Total pages in book: 98
Estimated words: 94921 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 475(@200wpm)___ 380(@250wpm)___ 316(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 94921 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 475(@200wpm)___ 380(@250wpm)___ 316(@300wpm)
Harlow couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
At the sound of roaring bikes, Harlow felt Cadeon tense up. He held her tightly and stepped back, then back again. They were getting further away from Hailey and Harlow couldn’t have that. Her best friend was on the floor, dying. She had to go to her.
“Let her go now and this is the only warning I’m giving you. The moment they all turn up, you’re a dead man. You kill her, you’re a dead man. You’re not leaving here alive.”
They got to the door and Cadeon opened it.
“There is always a Plan B.”
Cadeon pointed his gun at Hunter, took a shot, and then threw her across the room. If it wasn’t for Hunter she would have fallen, but he captured her. She knew the bullet had hit him.
“Are you hurt?” she asked.
“It will heal.”
“Hailey!”
She didn’t look back but rushed into the shop, and Hailey wasn’t moving.
“No, no, this can’t be happening. Hailey. Open your eyes. Listen to me. Come on. Wake up. You can’t be dead. You can’t be dead.”
She heard the ring of the ambulance and Harlow tried to stop the bleeding, she tried to help her friend.
The Hell’s Bastards MC arrived seconds before the ambulance.
****
Hunter knew Hailey was hanging on by a thread. She had gone with the ambulance. Hailey wasn’t dead, but she wasn’t doing good. The bullets hadn’t hit any major arteries, which made her incredibly lucky.
The Hell’s Bastards MC crew were all in the reception room, waiting. The Twisted Bastards MC had taken a hit on Hailey’s Beauty Parlor as well as Ava’s Bakery. Larissa was also in surgery. She had gotten hit by the spray of bullets.
From what he knew, Smokey had already dealt with the local sheriff. They were handling this problem.
Harlow sat in the waiting room beside him, and she wouldn’t move. Her gaze was on the door.
One look across the room at Kinky, and Hunter knew the other club brother wasn’t handling his shit well.
Big Dick also wasn’t happy. None of them were happy. Smokey was pissed. Ava was on maternity leave, but from time to time, she would go into the bakery with their newborn baby girl and their son Umberto. He rubbed at Harlow’s back.
“I don’t even know a number to call her parents,” Harlow said. “What kind of friend does that make me?”
“They wouldn’t care,” Kinky said.
He turned his head to look at the other club brother.
“What?” Harlow asked.
“Hailey didn’t have a great relationship with her mom and dad. She was a means to an end. In order to get their inheritance, they had to get married and have a child. Hailey was the result of that inheritance term. She spent her younger years with nannies, and then she was sent to an all-girls’ boarding school. Once boarding school was over, and she was a huge disappointment to them, they tried to mold her into what they considered to be someone they wanted to be related to. That didn’t happen, and so their last-ditch effort in getting rid of her was sending her to Fort Clover. The beauty shop and her home was part of Hailey’s inheritance from her grandparents. Her parents had agreed to it.”
Harlow looked toward Kinky.
“How do you know all of this?” Harlow asked.
Kinky glared at him. “Did all you and Hunter do was fuck?”
“No,” Big Dick said. “I don’t want to hear this.” He pressed his hands over his ears.
“Hailey talked and I listened.”
Hunter placed his hand at her back and Harlow got to her feet and started to pace.
“Sit the fuck down,” Big Dick said.
“No, my best friend … two of my best friends are in there.”
Hunter had already been seen to. It wasn’t even a full-on shot. Cadeon had missed, but he had done what he needed to do, which was to distract him enough to make his escape, which he was so fucking pissed off about.
Big Dick got to his feet and went to his sister. Harlow wouldn’t stop, so Big Dick grabbed her, pulled her in close, and surrounded her. She tried to fight her brother, but she couldn’t stop Big Dick. Hunter got to his feet and on the other side of her, he wrapped his arms around her, holding her tight.
“We’ve got you,” Big Dick said. “It’s going to be okay.”
“But Hailey.”
“They’re going to fix her.”
Raven joined their little cluster next, followed by Ava, and then Abriana. One by one, the men joined, forming a circle.
Hailey and Larissa were not one of theirs. Neither woman was claimed by one of the club. They just walked with the women that were. Harlow didn’t like it, but Hunter had claimed her a long time ago.
They stayed like that and he felt Harlow slowly calming down. It did take her a couple of minutes, but she seemed to finally be able to breathe.