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“Luke! Behind the bar!” James yelled. “I saw her behind the bar!”
He nodded a silent gesture to go to her and that he was covering my back before he tossed an assault rifle to me. I threw the empty guns to the ground and tucked the otherone in the back of my slacks.
A rush of adrenaline coursed through my veins, throbbing into my bloodstream as I hurried toward her. My heart pounded against my chest. I took down every motherfucker who was in my way.
No one was going to stop me.
My vision tunneled, seeing nothing but death around me.
“Duchess!”
The smell of blood assaulted my senses.
Ten feet.
Twenty.
Fifty.
When all of a sudden, nothing but the sounds of cars and Harleys began taking off in all directions, the gunfire finally ceasing all around me. They were leaving from the hell and anarchy they brought upon me.
It didn’t matter.
This wasn’t over.
It was far from fucking over.
In fact, it’d only just begun.
“Luke!” she screamed, coming out from my hiding spot behind a concrete wall.
She immediately ran to me, and I saw it happen before it actually did.
“NO!” I shouted, running as fast as I could to her.
I would remember this split second for the rest of my life. I watched with tormented eyes as a red laser dot suddenly shined bright on Duchess’s forehead.
They say right before you died, you saw your whole life play out in front of you. Except this wasn’t the first time I was in a life-and-death situation. It was like a ticking time bomb of memories unfolding in front of my eyes. From childhood to adolescence, it all flashed before my terrified gaze.
Once I reached her, I reacted out of pure instinct. I had no choice in the matter…
My heart chose for me.
In one hard shove, I knocked her out of the way, and the next thing I knew, I was tucking and rolling with an intense throbbing pain. I blinked through the agony, realizing very fucking quickly that I just took a bullet…
For her.
CHAPTER
TWENTY-TWO
DUCHESS
At first, I didn’t even know what happened.
One second, I’m running toward Luke, and the next, he’s hauling ass toward me. I thought I was going to jump into his arms, so when he forcefully pushed me out of the way, it didn’t register why. It wasn’t until I roughly crashed onto the tile beneath me that I understood what was happening.
Nothing could have prepared me for the string of events that happened one right after the other. My vision tunneled, and all the blood drained from my face as I watched Jameson’s body jolt back from the sudden impact of the bullet in his shoulder.
