Page 62 of Timeless

Any parent would give up their life for their child’s. Jack always came first. And I would die willingly if that meant Jack would be safe.

Jax was going to have his hands full when Jack hit his teenage years. He was just like his father. I grinned and a tear slid down my cheek. Yeah, Jax would have his hands full.

I knew it was going to hurt Jax when he found out about my death. But I also knew he would put it aside and focus on our son.

He would do what I’d done. Put Jack first.

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I pulledup at the dock. Tae had made it a condition that my body would be found, so Jack would have closure.

And Jax would have closure as well. Not thinking I had disappeared to be with Tae or something.

And my brothers. They had spent six years looking for me. They needed closure as well.

But I think the main reason Tae did it was because he needed to know my body would be at peace.

Not in the ocean somewhere.

I looked at the clock. Three o’clock. Well, at least I hadn’t arrived late to my own execution. I unstrapped my seatbelt and got out. I could see them standing in the shadows.

Why had they given me this chance? Why were they settling to end my life in exchange for taking Jack’s name off the list? Because Will would be pulled from the case due to family circumstances. Will wouldn’t get a choice. It would automatically happen. It was out of his hands.

So, killing me made the most sense. I think if I was younger, I would have tracked them down and killed them off one by one. But that would only be the case if only my life was affected.

I closed my door and walked toward them. I wasn’t nervous. Actually, the only thing that was on my mind was that I really wished I had taken Jack to see the snakes at the zoo.

Maybe if he got to see one, he wouldn’t be insisting on owning one.

Yeah. I should have taken him to the zoo.

I knew within minutes my heart wouldn’t be beating anymore. But I also knew, that I would always be with Jax and Jack. I didn’t really believe in the afterlife. I believed you get one shot and that’s it. But I knew I would live on through Jack.

“Amber?”

I took in the group of men. Looks like they weren’t taking any chances. I knew then. I wasn’t getting a head shot.

I was going to be executed the only way men like these know how to. Fill me with as many bullets as possible.

It was going to be fucking messy. Thank god, Jack would never know the details. Jax, however, would have to live with the details. But he would never know who did it. So, he couldn’t go to war over it.

Not that I was worth going to war over. But I knew Jax when he was hurting; he had to take it out on someone.

I stepped in the middle and the men circled around me. “Really think you needed this many men?” I questioned the guy who seemed to be in charge.

“Just making sure you die, sweetheart.” He gave me a twisted smile.

“Yeah, well, twelve guns should do that.” I looked around at the twelve men. I was literally being killed by a squad. “I’m guessing the head shot is off the table?” I already knew the answer.

“Bloody and slow, we were told.” He took the cigarette from his mouth. “You ready?”

Bloody and slow, and I knew why. Because they weren’t going to get the pleasure of killing my son. So, this was their way of making it fairer. I didn’t mind. I didn’t mind facing a painful death. After how many lives I took out, I deserved a slow death. I guess fate thought the same.

But all that mattered was that Jack would live. He would get a full life. With Jax and Tae looking after him, he would never get in harm’s away again. I had put him in harm’s way, and now I was taking him out of it.

“Yep.” I looked up at the moon. The night sky was beautiful. I always said my ideal death, would be to die under a full moon. I was happy that they had picked this side of the dock. I would die looking up at the moon. Not a shed roof or a shipping container.

It was like my body was already shutting down. As soon as I got told the option by Tae tonight when he called the house phone, my body started to shut down my emotions, so I wouldn’t be in pain.

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