Page 284 of Boys Who Taint

But I knew he was the only one who could stop them from going right for Levi’s throat while he’s at his weakest.

Mom’s out for blood, and she won’t stop until this is settled.

Suddenly, another motorcycle races down the mountain, black hair with green streaks fluttering beneath a helmet, and my blood runs cold.

“Oh no,” I mutter. “Sunny Reed is here.”

“Is that bad?” Grey asks. “She’s Levi’s sister, right? She can help us.”

“No. If she sees Silas, he’s dead.”

I peer up as she parks the motorcycle and hops off with Elliot, who she brought with her, and she immediately pulls out her guns, jumping into the crowd of men who came out of the vans.

BANG! BANG!

“Maxie-boy! You called me!” she yells between blowing someone’s brains out. “Where the fuck are you? Tell me who I have to kill!”

“What the fuck is my daughter doing here?” Nathan growls.

“Sunny, Elliot, just in time!” Max shouts. “Silas is trying to kill Levi.”

“WHAT?!” she shrieks, pulling two knives out of a body and kicking the dead person aside. “Where are you hiding that white-haired menace? No one touches my brother!”

“Sunny, over here!” Elliot yells, pointing at the forest through which I just saw Silas disappear, and he rushes after him.

“This is a mess. It’s all a bloody mess,” I mutter as the adrenaline spikes. “What do I do? How do I fix this?”

“We have to find Levi and get him out of here,” Grey says, looking around. “His mom will never let us get close, though.”

Still, I risk it and crawl up from the ground, away from the tree stump to try to find Levi in the midst of the conflict.

BANG!

A gunshot fires off, the stray bullet scraping my knee as it passes, and I hiss in pain.

Sunny actually fired a shot at me, but her eyes aren’t even aimed at me. They’re aimed at Silas, who’s running right past me.

“No!” I shriek at Sunny. “Don’t kill my fucking brother!”

Apollo’s right behind her, zigzagging through the woods, before he jumps right on top of her. He steals her gun, aiming it at her head. “You shoot at my girl one more time, and I'll put a bullet in your head.”

Sunny spits on his face and kicks him in the balls, then crawls off the ground to get away, but Grey runs after her instead, firing shots left and right from a gun he must’ve stolen off one of my mom’s dead men.

I turn to run after Silas, who darts through the trees to get to Levi first.

“Silas, stop!” I scream, swatting away the branches as I rush through the forest after him. But Elliot is on his tracks too, and he’s already pulled out a knife, ready to aim.

Shit!

Behind me, both Lana and my mom throw knives at each other while darting through the woods in our tracks. They’re all following us, along with all the dads and their kids.

Oh God.

If I don’t put a stop to this, they’re going to kill each other.

“Stop!” I shriek, but no one is listening, as shots and knives are thrown out left and right.

“If I find you, you’re dead, Silas!” Sunny screams.

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