Page 66 of Timeless

I knew what an execution was like. The police wouldn’t be able to stop it. They would still kill Amber. One bullet was all that was needed. The only way to stop them from executing her was to be there, shooting at them.

I mounted my bike. The boys could call the police. Fuck, they could do what they wanted.

I didn’t know this town. I roughly knew where the dock was, having ridden past it back when I got here. But I didn’t know it like I knew the one at home. At home, I would know exactly where they would set up to execute someone. I would know exactly what spot they would pick.

But here, I had no fucking idea.

I dropped my phone on the grass and kicked my bike to life and took off.

I would have to guess when I got there. In time. I would make it in time. I had just left behind my phone, which was counting down Amber’s time to her execution.

The highway. I needed to get to the highway.

I heard the roar of bikes behind me. Looked like her brothers had realized what I did. If we didn’t get there in time, nothing was going to stop them from executing her.

I was remaining calm. I wasn’t panicking. My mind wasn’t racing. I always liked to speed but right now I was pushing my bike to its limits. I knew one bad turn, one slight wrong steer of the handlebars, and my life would be the one ending.

It was fucking freezing. The wind whipped through me. But I didn’t care. The ice of the night wasn’t stopping me from increasing my speed. There could be black ice on the road but that didn’t slow me down.

I knew what Amber was going through right now. I had executed people before. I knew there were two options. A head shot. Or a squad. Tae said she was going to die bloody and slow. That meant squad. Which meant they would make her suffer. They would aim for areas of her body that wouldn’t kill her right away.

She would bleed out. Slowly.

If I got there and she was bleeding out, I wouldn’t be able to save her. She would die in my arms.

If I didn’t get there before the shots started firing, I would lose her.

I saw the exit coming up and just when I thought my bike couldn’t give anymore, it got more power from somewhere, and as if my bike knew I needed it. The motor was going to be fucked. But I needed it to get me to Amber. That’s all I needed it to do, just get me to Amber.

I took the ramp off, following the exit. I took a sharp right and took off again. I could see the dock now. We had to follow a bend to get to it, a long-ass fucking bend.

Adam’s doubts of us making it ran through my head. I didn’t have the time but I knew. I knew I was cutting it close.

Surely, this wasn’t my fate?

Just for a few seconds, I panicked. My calmness and control slipped.

What if I didn’t make it?

Amber was going to be executed.

The love of my life, was going to die.

The mother of my child. My only child. She was about to be filled with bullets, like her life meant nothing. That it could just be ended. And that’s it.

Didn’t the fucking universe see that she needed to live? That my life depended on her breathing. If there was a fucking God, why the hell was he letting this happen!

Amber was putting Jack first, like she had done since he was born.

But didn’t she think for a second, just one second, maybe I should tell the man who loves me to fucking death that I’m going to be executed tonight? How the hell could she let me leave her tonight?

How could she think that I would accept tonight as my last memory of her?

Everything she said now made fucking sense. When she said she would always be with me. When she said she was trusting me with Jack. She wasn’t letting me in her life, she was trusting me to take care of our son because she was planning on fucking dying tonight!

How the hell was she expecting Jack to accept me, when the first thing I had to tell him was that his mother was dead! And worse, when he asked why, I couldn’t tell him the truth. I would never be able to bring myself to tell him the truth. Didn’t she know that?

How she died would be a big question mark in his life.

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