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Walker and Darren are standing in front of us, silent. She turns to me once again, tears rolling down her face. “I loved you, I envied you, I wanted to be you, Summer. You had it all until he was dead. Why did you kill him? He could have loved me like he did you, Summer,” she sobs.

I put my hand to my stomach, scared of something happening to my baby. Erin is holding me so tight, we can do nothing but watch this happen.

Her eyes dart to my stomach. “A BABY! Oh my God is it Josh’s? There is hope!” she gasps dramatically and covers her mouth with both of her hands, while holding the gun, focusing on my stomach.

She looks at me, happy. “You did this for me, didn’t you? You were planning all along to give me Josh’s baby.” She starts to cry, sobbing into her hands.

Walker tries to step forward and take the gun away from her but she steps back, pointing the gun at him. My heart stops in my chest, fear unlike any I have ever felt before rocks me to my core.

I can’t do anything.

“Renee, this baby is for you.” I smile at her happily. Darren and Walker both stiffen when she turns to me. “It was meant to be a surprise, you caught me.” I laugh and she joins me.

“I knew we were meant to be together, Summer; our baby will be so special. We will name him Josh after his daddy and then we can get married one day.” She smiles happily like she totally believes it. She lets out a deep breath, fixes her hair. “I’m glad we have all of this settled.”

“Me too! Can you put the gun down? Please? You don’t want to accidentally shoot the baby.” I run my hand over my stomach.

She looks at the gun in horror, like she even forgot it was there. “Oh my goodness, forgive me.” She sets the gun on the table and walks toward me.

Walker snaps into action, grabbing her hard and throwing her onto the ground. “You stupid fucking bitch, you could have hurt her,” he growls, pulling her arms behind her back.

I sit down into a chair, my legs not able to hold my body up anymore. Walker looks at me concerned, his face growing redder.

“I’m a girl, you can’t hurt me.”

He laughs in a voice I have never heard before, it’s completely dark. Darren takes duct tape out of the drawer, tying her up.

“Fucking wrong. The idea of you being a girl went out of the fucking window the second you put a gun on what’s mine and threatened them.”

The door to my front office is slammed open and a bunch of people are running through the building. I almost fall over in relief when I see it’s our family, our MC family.

Shaylin is the first one through the door. “Let me handle this piece of shit. You will never see her again.” Shaylin picks her up by her hair.

“I will rip that baby out of you, just fucking wait! He is mine!” she screams at me. She tries to fight Shaylin off when another girl I recognize as River helps grab her and she doesn’t stand a chance. “See you guys later.” Shaylin grins, pulling her out of the room.

“How did you guys know we were in trouble?” I ask Konrad who is bending down in front of me.

He looks at Erin. “She has a panic button, remember?”

I look at her so thankful that she thought to do that. “Thank you, Erin.” I hug her and then the guys swarm me, picking me up hugging me between them both. “I will take care of Erin, go on home,” Etta tells me and I thank her, but the guys are already walking out of the room with me.

CHAPTER 18

SUMMER

THE NEXT DAY

Nightmares wracked me all night long after what happened yesterday. All I can see is Walker and Darren getting shot, losing them both.

I feel the bed next to me, both aren’t here. “Hey, where are you?” I yell.

Walker comes out of the bathroom and Darren out of the closet. “Did we wake you?”

“No, I was just scared because I didn’t know where you both were.” I slide out of bed, grabbing them and pulling them into the bathroom with me.

I need the hot water to take away my stress, I just want to forget that yesterday happened. Opal killed her parents, she tried to hurt all of us and Erin. I hate that Erin had to go through all of that.

I strip them slowly out of their clothes after I start the water. I inspect every inch of them, needing to convince myself that they really are here and okay.

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