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“Not good.” Scar stiffened when he felt Tessa’s hand on his back through his shirt. She immediately removed it. “I’m not sure he’s going to make it out of here on his own two feet.”

Scar forced himself to breathe out of his nose as he turned so his back was to the wall. His eyes landed on the scalpel on the elevator floor at the women’s feet. Fuck. He’d dropped his weapon.

Gritting his teeth, his vision swimming in and out of focus, he staggered up off of the wall so he could retrieve it.

Sissy stepped in front of him. Scar halted, nearly falling over, but was able to grab hold of the metal rail outlining the interior of the elevator. His right side pinched with every breath.

“Think about Tally.” Sissy’s face was full of worry, but she didn’t reach for him. He still couldn’t believe she was inside fucking Primis Headquarters. What happened to the sweet sixteen-year-old girl who’d sat down with him at that picnic table outside the clubhouse and told him he looked lonely?

Her words, though, were calm and encouraging. “She came to find us after her father took you. She was even wearing your cut.” Though his vision was blurry, he caught the hint of a smile on her lips. The implication of Tally wearing his cut was clear.No onewas allowed to wear a member’s cut except a member—and his ol’ lady.

Scar’s heart started thundering in his chest for an entirely different reason.

“I like her, Scar. Really and truly. She’s strong and fierce. She called youhers. Declared it before everyone present too. You should have seen the looks on their faces when they learned the Mighty Scar had a woman.”

A woman. Fuck. Scar tried to breathe, to focus. Tally had gone to theVia Daemonia. Tally had sent them to rescue him.Tallyhad gone against her fatherfor him. He didn’t know the specifics and he didn’t need to. What she’d done was momentous and shook him on a fundamental level.

He was not worthy of such a sacrifice—but he’d strive every day to be if she’d let him.

The elevator doors let out a sharpdingas they opened. Angel, Ivy, and Scissors went out first. They’d taken the opportunity in the elevator to reload and check each other over for injuries. Scissors had a gash on her upper arm. Ivy had a split lip and the makings of a bruise on her chin. Angel’s shirt had been pulled from her belted pants and was crinkled from an obvious scuffle. She had a slight limp, but nothing that slowed her down.

A vision of Tally stood before him. She was in her chef’s shirt, smiling that secret smile that told him she knew he was there.Hissmile.

Scar dug deep into his reserves for the strength to make it out of this fucking building. Back to her. Wherever that was—Mount Grove, Atlanta, fucking Mars—he was making it backto her.

Tally was his. More importantly, he was hers. In whatever capacity she would have him, he was hers. He’d move mountains for her. Conquer countries, lasso the moon, whatever she wanted and desired, it was all hers.

They made it through the atrium to a sight that Scar never thought he’d see again: his brothers were waiting for him. Bodies lined the large entrance, dozens of them, either dead or unconscious. Standing throughout, dressed in combat gear, was his club.

Steel, Lucky, Bear, Demo, Jumper, Cage, Grumpy, Ranger, Bones, Pirate, Starbucks, Jigsaw, Papaw. Hell, even Aerial was there in a K9 tactical vest. The only ones missing were the prospects, Darrin and Viktor, Ghost, Keys, and Pumpkin.

Right up front, charging for him as soon as Scar stumbled into view, was José.

Scar’s brother nearly barreled through the women to get to him. Scar stiffened as José threw his arms around Scar, pulling him against his chest. José was a few inches taller than Scar and had a lot more bulk to him.

After a few heartbeats where Scar simply leaned into his brother, he lifted his shaky arms to return the embrace. What was a little more pain?

“Fucking hell, Julian,” José whispered, his voice cracking. Scar felt wetness touch the side of his face and he squeezed his eyes closed against his own tears. “Don’t you fucking do that to me again.”

Scar shook his head, not knowing if José was referring to him falling off the bridge, not informing José he was still alive, having José learn Scar was still alive from a stranger,orbeing captured and tortured by Primis. Again.

It really could have been any one of them or all of them.

A sudden shout from behind them followed by pounding footsteps had José and Scar breaking apart to see Keys and Ghost running towards them. Ghost had a thick gash over his left eye.

“What the fuck are you guys still doing here?!” Keys shouted. He had a brown leather satchel over his shoulder but was clutching whatever was in the bag close to his chest. “I told you guys ‘ten minutes’ five minutes ago! Every security system in this place is about to go off and we do not want to be here when it does! Go, go, go!”

CHAPTER19

Tally never expected her distraction to actuallywork. One of the reasons she had never told her father of her troubles with Gordon Tremont was because she feared he would ascend down upon Atlanta with an army en masse. Well, that seemed pretty distracting.

The drive back to Atlanta felt longer than the car ride up had been. All she kept thinking about was Scar and what his brothers were going to do to rescue him from her father. The fact thatanyoneneeded rescuing from her father was enough to make her question her entire childhood and relationship with him. It absolved her of all guilt as she made the phone call to tell him how she suspected Gordon Tremont had burned down her restaurant.

Simone drove Tally back to her house. When her father demanded to know where she’d been for the past three days, Tally lied—something she was able to convincingly do over the phone—and told him she’d been at Simone’s. It wasn’t her fault the bodyguards he’d left behind were so incompetent that they couldn’t guess she might have gone to her best friend’s house for a few days to recover from her loss and the scare she’d received when his people had come charging into her apartment.

Tally had to bite her tongue against asking where Scar was and what her father was doing to him.

Putting Tom in contact with Keysmighthave been a mistake. Despite their age difference, they hit it off like two peas in a pod and were possibly plotting world domination. Both computer experts, it was revealed that Tom also dabbled in a bit of hacking. Somehow one or both of them spoofed information to make it look like Tally’s phone had been inside Tom and Simone’s house for the three days she was in Pennsylvania.

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