Page 12 of Ours

“So was breakfast alright?”

My eyes slightly widened and I looked up, seeing Gabriella standing there, with a small polite smile on her face. I don’t know what to say, so I say nothing. My eyes ran over her skin, seeing the mark on her neck that had faded but I still saw traces of it. Guess it hurt more because that was my spot. That was my fucking spot, where I used to kiss her, mark her. Now she's ... his.

“Fine.” I finally replied and pushed the plate away. Going to get up. Then I heard it and so did everyone else. A man screaming. We were at a fucking clubhouse, men didn’t scream.

“What the hell was that?” Ellie said, and I was already taken off, heading out into the lot and I see Burns and Smoke trying to lift a fucking car up in the garage. What the fuck.

“He’s fucking under it!” Burns roared, straining as he tries to physically lift a car.

I walk quicker then see a body under the car, that had no wheels on. Fuck. I ran for the jack.

While Burns and Smoke are trying there fucking hardest to be super heros. I see now the fucking jacks broken.

“Call an ambulance.” I roared at the nearest person.

“We need to get it off him.”

“We do that, it could be the exact thing that kills him.” I know the basics, knew that the blood can rush your head, causing the brain to basically explode from the rush. When the member near me gets through to the ambulance I take the phone off him. Run through what the situation is happening.

“Is he breathing?” The ambulance officer says, and I realized as I lowered to the ground, it’s Maddox.

My fingers went for a pulse and I felt one. “Yeah he is.”

“Okay emergency services are on their way, now it’s really important we stay on the phone until they get there.” I then hand the phone to Ribs, cause I saw Gabriella, standing there, going pale. “Do everything the woman says.” I growled at Ribs and went for Ellie.

Wasn’t shit I could do for Maddox right now.

But I was able to help his woman. Her eyes are so fucking wide, her face deadly pale. I gripped her shoulders. “Come on Ellie you don’t need to see any of this.” I said it, and the fire station and emergency services are around the corner, so they were already pulling in the driveway of the lot. The ambulance was still on it’s way.

But when emergency services began to take over, I gripped Ellie by the hips. “Come on Gabriella, you can’t see this.” If he was about to die, when they lifted the car off him, she didn’t need to see that. It would scar her on a level, that she wouldn’t get over.

Then she goes to push around me and I’m forced to grip her, and lift her away. Wrapping my arms around her, and she started squealing.

Any woman, seeing their man under a pick up would react the same. So as I pulled her away, the emergency services didn’t even look this way, they were fighting to save Maddox.

“Don’t make me leave the lot!” She yelled fighting in my arms. And I pulled her around the garage, so she couldn’t see.

We had no idea what was going to happen. I just hoped and prayed for Gabriella’s sake, she didn’t lose the man she thought was the love of her life.

So I held her back against the garage, as she kicked, screamed and fought against me. But I didn’t let her go. When the sirens took off, I loosened my grip. “Calm down darling,” I say into her ear. And she slowly stilled, “I’m taking you up to the hospital now, and we can fucking sit up there till you get news. Now I need you to take a steady breathe in and think of what Maddox would say.”

She slowly nodded her head, and wiped her own tears away and I lowered her feet to the ground.

“We’re taking your bike. Cause I don’t want to worry about a car park.” She said as soon as her feet hit the ground and the emotion in her voice is so clear. She’s breaking right now, and I knew I had to keep the pieces together—somehow.

“Your old man still on the ride, yeah?” I said, and with Maddox under, that meant one fucking thing and my stomach tightened at that, as we headed for my bike.

She nodded her head, tears running down her cheeks. “Hurry up Hudson.” She snapped when she reaches the bike at the same time as me.

I climbed on, and she was quick to get on. I was a fucking selfish bastard and feeling her pinned against me, her arms wrapped around me, brought back memories of us. But I fought them. Cause the reality was, she was currently dying inside because she thought the man she loved was dying.

So I suffocated those feelings and took off. Gabriella could always hold on, no matter the speed. So I didn’t worry about the speed as I rode through the backroads heading for the hospital, the best way I knew how to get there.

And while I was focused on the road. It wasn’t lost on me. That with Chief on the ride, Maddox injured that meant, I was looked at to lead. National President always stepped in when chapters were in crisis, and this one, was in fucking crisis.

So that meant I just inherited a shit load of fucking problems.

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