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“Ready?” Zac asked.
“Reese!” Josie cried out.
“Hey, VP!” Levi said right behind her.
Reese turned. “What?”
Steph was free from the ropes. Her hand clutched to a crying Josie. But that wasn’t what everyone was looking at.
It was the ground.
On Steph’s legs…
“Oh, shit,” Reese whispered.
There was blood all over the ground… which meant… the baby…
Chapter Twenty-Two
Josie pacedthe hallway of the hospital. Levi, Zac, Ellis, and Luca waited in chairs. Reese stood tall, arms at his sides, being there as the punching bag when Josie needed it.
She couldn’t stop seeing and hearing it all go down.
The metal thuds. The gunshots. The words. Watching the way Reese walked forward at a man with a gun because he wanted to save Steph. The screams of the guys. The fighting. And then the silence when they saw the blood on the ground. Steph cried to her over and over about not feeling good. Josie thought it was just her panicking or being in shock. But the blood…
Josie touched the corners of her eyes.
Reese gave the orders for Brett, Jason, and Hawk to stay put in the storage unit with the guy with the gun.
The words were etched into her mind.
Reese grabbing the guy’s shirt.
If that baby is hurt, I’m going to keep you alive and torture you for years… you have no idea of the pain that is coming your way…
The words made Josie shiver.
She’d never seen Reese like that before.
Now he just stood there, watching her every move.
After making his threat to the guy, Reese scooped Steph up off the ground and started to run. Someone called an ambulance and it met them at the front of the storage unit. Josie rode with Steph. While she was in and out of consciousness, the EMTs talked to each other in what sounded like a different language. The only thing Josie could do was hold Steph’s hand and tell her how much she loved her.
Josie walked to the end of the hall and turned on her heels. She met eyes with Reese from down the hallway. He was hurt too. She knew what she’d said him. The way she blurted it out that she blamed herself for letting him into her life.
She started to move toward Reese, needing him. She hated herself that she needed him. She needed him to hug her. To love her. He was the one who saved Steph. He put himself right in the middle of the mess that wasn’t exactly his business. Josie was the one who found the drugs on Starla. She was the one who gave him her bag to hold so she wouldn’t get into trouble. And look where that led everyone…
Trying to find the right words - or maybe just the truth - Josie licked her lips.
She was within a foot of Reese when a set of doors opened.
Out came a doctor who called her name.
Reese quickly turned. “Go, sweetheart. Hurry.”
As Josie walked, Reese stayed right next to her.
The doctor looked at them both. He lifted his eyebrows when he saw Reese. Not a shock to see one of the MC guys at the hospital. They probably had an entire wing dedicated to them by that point.
