Page 56 of Last One Standing
All the bikers were armed. There were ten of them to our four who had weapons, Shep and JJ were unarmed.
“The cops have been called. They were alerted; you should go.” Lizzy’s voice shook, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw Four whip his head in her direction.
Brick smiled at her. “That was a stupid thing to do, sweetheart.” He gestured to one of his guys, and they lifted the gun to Lizzy.
Everything happened so fast after that. Four screamed and leaped over the counter, tackling the man who was about to shoot Lizzy. Gunfire rang out, and pure chaos erupted.
“Hit the floor!” I shouted to Lizzy and the others who were unarmed.
I ducked behind a table, aimed at one of the members, and got him right between the eyes.
“Move!” Brick hollered.
He stood with Darby covering his body. I couldn’t get a shot without hitting her. He dragged her to the front door. I had to keep him here.
“You’re going nowhere, Brick,” I yelled and rose, pointing my gun at him. “Let her go.”
“So you can shoot me?” He looked around the shop. “We’re almost done here.” Three of his guys were dead, and the remainder pushed in closer to him.
“Leave!” Gabe shouted.
Brick sneered and whispered something in Darby’s ear. Her eyes widened, and she met my gaze. It didn’t matter that I was only a few feet from her. I knew before it happened, and I couldn’t stop it.
A shot rang out and blood bloomed over her baby-blue sundress. She fell forward into my arms when I raced to grab her. More shots sounded, but the Kings ran out.
“Angel,” Darby cried. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpered and gasped for air.
I didn’t get the chance to lie to her and tell her she’d be okay. She took a shaky breath and went still.
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
KONA
Noel had been watchingthe video feed to the store in real time. I didn’t know Darby, but the others in this room did, and Brick…someone these brothers were protecting me and my brother from, had just killed her.
I fell hard into the seat as I witnessed her dying in Angel’s arms, the shop littered with Dead Kings…it was carnage.
“What do we do?” Mason whispered.
“There’s no way the police weren’t called and if they flee, it’ll be worse.” Noel’s hand shook, which belied his calm tone.
“I have an idea.” Phoenix was huddled close to Noel, no doubt shaken up by what we all just witnessed.
“What’s that?” Noel wrapped an arm around him.
“If some of the police are working with the Kings, and there’s no way of knowing who, so maybe going over their head to get someone to deal with them might be a good idea.”
“Like the chief? There’s no way of knowing if they are dirty either.” Mason raised a good point.
“No.” Phoenix bit his lip. “Carmichael.”
I looked at each face, trying to understand one, who that was, and two, why that name turned Noel’s face red.
“Why would we do that?” Noel was trying to keep calm, but that name upset him.
“You can hate him if you want, Noel, but the truth is, he helped rescue me, and he kept all our names clean so no one was arrested.” Phoenix lifted a brow. “And you know you and your brothers would have been thrown in a cell if it weren’t for him.”
“I’m missing something.” I glanced at the screen. “Cops are arriving. Whatever plan you have, now may be a good idea to execute it.”
