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I storm over to him with my gun ready to fire.
Maci’s body is lying lifeless on the ground and her jeans are down at her ankles. Her underwear is midthigh and my whole life stops moving for just a moment.
Gear and Capone come running in and they tackle the mother fucker who attacked my girl.
I jump over the couch and run towards my girl. Her hair is trashed around her face and she looks peaceful. Her face is relaxed, but I know whatever happened was not peaceful.
Fuck!
“What happened to my girl?” I shout. “Baby, baby! Please! Please! Don’t you fuckin’ leave me! I’m not lettin’ you leave me! I said you were mine and I meant it. Don’t do this to me!” I beg with her in my arms.
I use my body to shield her from everyone’s eyes that are watching the scene. I can’t let them see my girl.
I feel her breathing but the breaths are shallow. Every breath doesn’t go deep enough to be a normal breath.
“Please! Please!” I beg. “Open your eyes. Look at me! Don’t you dare leave me!” I order. I can’t lose her.
“Hawk?”
My head snaps up just as I hear a gun shot in the background. The men have taken the fucker down into my basement I had finished about a year ago.
Riley is standing in front of me with tears rolling down her face.
“I called police.”
“Holy fuck!” I cry out. “Are you okay?” I ask and look up and down her body.
“They didn’t know I was here. I’m okay. I promise. My mom!” She cries out and collapses next to me. She holds Maci’s hand in hers and sobs. “Please, mom!”
“Do you know what happened to her?” I ask.
With the sirens blaring through the compound, I stand with Maci in my arms.
“He didn’t… He didn’t… You know?”
I know what she is trying to say without actually saying it.
With Maci in my arms, I’m running towards the front door eager to meet the ambulance. The quicker she gets to the ambulance, the better. I need them to save her.
The ambulance parks in front of my house and is strolling over with a gurney. “What happened?”
“I came in and saw some fucker tryin’ to rape my wife. Our daughter watched the whole thing!” I rattle off the vague details I had.
“Sir, put your wife on the gurney and we will get her to the hospital now,” the woman says. She has the gurney in front of me and I place Maci on it gently.
The two medics are putting her in the back of the ambulance and I’m climbing in, too. I wave my hand for Riley to follow me.
She climbs in with me.
“Sir,” the medic tries to argue with me.
I shake my head and I fight the urge to aim my gun at her. “I’ll be with my wife and so will our daughter. You can fuck off if you think you’re kickin’ me out.”
The medic opens and closes her mouth. She must sense that I mean business because she closes the door to the back and soon, we’re driving towards the hospital.
