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“Tanner, wait!” I pull him back just in time for a bullet to fly past him.
His eyes widen, and he turns to me with a nod of gratitude before slipping his gun from his waist and answering with a shot of his own.
Rueben and I follow suit, unsheathing our guns as we shoot in the direction of the bullets.
“You fucking rat bastards! I should have known you would betray us!” Jared shouts from a distance before shooting at us once again. “I told you what would happen if you do, and now you have to face the consequences of your actions!”
We shoot back at them, not bothering to respond to Jared's jibes. If anyone is the bastard, it is them. They're willing to go to any length, including killing those who stand in their way, just to get money that doesn’t even belong to them.
“It’s no use fighting them,” Rueben shouts over the sound of gunfire. “They don’t have her here with them, and we’re outnumbered. We can't waste time here while they torture her, wherever she is. We need to go.”
I glare at Jared. As much as I want to satiate the anger and bloodlust boiling in me, now is not the time for that. We need to save her before it’s too late.
I nod and motion for them to go. Tanner shoots a final shot, and although I can see in his eyes that he wants to fight back, he follows after an equally angry but more reasonable Rueben.
With them going to fetch a car, I continue shooting until I have just one bullet in my gun. I set off the smoke bomb we have rigged in front of the house. That hopefully affords us the time to escape before they can recover and search for us.
I join the others in the car and Tanner speeds off, going down the back road.
“Those Flames of Hell bastards. How dare they touch her?!” Tanner shouts, hitting the steering wheel as he weaves around the other cars on the road.
“We have to find a way to get her back. Notify the gang that we are on our way. Tell them to prepare for war,” Rueben tells me. I nod, taking out my phone to do as he asks.
With a sadistic grin on my face, I send the message.
“Send a message to the Hellfire Brotherhood, Devourers, and Prowling Tigers. Tell them it’s time to fight. This is the only chance they have of ever being more than small gangs under Flames of Hell’s thumb. Tell them to join us at the bike shop.”
I type quickly as Rueben rattles off instructions, and immediately send them to all the gangs. While they have mostly stayed out of the way of Flames of Hell out of fear, they haveoften expressed a dislike for their control and wished to be free of them.
Now is the time for them to finally do what it takes to be free of Flames of Hell.
Tanner arrives at the bike shop, where our gang is already waiting for us, ready to go into battle. Moments after we arrive, the other gangs show up. For the first time in a long time, we all work together in a bid to get rid of our collective enemy.
Rueben steps forward to address them. “We have all expressed our displeasure at having to deal with the oppression of Flames of Hell, and not being able to retaliate for fear of what will happen, but all that is about to end now.
“Flames of Hell has gone too far, and it’s only a matter of time before they come for each one of us until they wipe us all out. But we won’t give them that chance, because we are going to war now. No longer will we live under their rule and in fear of them.
“Today, we will fight until we’ve regained our freedom and taken out every one of them.”
The gangs erupt in war chants as he goes into the shop, returning with weapons for himself, Tanner, and me.
He gets into the car and we peel out of the driveway, heading in the direction of the Flames of Hell headquarters.
We’re coming to get you, Amelia. Be strong for us.
Chapter 25
Amelia
I sputter, spitting out the water that’s gotten into my mouth. This was not the way I thought I would die, and yet, I suppose that’s what I get for leaving in anger.
“I hear that you took down two of our finest men all by yourself. I'm impressed,” a voice says to me as I sit zip-tied to a chair. I figure he has to be the one that those men called before they drugged me.
His footsteps approach me as I struggle to catch my breath.
“If you want to get out of this alive, you’ll tell us what we want to know. Otherwise, be ready to meet your maker,” the guy says as he pulls the hood from my head. I blink at the nasty sting of the lights flashing directly over my eyes.
“Now, are you ready to talk?”
