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“You still have fight in you,” she pleaded. A tear slipped down her cheek, and that’s when I felt her hand in mine, squeezing me tightly. “My big brother never gives up.”
“It’s over,” I mumbled.
“It’s not even close to being over. Fight!”
“Just…wanna…go home,” I whispered to her. If only I could go back in time, if I could go back to when I was just a kid and…I would find a way to change what happened. She would still be here. My crazy kid sister who thought I hung the moon and stars. I wouldn’t let her down.
“You are home,” she whispered. “Don’t leave them.”
A loud crash filtered into my brain, reminding me where I was. Her face slowly dimmed until I was back in that room, all alone.
Except, I wasn’t alone.
Johnny came crashing through the door, staring at me in horror. “What the fuck did you do?”
The tape was torn from my eyes and the metal cuffs were releasedfrom around my hand. I thought I saw Jason in my peripheral vision, but at this point, I couldn’t be sure.
“It took you long enough,” Rafe grumbled.
“If you’d fucking clued us in, we could have been here sooner,” Johnny snapped. “You stupid fucker,” Johnny grinned down at me. “Lying around on the job. Weren’t you supposed to be breaking Baz?”
I grinned up at him. Well, it was more like a half-hearted attempt at a grin. I wasn’t sure that my lips actually moved. “Took you…long enough,” I breathed out. I was barely aware that the current had stopped. I hadn’t even noticed.
“Blame Rafe,” he said, sliding his hand behind my back and lifting me up.
The room spun as soon as I moved upright. Not even my eyes would close at this point, and the current that once flowed through my veins still rattled every inch of my body, making me feel like a live wire. I was so fucking tired. Not even the idea of getting out of this place could get me moving at this point. My body was breaking, and my mind was shattered.
“We have to move,” Jason snapped.
Slowly, my eyes moved around the room until they landed on Baz. He was bleeding out on the floor, his eyes staring sightlessly at the wall. That wasn’t a very encouraging sign for the job.
My arms were flung over Jason and Johnny’s shoulders and I was hoisted off the table. But the moment my feet hit the floor, I knew I wasn’t walking out of here. My legs gave out, and if it weren’t for my brothers, I would have collapsed on the floor.
“Hey, old man,” Johnny snapped. “We have to get out of here. Make those legs work.”
“Fuck off,” I grumbled.
“I need you to get your ass moving,” he commanded. “Parker was taken. We have to get him back.”
The words flitted through my mind, but didn’t really make any sense. Parker…what the fuck did he have to do with any of this?
Johnny gripped my jaw, forcing me to look at him. “I know you’re fucking hurting, but you have to pull it together. Skylar needs you. You hear me?”
“They need you, Jack. You have to go.”
I squeezed my eyes shut for the first time in hours, trying to push Hannah’s voice from my head. She wasn’t here.
“I’m always with you, Jack. You can’t give in. Go get your family back.”
“They’re not mine,” I mumbled.
“Who’s not yours?” Johnny asked.
“You did the best you could for me.”
“I failed you.”
“But you won’t fail them. You can do this. Try for me.”
