Page 2 of Cage's Downfall

“Scars are proof of battles you’ve survived.” I spoke but even I would admit I sounded in shock.

Shock didn’t even fucking cover it. Waves kept washing over me. One moment anger, the next sickness, the next the fear of being without her, then finally the twisting and sicking reality that I nearly had just lost her.

Jacob squeezed my shoulder, and then turned and left. Leaving me in the room alone with her.

I didn’t fucking think my actions through. I should have told her I was coming back for her. I should have fucking told her that I was coming back for her! That no one, not even her father, could keep her safe from me.

My obsession with her was as strong as ever, nearly as strong as my love for her.

My hand went over hers.

“I swear I’ll make this right Autumn.” I looked at her pale face.

“I fucked up. I should never have left. I should have fucking told you I had this figured out. I should have…” I paused and tears swelled in my eye. “I should have told you I loved you, not left you in my dorm room.” I lowered to the chair next to her bedside. “I’m not leaving you again Autumn. So come back to me.”

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“You have no idea, how fucking boring day time television is,” I muttered.

My eyes going to her.

They had eased back the pain medication and the sedation medication. She should be coming out of the coma any time now. It was up to her body now. It wasn’t the drugs they were pumping her, keeping her asleep.

My hand hadn’t left hers. I was on her non injured side. I didn’t want to be knocking her sore arm.

I sat back in the recliner. Jacob was dealing with the club, apparently, they had issues with a Severed Son being in town.

Me. In other words.

Hawk was making Jacob’s life that much harder.

I said I’d be happy to fucking face Hawk, tell him myself that I was here for Autumn and nothing else.

But that would upset him more.

So Jacob was dealing with the backlash of me being town. If only he knew as of next week it would be worse, as Severed Sons were patching over The Vultures Nomad Chapter

Had to do with my connections to the Nomads.

Hawk was losing men to us. And he wouldn’t be losing just men and territory to me. He was also going to lose his daughter. Because he had proved to me, he couldn’t care for her.

As I was thinking these thoughts, her hand moved under mine.

Chapter Two

CAGE

Involuntary fucking admission. That was the end result when Autumn was stablished. I buzzed the nurses when she came to, then I was forced out. Before I knew they were telling me she was being transferred, to a psychiatric hospital.

I couldn’t do fucking shit, as she was ruled a risk to herself. She was legit stolen from me.

It has been three weeks since her admission, and she wasn’t allowed visitors. She was involuntary, wasn’t shit I could do.

I couldn’t call her. She didn’t have a phone. I was allowed to drop her clothes off but wasn’t allowed to see her.

Three fucking weeks.

Which meant I had to stay in Vulture’s territory longer. I wasn’t leaving without Autumn.

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