Page 264 of Beyond the Blue Horizon
THEO
Bitter cold airlashed across my face as I flew on my bike through Moonlit Ridge, though I felt like I was burning up.
Consumed in an inferno of conviction and purpose.
I pulled back on the throttle, and the powerful engine roared as I weaved in and out of traffic as I raced for Piper.
Fear a clash of violence and desperation inside me. Terror that I was going to be too late and the refusal to even contemplate it.
It wouldn’t happen.
Not to her.
I wouldn’t let it.
I wouldn’t fail.
Not this time.
My bike chugged and grumbled as I whipped around a van then pulled out in front of it. Its headlights disappeared behind me as I threw myself deeper into the night.
Another bike suddenly pulled up next to me, Silas coming up to my side. He tipped his chin in a show of solidarity, and two more of his crew pulled up on the other side.
Rallying for what was right.
I pinned the throttle back, and the four of us blazed down the road.
Streetlights blinked and flashed as we tore through town. Cars splitting and moving out of our way as they felt us coming.
Feeling the mayhem that whipped us into lawlessness.
The truth that we would commit any crime to make this one thing right.
The motel neared, and in the distance, I could see Otto and Cash had paired as they thundered down the mountain from the other direction, the six of us converging at the same point.
Knew Kane and River would be going out of their minds, not being here. But what they were standing for was just as important.
Those kids.
The women.
This family.
I scanned the area as the old motel came into view. It was one of the only run-down motels in Moonlit Ridge. A single-story building with about fifteen rooms just off the road to my left.
Agitation stirred when I saw a few cars parked out in front of the doors.
Piper’s Volvo was by itself in the middle.
It didn’t sit right.
There was no chance Toga didn’t have himself surrounded.
Protected.
I gave a sweeping gesture for Silas and his crew to go around back.
Gut giving me the sense that this was going to be an ambush.
