Page 15 of Lost
“Get your lazy asses up! Hollis just messaged me,” I yell. “I have a location, and it sounds like she’s fucking shit up alone.”
“What?” Brice asked, jumping up.
“I don’t know much, man,” I admit. “She texted me to tell me where she is and that’s about it. I wouldn’t suggest coming with us unless you stay in the car. This isn’t going to be pretty.”
“I care abouther, not how she handles this,” Brice growls. “I hope she kills them all. I just want to pick up the pieces afterward. She promised she’d always come back to us, and this is how she’s keeping her promise.”
Damn. I’ve been worried about whether this pack would be able to really understand Hollis, but his words help to settle that. I plan to withhold judgment for now.
“We’ll see,” I grunt, turning to Cian as he stands. “She was using Mr. Domino’s phone. I bet the fucker is dead. Hollis told me to make sure I told you that things may get complicated.”
“Fuck the complications,” Cian says, glancing at Nova as she stands as well. “We’re getting her back.”
As a unit, people begin to walk toward the front door, and I hear Duncan and Caleb giving directions. They’re both better at planning rescues than I am. I simply want to kill everyone standing between me and my best friend.
“Lars,” Nova says so softly I have to glance at her. “This is going to be really bad, isn’t it?”
“Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to,” I say gruffly. “If you can’t handle the sight of death and blood, I suggest you don’t come with us.”
“I deliver dead babies and am elbow deep in blood,” she says, glaring at me. “I do fine with both. I’m coming with you.”
Blowing out a breath, I shrug. “I don’t have time to coddle you, Princess. Stay out of the way.”
A shadow of hurt crosses her gaze, and my chest crumples in pain. Fuck. I keep screwing up when it comes to her. I’m impatient and gruff, and have no idea how to change it.
Everything about her makes me insane. I’m fighting every instinct to pin her against a car and kiss her.
Not the time.Yelling at myself, I take a deep breath that does nothing except make my dick hard, and turn to watch those coming with us leaving the room.
“Make sure weapons are ready!” I call out. “We have no idea how many guards Domino may have.”
“Yes, Captain my captain,” Kane smirks as he jogs out to his vehicle with his baby doll. God, being a crazy fucker shouldn’t look as good as it does on him.
Rolling my eyes, I nod at my brother as I watch Adira join her pack. I know she can handle herself even while pregnant, so I’mnot particularly worried about her becoming a liability. Quinn and Linus stay at the door as they watch everyone leave, and their alpha Christian stays behind as well to guard them.
Content with that choice, I get into the SUV, where Caleb joins me a moment later.
“Plan is loosely to kill any guards and extract Hollis,” he grunts.
“Wonderful,” I mutter. “I want them all to shit their pants when they see us.”
“You have an obsession with bodily fluids,” Nova says. “That can’t be healthy.”
“Obsession or necessity, it’s all the same,” I say, my back pressing against the seat as Caleb increases his speed.
“Send that link to me and the other packs please,” my brother says curtly.
Forwarding the location pin to everyone doesn’t take long, and I begin to check my weapons as Caleb drives.
“The gun safe is in the trunk,” he says. “Everything you could want is in there, and Kane likes fire so you can help him if you want to burn it all down.”
My lips tip up in a grim smile as I bob my head. I’m a curmudgeon and a hermit, but I don’t mind coming out of retirement for Hollis. The coffee shop is only five years old. I made a choice to walk away from being our father’s enforcer just before Caleb did.
Life is a lot more calm now, but the knowledge has always been there. These days, Caleb is more likely to play fast and loose with the law than I am, and I know our dad isn’t pleased with our choices.
However, my anger and decision to be an enforcer is directly related to our sister’s disappearance. I never stopped wanting to find her, I just didn’t want to lose myself in order to do it.
“Hollis asked me to make sure we pull her back when we find her,” I say softly to Caleb. I know Nova will probably still hear me, but something makes me want to shelter her from this information.
