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I shook my head. “They don’t know where I am,” I finally said.
My throat clogged as I let myself accept that. Saxon wouldn’t find me. I had to survive this without him.
He grinned. “You don’t have much faith in them. Tell me, how long have you been involved with the family?”
“Not long enough,” Tick said with amusement.
“I’m not involved with them,” I corrected him.
He made it sound like I participated in their business.
“Oh, you are. You’re fucking one of them,” he informed me.
I looked away from him, fighting back the tears in my eyes. I was tired. My body ached from being tied up, but more than anything, I missed Saxon.
A loud thud made me jump. Then a crash. Acid shot up, turning around as he pulled a gun from his waist. I tried to scoot my body over, but couldn’t manage to get far. Just enough to see Tick lying facedown on the floor with blood pooling around his head.
“Where the fuck are you bastards?” Acid asked, turning around with his gun ready as he scanned the room. “I’ll put a bullet in her pretty head,” he warned.
He didn’t get a chance to say anything more before he let out a loud shout and his gun fell to the floor while he grabbed his wrist. Blood trickled down his arm. He hurried over to grab his gun, but then he cried out, and he fell to his knees on the ground. More blood oozed from his leg.
I looked from him to search the room again. Was I next? I wanted to cover my stomach to protect the baby, but my hands were still bound behind me. Tears were streaming down my face as I waited to see where the silent bullets would go next.
AJ came stumbling from behind a wall. I gasped as he tripped, hitting the floor. Blaise Hughes walked in behind him. His eyes found mine just as the wooden doors swung open. The sight of Saxon coming through the doors with Trev and Kye behind caused a loud sob to tear from my chest.
Saxon broke into a run until he was in front of me. His eyes scanned my face and body. “Did they hurt you?” he asked.
“No, just the ropes,” I said to him, and he let out a sigh of relief and began untying my legs.
“He’s new. Y’all came out blazing for the new kid’s woman?” Acid’s voice was pained as he held his good hand over the shot on his leg.
Saxon tensed up as he untied my arms. When I was free, I stared up at him. He touched my face.
“I love you,” he whispered, then stood up in front of me, facing Acid.
“FUCK!” AJ roared as Blaise kicked him.
“Stand up,” he said, looking annoyed.
“You led them here?” Acid accused my brother.
AJ was bruised and bleeding. One of his eyes was completely swollen closed.
“They tortured me,” he said in a raspy voice. His open eye swung to me. “This make you happy, bitch?! Seeing what they did to me?”
I covered my mouth to muffle my cry.
He glared at me as if I had done this. He had taken me. I hadn’t done anything to him.
“Stupid trash. You’re one of their whores now.” AJ spit blood as his hateful stare held me.
“AJ,” I choked out. “Why are you doing this?”
I felt my heart breaking. Where was the brother I’d grown up with?
“I’m not doing shit! You did this. Used your pussy, just like our slut mom. Got knocked up like the white trash you are—” He didn’t get to finish the horrible words spewing from his mouth.
Saxon had moved so quickly that I missed it. I opened my mouth to scream when Saxon’s gun was pointed directly at AJ. The click of the trigger, and then my brother crumbled to the floor. I thought I heard myself scream. Everything seemed to be locked in a haze. This wasn’t real. It couldn’t be.
Acid fell facedown with a heavy thud, and I didn’t even see who had pulled the trigger that killed him. It was all happening so fast. There was a rush. Gage and Levi were there, and Gage walked over and kicked Acid with the toe of his boot.
“Bye, fucker,” he drawled.
Saxon was in front of me, then pulling me up and into his arms. I felt numb. I couldn’t make my feet work. I just stared at the scene in front of me. AJ unmoving. A pool of blood around his head.
Images of us as kids flashed through my mind. We had survived that life together.
Now, here I was, the reason he was dead.
“Haisley, baby, look at me.” Saxon’s voice seemed so far away, but he was right here.
I shook my head. I couldn’t. I took a step back and stumbled. He reached to steady me, and I held out my hand to hold him away.
