Page 105 of Tank’s Weakness

He will know we are coming, but I can’t wait.

Climbing on my bike, I hear Gunner calling me, but I don’t stop. I start the bike up and tear out of there, and I hear the roar of their bikes right behind me.

Whether they agree with my actions or not, they will back me up.

It’s a forty-five minute drive on a slow day, but I break all of the speed limits as I race through Santa Rosa County to reach her. When I get closer, I pass the motel before I finally pull over. As out of control as I feel right now, I know rushing in there might get Delaney killed. She is the main focus.

The guys pull in behind me, all shutting off their bikes as we talk.

“What’s the plan?” Smoke asks me.

Usually he is the one who makes the plans. He’s the president, after all. This is my old lady, though, and he knows I’m not in my right mind. I appreciate him deferring to me, but the truth is, I don’t know what to do. I want to barge in there, but is that the right choice?

“Did Fox give us the room number?” I ask.

“He texted it to me on the way here. He’s also sending in calls for the police on the other side of the county. What is your plan?” Smoke poses it as a question, but I hear the demand in his tone.

“We go in there. I deal with fuckface, and you get Delaney out of there,” I spit out.

“So you bust in the door, then what? What if he is holding her at knife or gunpoint? Then what? I’m not trying to stop you from doing what you need to do, but you need to think it through.”

As much as I hate to admit it, Smoke is making sense. I can’t be reckless. Not with her.

“So what do you propose?” I ask.

He nods. “You bust through the door. He will be focused on you. We get Gunner set up as a sniper so he can see through the door. If he has her in a dangerous situation, you try and get him to move in front of the open door, and Gunner will take him out. Mac will be at your six. I will be stationed a bit back with Jagger. Our only focus will be Delaney. You and Mac will take out Blaine. If anything goes sideways, each one of us has the directive to remove Delaney at all costs. Do you agree with the plan, Tank?”

It may seem like he is deferring to me, but what he is really asking is if I am able to get out of my emotions enough to follow the plan. Am I going to fuck it all up?

“Yes. Let’s stop wasting time,” I grunt out.

“You know your roles, everyone get ready,” Smoke calls out.

Mac pulls out his gun. I nod to him as I pull my SIG 1911 from my side. I double-check it is loaded before I pull back the slide, putting one in the chamber.

I don’t plan to use it. Blaine isn’t getting out of this with a bullet to the head if I have anything to say about it.

Everyone looks at one another.

“Let’s go get my old lady.”

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Delaney

“It was just a phase. When you cheated, I was so mad, and I knew you would hate it if I chose him. It felt like the perfect form of payback,” I say, the words tasting like ash on my tongue.

Nothing about being with Tank felt like payback. What Tank and I have is real and true, but I can’t tell Blaine that.

I need to bide my time because if there is one thing I know, it’s that my man won’t let anything stand in his way of getting to me. Not if he can help it.

Please, Tank, hurry.

“What about what you two did?”

“What do you mean?” I ask, heart racing.

“I watched you, you know. I saw what you two did in your room.”