Page 93 of Goose

He sits up and looks around. “She was right here. We played cards and then she brought Olivia back to her room. I heard and saw her come back and lay right next to me on the couch...”

I get up and rush out to the hallway to find Joker’s guy. He’s walking beside Joker with a handful of snacks. I stalk over and slam him into the wall.

“Whoa, easy, Goose! What’s going on?”

I turn to Joker and growl. “Bambi is fucking gone.” Turning back to the man, I get closer to his face. “Where the fuck did she go? Why did you let her go?”

“Yo, man! She went running off with Venom. Crying about needing to help some friend or some shit.”

Joker drags me off of the guy. “Where did she go, Menace? Try and remember, Brother.”

The man leans back on the wall and closes his eyes. “She came running out like a bat out of hell. Screaming about some friend being in trouble...at a restaurant? No, that wasn’t it... fuck. Oh! A bakery!”

My heart sinks and I turn to look at Joker. At the same time, we both mumble,

“Ellie Jo.”

We bolt outside while I whip my phone out to call Striker. He answers on the third ring.

“This better be fucking important at four in the morning.”

“Bambi is in trouble! The takeover was a trap! Get to Ellie Jo’s fucking bakery now!”

I hang up and hop on my bike. Joker is right behind me as we fly out of the parking lot. I push my motorcycle as fast as it can go to get to Bambi.

We pull onto Main Street and park right in front of Ellie Jo’s bakery. I can hear the rumble of more bikes coming.

Striker and Maverick pull right next to us, and all four of us rush inside. I try to turn a light on, but nothing is coming on.

“Electric is cut.”

We take our guns out and carefully move throughout the building together. Coming to the back of the bakery, we can see a lump laying on the floor.

Joker rushes over and presses his finger to the lump’s neck. “It’s Venom. Alive but barely.”

Maverick nods and walks up front to call 911. Striker and I case the rest of the building but come up empty-handed.

I sit against a wall while the rest of our club shows up. Mad Dog comes barreling in and turns to me.

“Where the fuck is she?”

All I can do is shake my head.

He screams and punches the wall next to him. “We’re gonna fucking find her.”

I stand and look at all my Brother’s around me. “And when we do, I get to kill the fucker who took her.”

Striker nods in agreement. “Let’s get to the clubhouse and make a plan. Joker, stay with your guy and we’ll video call you during Church.”

Joker barely says a word as the paramedics rush in to get his guy. I pat him on the shoulder as they wheel the man out.

“He’ll be okay. Let Zane know what’s going on if you can. But let me tell you, we’re gonna find her; we have to. I just fucking got her back.”

We all walk out and get onto our motorcycles. Bambi is missing and we need to make a plan to find out where she can be.

I still wasn’t sure who took her.Was Ellie Jo in trouble too? I had forgotten all about her... What the fuck was going on?We needed Joker’s guy to wake up and give us details.

But until then, we need to dig deep and find my woman before it’s too late.

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