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“Call your fucking mutt off, lady,” the new guy holding me under my arms growled in my ear.
“Beau, stay,” I ordered. “It’d be better if you left him here,” I said, trying for nonchalant.
“Where are the kids?”
Both men who were in the room and knew the kids were here were unconscious. All I could do is hope that I could get these guys out of my damn house before they woke up.
“Their dad took them home earlier today. It’s just me and Beau here,” I told him. It was a good thing my voice didn’t waver. Lying wasn’t exactly my strong suit. I hadn’t had much cause to use that particular skill, but it didn’t fail me in my time of need.
Cursing up a storm, the guy dragged me backward and into the living room. My heart leapt as one of the guys closed the door to the spare room to keep Beau inside. The kids were safe for now. I just needed to distract these guys as long as I possibly could.
My heart sank as I realized there were about ten more men in the main area of my house. I hadn’t even counted how many I’d shot in the hallway. But ten was way too many to take on alone. Hell, even if I’d kept them bottled up in the hallway I’d have run out of bullets.
The guy I’d been hitting stumbled out of the room, shook his head to clear it, and frowned at the others, making me cringe. “Where’s the kid?”
“What kid?” the one holding me asked.
“The boy. He was in the room.”
“Lying cunt,” the man snapped at me.
I rolled my eyes. Like I was obligated to tell him the truth. Two men started back toward the hallway. It was now or never. Letting my legs go out from under me, I dropped all my weight onto the guy holding my arms. If I was a hundred pounds soaking wet he would have just held onto me. But I wasn’t small or petite. I was five-eleven and one hundred sixty pounds. Most of it was muscle, though I did have a little pooch on my belly that I’d come to accept and love.
I slid through his arms like I was a buttered up turkey. As soon as my ass hit the floor, I rolled. Grabbing my gun, I started shooting. It was the only way I was going to make it out of this shit storm. Ten versus one wasn’t just bad odds, it was suicidal. But I was willing to give my life for the kids, and yes, the dogs, hiding inside that bedroom.
There wasn’t a thing I wouldn’t do for them. I fired three or four shots, the first two were aimed, after that it was chaos. I was shooting and running. They were just running. I scrambled for the back of the couch, laying down cover fire as I went. The familiar metal click happened right as I got behind the hideous brown couch the landlord had stuck in here for me. Didn’t matter if it got shot up because I intended to replace it.
Wincing as bullets whizzed past, I pulled the magazine from my pocket and reloaded my weapon. Sucking in harsh breaths, I waited for a lull in the shots before I made my move. They were taking cover behind the recliner on the other side of the room and behind the wall in the kitchen. The couch, and more importantly the opening to the hallway was mine.
If they wanted to go after my kids, they were going to have to go through me.
CHAPTER 29
Warrant
“Quit bitching,” I told Jury with a scowl. “We’ll find the fuckers.”
“Yeah,” Demo added, “there’s only so many places they can hide in Sentinel.”
We’d gone to the second location that Forge had mentioned. No one had been in there, except maybe the farmer who owned the building, for a good long while.
“Where do we look now?” Hush asked, looking over at Cypher.
They all started discussing the next best place to check, this was our third stop of the night. There’d been a few spots on the way to this barn that had looked like maybe they’d fit the bill for this crew. They’d been abandoned, leaving us empty handed time and again. I couldn’t blame Jury for being frustrated. We all wanted to find them.
A buzzing in my pocket started up and didn’t stop. “What the fuck,” I muttered, pulling my phone out. As soon as I opened up the app for the cameras I’d installed in Ainsley’s place, I started swearing and running. The first thing I’d done as soon as I’d taken Owen’s phone was install this app so I could keep an eye on Ainsley. I’d already shut off the notifications on my own phone so Owen didn’t get curious. “Move! Everyone go! Now!”
“The fuck you going?” Scythe’s bellow followed me out of the barn.
Before I even reached my bike, they were all on my heels. “The shit heads are going after the kids!”
“How do you know?” Riggs asked, horror written all over his face.
“I installed cameras at Ainsley’s. There’s at least fifteen people sneaking into her place right now.”
“You-” Cypher shook his head and started up his bike. “We’ll be talking about that later!”
That was the end of the discussion. Gravel flew as we all peeled out, heading for the main road. We had to get there in time. We fucking had to.
