs and they climb into the trucks. They peel out.
Shaking his head, Dane heads over to the control panel, and there's a beep. Then he tries again, and there's another one. “Fuck.” He kicks at the hay bale. “She locked me out.”
“So what do we do? How the fuck do we get down there?”
“Honestly? We can't go down unless she opens the door.” Dane shakes his head.
He pulls out his phone. “Dad, what the fuck’s going on…? She what…? So what now…? What the fuck do you mean? Dad…? …Fuck!” he bellows and ends the call. “She’s fucking lost it. She’s taken over Foxtrot 5, discharged Bas from the hospital, informing them she’s going to take care of him at home, and then she’s locked herself down there. Wait? Tank, where's Skye? Does she still have the app for the cameras?”
He pulls out his phone and calls Skye. “Hey, love… No…? What do you mean…? Okay, love.”
“Ray called her an hour ago and made her delete the app and then told her we would call and ask for access to it and to make sure it was gone.”
“What the fuck is she up to?” I spit out.
“Nothing good,” Priest says, “if she’s down there with him. She will have to come out soon to eat and sleep, so I’ll wait for her.”
“We’ll all wait.” My inner circle nods. We‘re all here, and I send the rest of the guys away.
“Is this why she nursed him back to health? So she could fucking kill him herself? We all thought she betrayed Steel’s memory by siding with that fucking parasite, but we underestimated her again, didn’t we? Who saw her last?”
“We all kind of gave her… space after she started going to Bas’s room. So I haven't seen her since then. It's been weeks.” Priest hangs his head and shakes it.
“We all did the same. Dane says Dad went to get her the morning of Steel’s funeral, and she refused to go and said she hated him and wasn’t leaving Bas’s side. We all thought… Fuck, I don’t know what we thought.”
“Hey,” Dice says, stepping forward and hugging Dane. “None of us saw this coming. We all thought she had taken Bas’s side when Steel died, but we were all grieving too.”
“He’s right. After Steel was shot, he underwent massive surgery for hours and hours. It was touch and go for a good week, and then two weeks after arriving he just died… just couldn't hold on any longer. Ray broke. She smashed up her room, screaming, shouting, she wouldn't let any of us near her. She was still supposed to be on bed rest, but the way she threw that bed over… it was like she was possessed. They kept her on bed rest for the next two weeks, and we all arranged the funeral. We asked her opinion on things, but she didn't speak. It was like she wasn't even there, just empty, gone. Then, the day before the funeral, she packs up and goes to his room to get him well to bring him home. She told us, and we all flipped and left her again.
“I thought she would change her mind and come to his funeral, but when she didn’t, I washed my hands of her again, and I never went back, but I should have. Steel wouldn't want us to leave her alone. He would want us to help her raise his kids, and we left her alone again. Fuck, why doesn’t she just tell us what she’s fucking doing? We all turned our backs on her again, and then she goes and proves what assholes we are.”
“So what do we do now, Pres?” Blade taps my shoulder.
“I’ll be fucked if I know.” I shake my head.
