Page 85 of Unbreakable

I kept my eyes on Bash as he finished installing cameras in the private dining room so we would have eyes on the room. He was just as antsy as I was, waiting for our girl to get here and set our plan into motion. The clock on the wall ticking away was getting closer to time.

Our attention is drawn to the door when Jake walks through and speaks. “People are starting to arrive. I haven’t seen Arizona yet, but I don’t see the psycho either.”

“Good, okay everybody,” Bash calls out to our brothers. “It’s time to get our game faces on. I want them alive, so we can torture them, but if it comes down to it, kill the fuckers. Only thing for certain is to make sure Arizona gets out of the room safely by one of us.”

A chorus of ‘hell yeahs’ goes up in the room from all the men. This is what brotherhood is, men who are willing to place their lives on the line for you without a second thought. This is why I wanted to be a part of the Hellions MC.

Over the next thirty minutes we sit and wait, the prospects continue to act as the dutiful waiters, each keeping their eyes open for our girl and any potential danger. But I’m growing impatient knowing she’s in the arms of a killer.

Twenty minutes later and I hear a clang of metal against the wall. I jerk around quickly to see what happened and that’s when I see Bash, fists clenched and growling. “That fucker hurt her, she’s in a sling and a fuckin’ boot.” he spits out, his face red from anger and I know he’s about ten seconds away from blowing a gasket and heading out the door.

“Bash, calm down brother. We have a plan and we need to stick to it. Before the night is over she’ll be back in our arms.” I try to calm him down, rationalize with him about why we don’t need to go in there with guns blazing, well not yet at least.

“Yeah I know, it just pisses me off, just look how he’s grippin’ her. I swear he is gonna die horribly.” Bash says through clenched teeth.

Over the next twenty to thirty minutes, we watch as she stands there, not even part of the conversations as he continues to ramble on. Her slouched body and the uncomfortable way she is shifting is telling me she’s in pain. I was as bad as Bash wanting to rush into the room and be her savior even though we knew his intentions were to marry her.

Eventually something is said between the three of them and one of the twins helps her over to one of the tables. I’m not sure which one it is because those fuckers are identical in not only looks but mannerisms as well. She’s only sitting there for a brief amount of time before everyone slowly moves over to their own tables, taking a seat. Our prospects start moving around the room, mixing in with the actual wait staff. We instructed them all that whoever was able to get near her first, was to say something that would give away our presence only to her. Whatever the prospect said has her snapping her head quickly to look in his direction before she begins to scan the room, her eyes finally landing on Jake, her lips turning up in a smile.

“Bash, you think they’re going to stab us in the back?” I ask, concerned that we’re still being pulled into a trap.

“As much as I hate it, I’m trying hard to keep that trust, cuz.”

“If they screw us over, they’ll all fuckin’ die. We’re gettin’ your woman back, safe and sound. None of the women attached to this club will ever go through the nightmare that my daughter did. I wish at times we’d known sooner about her, things would never have happened the way they did.” Earl butts in, his eyes staring out into nowhere. He still carries so much regret over what happened to the Princess, even though everything was out of his control.

All we can do is sit and wait for the signal we have worked out. The twins were going to pretend to get a text that required them, Arianna’s father, and Alexander to leave the room. Bash cloned and was able to send a message from a contact with the Galliano mafia family that would require them all to step out to a private room to handle. That’s where we would be waiting for them, ready to fuck them up.

It feels like an eternity has passed, when I see the twin, who I now know is Maxwell, pull his phone from his pocket, opening it then passing it over to his father. We watch as they converse back and forth between each other and know it’s time for us to get in place, we have maybe ten minutes max before they’re in the room we have planned for everything to go down.

"Game on men, let's get in place.” Earl tells us as we head out to the room we’re meeting them in. We pull our guns, having them ready for anything we may encounter.

“Okay men, remember the goal is to get Arizona safely in our grasp, and take the other two fuckers alive. I have great plans for him and some pigs. I plan to relax in a chair, eat some popcorn and watch the show.” Bash tells us as we head out and I can’t help but laugh. A lot of people don’t realize Bash can be one sadistic mother fucker when he wants to be.

When it comes to torturing people, he rivals up there with Javier. Most people let his tech skills determine what they think about him.

“So, let’s be sure on everything and how it’s going to go down. We take down the two fuckers by whatever means necessary; Jake and the prospects are in charge of getting Arizona out of the building and back to the apartment where Knox and Draco are waiting. Be prepared. I'm almost positive he’ll have some of his men with him when he comes in here, even though he’s with his children.” Earl continues, taking back over.

We all get in place, Earl, Bash, and Sam front and center and are the first people they’ll see when they enter the room. Off to the left is a door leading to a hallway, where Javier and I will be along with two other brothers, leaving the prospects in the dining room. If they pull off their part tonight, they will earn their patches.

Raised voices come from the hallway and we know it’s them. We stand alert, ready for action. The voices continue to get louder alerting us to how close they are. The door knob jiggles slightly before turning and opening into the room. The twins step in followed by Arizona’s dad. What we didn’t expect was the person stepping in behind him.

My heart is beating like crazy, she wasn’t supposed to be here where we couldn’t control the gunfire.

“What the hell is going on?” Alexander says loudly. Arizona attempts to run towards us, but he reaches out grabbing a chunk of her hair in his hands and jerking her backwards causing her to fall to the ground.

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