Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 81694 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 327(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81694 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 327(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
I stared up at him, completely in shock. He had his brace still on his leg. How had he barged in here and killed people? What was he thinking?
“Stop worrying about me, baby,” he said, his jaw clenched, which was the only sign that he wasn’t as calm as he was acting.
The younger guy I didn’t know made his way over to where I sat.
Acid bent down and started untying my hands. “Fucking Christ,” he muttered. “You were protecting him?”
I looked at Acid. “Yes,” I clipped out.
“Don’t talk to her.” Gage’s tone made the man untying me tremble.
He was terrified of Gage.
“He’s a fucking lunatic,” the young guy Gage had called Trev said. “Don’t talk to her.”
My wrists were free, and I let out a relieved moan. That felt so much better.
“Baby, you keep making those relieved sounds, and my finger’s gonna slip. I don’t want their blood spraying on you. Don’t make me snap.”
“Fucking hell,” Acid said under his breath as he untied the ropes around my ankles.
Once I was free, I stretched my legs and feet in front of me.
“Feel better?” Trev asked me.
I looked up at him and nodded. He looked completely out of place here. Why had they brought some college kid into this?
“Come here, Shiloh,” Gage said to me.
Trev stepped back to give me a path to Gage.
I stood up and started toward him. Jag’s hand reached out and grabbed my arm to stop me. It startled me, and for a moment, I was worried about the college kid on my other side, but just as quickly as he had grabbed me, he released me. Then, he fell backward. I stared down at him with a bleeding hole in his forehead. His eyes were wide with no sign of life staring up at me. I covered my mouth as I screamed.
The splatter of blood on my arms as I looked down at him had me frozen, unable to move. Arms came around me, and I tried to pull away when I realized it was Gage. He bent his head and kissed my face.
“I’ll clean you up,” he whispered. “Come on.”
I looked back down at Jag bleeding on the floor at my feet. “You—you killed him,” I said in disbelief.
“He asked for death the moment he grabbed your arm,” Gage said, putting his arm around my shoulders, pulling me against him. “Let’s go.”
I swung my gaze to Acid, who was standing there, completely pale with eyes locked on Huck, who still held him at gunpoint.
“I didn’t hear a gunshot,” I said, looking up at Gage as we walked away from them.
“Silencer, baby,” he replied.
“We killing the other two?” Huck asked Gage.
Gage turned to Blaise.
Blaise shrugged. “Your woman. Your call,” he replied. “It would be good training for Trev.”
I looked back at Acid, and his gaze was now locked on his sister. I could see the goodbye in his eyes. My chest hurt for them.
“Don’t,” I begged. “Please. Let them go.”
Gage touched my chin and turned my face to him. “She tried to get you killed. He was helping her.”
I shook my head. “He didn’t know. He thought I’d tried to kill her. When he saw me, he said he didn’t believe I’d tried to kill her. He called her out on her lie. He doesn’t deserve to die, and he doesn’t deserve to lose his sister.”
Gage sighed. “Fuck, baby.”
I turned back to Acid. “You weren’t going to kill me, were you?”
He shook his head.
“He has a fucking gun pointed at him,” Huck said dryly. “He’s not gonna say yes, Shiloh.”
“I swear, I couldn’t have killed her. Jesus, look at her.”
Gage moved so quickly that I hadn’t seen him pull his gun out. But it was pointed at Acid.
“NO! Gage! NO!” I yelled. “What are you doing?”
“You heard him,” Gage snarled.
“Yes, he said he wasn’t going to kill me.”
“He insinuated it was because of how you looked. Did he fucking touch you?”
“NO! He did not touch me. He was nice to me. Please, please do not kill him.”
Gage’s entire body was strung tight. He lowered his gun. “Don’t look at her. Don’t think about her. Don’t say her name. Or I will know.”
“I won’t, I swear.” Acid’s voice cracked.
“Take her out. We’ll be out next,” Blaise said.
Gage didn’t argue with him, but then the authority in Blaise’s tone made me want to obey.
Pulling me close, Gage walked me out of the room. For a moment, I worried that I should stay. Make sure they didn’t kill Acid or Destiny. But I wasn’t sure if that would do more harm than good. Gage looked ready to combust. The fury was rolling off him in waves.
He led me out a back door and into a dark parking lot. A black SUV pulled up, and he opened the door and put me inside. The other three came walking out of the building next. Once we were all in the vehicle, I looked up at the driver, surprised to see Levi.