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I crouched behind a wall as a couple more rounds hit the sheet rock. Even now, I was just hoping my guys didn’t hear the gunfire and come running back in. “How about we call a truce?” I called out.

“My brother was watching over your clubhouse,” the LoS member called back. “He got a hold of Hangman before they went in. Haven’t heard from him since.”

Shit. I wondered which of the men was his brother. “I’ll hand him over as soon as we get out of this building.” There was silence. “I assume you know it’s about to explode,” I pointed out.

“Yeah. I volunteered to keep the fucker stuck on the pressure plate in here as soon as the prez got the notification that it’d activated.”

“Why?” I asked, peering around the door frame to see where this asshole was. There could only be a minute or so left on the clock. And I’d been in such a good mood when I thought I was getting out of here.

“My brother is dead.”

I swore because I heard the lack of emotion in those words. The truth in them. This asshole was willing to kill himself to make sure I died, too. Well, fuck him, I wasn’t dying today.

Pushing away from the wall and into the main shipping area, I fired my gun twice toward the area where the shadows shifted just slightly. I ran, ignoring the bullets that followed me as I ran hard for a window on the far wall. It was the best I was going to get.

I tossed myself through and the crashing glass was deafening. It wasn’t until light blinded me that I realized that the sound was more than the glass breaking. The fucking bomb. Everything went black.

CHAPTER 28

Keely

“Did he just say bomb?” I whispered, looking in horror at the other women.

Demo had gotten a phone call from Warrant, so we thought they’d be coming home soon. But now Demo was pacing, talking quietly to whoever was on the phone.

It was lucky for me that I had excellent hearing. Or maybe unlucky. “He did,” I said. “He said bomb.”

All the women froze, staring hard at Demo. The man kept his back to us as he walked out of the room.

“I’ll be right back.”

Billie grabbed my arm. “What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to get that guy to tell me what’s going on,” I said.

“Doubt he’ll tell you,” Isla said, but she didn’t look happy to be left out of the loop either.

“Oh, trust me, Keels can break anyone,” Dani said, looking pale, but smug. “She’s a legend in the courtroom for getting testimonies.”

I hurried out the door, following behind Demo. By the time I caught up to him he was finished with the call. “Who was that?”

“Uh…” His gaze shifted away from me.

“Was it Warrant?”

“Yeah.”

A lie. The way he wouldn’t meet my eyes told me that. I was glad this guy never got caught by the enemy, because no one would believe his lies. “It was Lockout.”

He flinched, and gave me a startled look. It wasn’t hard to figure out though. Not when you knew Lock the way I did. Knew the kind of man he was. If something had gone wrong, he would step up and take charge. He always did.

“Demo.” I tried to swallow back the tears. Because deep down, I just knew something was wrong. And that was making me feel a little panicked and a whole lot like sobbing. “I need to know what’s going on.”

“He’ll fucking kill me if I tell you, Keely,” Demo muttered. “He’ll be back soon, just-”

“I can’t,” I told him. “Please.”

“No. I can’t,” he insisted. “It’s not safe for you anywhere but here.”

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