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She gasped as he carried her into the front of Medina’s, ass first. “Pax!”
“I thought for sure you’d slip out the back,” Marisol commented from behind the counter. “Need help with the door?”
“Yes please.” Pax paused to let the other woman pass.
“I can walk, you know,” Elena huffed, pushing herself up against his back.
He ignored her, striding through the door with her tossed over his shoulder like a bag of loot.
“Text me!” Marisol shouted with a wave, elbowing a protester out of the way when they tried to crowd her. “Watch it, asshole!”
“Should we go back and help her?” Elena strained to see her friend in the middle of the crowd.
“My guys are coming.”
As if on cue, the sound of motorcycles filled the air.
“They’ll handle things for her,” he promised, unlocking his truck with a beep as they approached. He pulled open the door and gently shifted her off his shoulder and onto the seat. “Stay.”
“I’m not a dog,” she snapped even though she had no intention of moving. She scowled at him through the window as he walked around the truck to the driver’s seat.
“I’m sorry, babydoll.” Pax let out a deep breath. He reached over the divide and gave her thigh a quick squeeze. “It’s just…hearing that…”
“I’m sorry too,” she interrupted before he could finish. Tears threatened at seeing him this upset from her stupid words. The last thing she’d wanted to do was hurt him or the others. “Where’re we going?”
“The guys are going to meet us at home.”
“Good.” Elena nodded, already dreading the confrontation. “We need to talk.”
Chapter Thirty-Two
Tanner sank into the couch as he tried to make sense of what he was hearing. The text from Pax should have been a clue something was up, but in all honesty, this was the last thing he’d been expecting, especially after their talk a week ago. He’d truly had thought they’d cleared things up.
“Wow,” he breathed, looking over at his buddy. Vinyl seemed to be just as shellshocked as he was.
“I didn’t see any other way.” Elena shrugged helplessly. “The Medinas are family. I can’t leave them—”
“But you can leave us?” Pax interrupted with a raised brow. “Are we nothing to you?”
“No!” she denied vehemently. “That’s not what I said.”
“It sure as fuck sounded that way to me,” Vinyl argued, just as visibly upset as Pax.
“One call,” Tanner told her, unable to hold in the frustration crowding his chest. This could have been nipped in the bud long ago. “One call, hell just a fucking text, and we could have stepped in when all this first started.”
“But how?” Elena shook her head, sending a tear down her cheek. “Part of the reason I didn’t say anything was becausethey can’t be touched. Believe me, I checked. They’re disgusting human beings, but they aren’t breaking any laws.”
“We have our ways,” Pax promised. He moved forward and cupped her cheeks, wiping away her tears with his thumbs. “The question is, why didn’t you come to us?”
“I’m not used to this,” she admitted softly.
“This?” Tanner prodded. They needed to get to the bottom of things if they were going to have any type of future together. She needed to trust them. Full stop.
“All of it. The only people that have ever had my back are the Medinas.” Elena looked at each of them and let out a deep breath. “They’re all I have.”
“That’s where you’re wrong, ‘Lena.” Tanner stood up, unable to stay away any longer. He tugged her away from Pax and hugged her tight. She was practically shaking in his arms. “So many people love you. Ester and Eloise just for starters. They think of you as the granddaughter they never had.”
“You have the three of us,” Vinyl added with a firm nod. “Heart and soul, sugar.”
