Page 1 of Cage's Downfall

Chapter One

JACOB

She was showing all the signs. She told me only the other week, that she felt helpless.

She fucking told me!What did I do- brush it off, acted like my little Autumn was fine. When really, she was back battling a demon that had grown in size, and strength… and the result for that demon’s growth, was him.

My eyes landed on Hawk. I was ready to kick him out. Autumn was having a blood transfusion. She was in an induced coma. She was fighting for her life, and the reason she was fighting for her life was because Hawk had taken everything of importance from her life.

I didn’t resent him for my parent’s death. But what he did with Cage, was Autumn’s tipping point.

She would deny it. But people kept disappearing from her life, that was a problem.

The door opened.

“What the fuck?” Hawk roared, leaving Autumn’s side.

“I called him.” And I stepped in front of Hawk’s path to him.

“I’m Autumn’s family, and I’m telling you, he is fucking staying.”

Hawk’s glare went off him to me. “Since when did you disobey a direct order?” he was saying it like he could pull a president order on me. This was my little sister. And it was half his fault and mine, that she was on that bed. “He isn’t welcome on my territory.”

“This isn’t about the clubs, this is about Autumn, and when she comes too. I want her to have every reason to thank me for letting them resuscitate her in the back of that ambulance.”

I had made the call. We had basically lost her. I was the one demanding for them to resuscitate her. And they did. She came back, rushed into surgery but they induced a coma after the surgery.

Hawk shouldered me as he passed me leaving the room. I knew what I had just done wouldn’t go unanswered. I turned back to look at Cage, and his eyes were on Autumn. Never seen anyone with that muchpure pain in their eyes as I did his.

CAGE

It was never really over. Never got closure. Never imagined leaving her. But she had to know it was temporary. I would never willingly leave her, not forever at least. I would never let him keep her from me.

He had derailed my plan of stepping up in his club. But my blood lied with the Severed Sons. So I went back to my roots. Knew it was a darker path to take but my goal of having her hadn’t changed.

After all when Hawk wouldn’t back down, I knew I had to force his hand.

But all that was for nothing, when I got Jacob’s phone call. The emotion in that man's voice, had me on my bike, riding back here.

Now I was here. I couldn’t walk up the fucking hallway.

The reality of knowing she was in this hospital scared me. Because it confirmed Jacob’s story. Everything he said from finding her on the bathroom floor, to resuscitating her in the ambulance.

Had I really come that close to losing her?

My feet started moving, driven by the thought that I nearly lost her according to Jacob. I wouldn’t believe it till my eyes landed on her.

I paused at the door and then opened it up. Letting it swing open.

Hawk was at me right away but my eyes were on Autumn. I managed to take two steps into the room, before I had to focus standing because seeing her there, nearly took my legs from under me.

The reality of the situation hit me now. Everything Jacob said. She had self harmed. On her wrist. She was bleeding out. Had surgery. Induced Coma. It was all flashing through my head, in parts that Jacob told me the information.

Don’t know how long I stood there. But I ended up at her side my eyes on her bandaged wrist.

“I called in a plastic surgeon,” Jacob said breaking the silence. I blinked coming to the moment. Where had Hawk gone? Had I just completely blacked out him leaving?

“Said the scars should be minimum,” he added.

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