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“I’m so glad you’re okay,” she whispers.
“Me too,” Jack replies. “Sure feels good to see you.”
Mads sniffs and pulls away. “It was you who kept trying to come see him?” She takes one last look over him, then looks between Travis and me.
Jack nods his head. “My name wasn’t on the list. Nurse wouldn’t let me in.”
She smiles a little sorrowfully, her eyes dropping, her hand going to her hip as she arches her back. “If I’d known…”
“We should have told you,” I say gently.
The way she looks at me, I can tell she agrees. As if sensing there’s business we need to catch up on, she smiles and turns to leave. “I’ll meet you down by the car.”
“Mads, wait.”
She turns.
“Stay,” I tell her.
Her expression changes, her dark eyes dancing between all of us. She’s not sure. Considering I’ve kept most things from her for the past—however long, I’m not surprised.
“Dean?” Jack says, uncertain she needs to hear this.
I sigh. “No more secrets.”
With a breath, Mads waddles closer to me as Jack begins. “They all pulled through.”
“And the boy? Him and his dad have somewhere to stay?” Travis asks, his arms crossed.
Travis and Jack caught me up a couple of days ago once they knew I was allowed to go home. Costa assumed he’d got all of Jack’s men. Little did he know, Jack was one step ahead. He had the phones of the men we left at the hangar. Once he knew Costa was trying to get a hold of them, Jack’s men moved in on the farm in case Costa’s men showed. Which they did. Jack’s men got them all. And all of the people we saved from the crates were fine coming around, except the little lad.
“The boy’s fine. Set them up in temporary housing. It’ll do for now.”
“Boy?”
Mads’ hand in mine tightens, and Jack rubs the back of his neck. “There were people who needed help, Mads. We got them,” he says.
She stares at me, hard, before looking at Jack. “And the people who did it?”
Jack looks Mads straight in the eye. “We got ‘em all.”
Mads stands a little straighter.
After Jack’s men had secured the farm, the team running surveillance at the dock were found when Costa’s men checked the perimeter. None of them made it. That’s why Jack was delayed getting to us.
“Is it over?” Mads asks, her voice shaky, holding back tears.
I look at Travis. “Once we bury The Joker, it’s over,” he replies.
“What about the Saviours?”
He huffs. “They lost Vincent and Billy.”
Mads didn’t know already?
Her eyes widen. “Lauren’s uncle?”
Travis put a bullet in between his eyes before they got me out of there. “He’s gone, Mads,” I tell her.
