Meg cut him off, throwing her hand in his face, “Oh, I know. She sold you a sob story about needing to support her family, her mom and sister. She told you that Razor threatened her family if she didn’t comply with everything he forced her to do.”
Cypher looked shocked, but Meg wasn’t done. “But she was lying, and you fell for her sweet little tears. You fell forher…”
Cypher stepped right into Meg, “No… fuck that, Meg. I didn’t fall for her.”
Lacey whimpered, “Cypher, please, he’s going to kill me or.. or worse.”
But Cypher’s eyes didn’t leave Meg. “I swear, I know you are mad at me. I know I broke your trust. I know I fucked up. But I have never loved anyone but you, neverfallenfor anyone but you.”
Meg looked away from him, and I noticed Dani’s eyes were on Meg now and not Four.
What…wait…
Meg nodded; it was so subtle that I almost missed it and then she turned to Cypher, stepped into him and hugged him. He looked so shocked, but the tension that he was holding seemed to release a little, until something shifted in his face and he looked down at Meg as she stepped back from him.
She looked into his eyes for a moment and then said, “I don’t know if I believe you, but I guess we will see.”
Razor huffed, “Will you shut the fuck up and let me get to the…”
Before he could finish his sentence Meg shifted and held up a gun, firing as soon as it was lined up. She didn’t hesitate and I don’t think she missed.
Lacey dropped, her weight pulling Razor forward, as all chaos broke loose. The man holding Dani screamed as he dropped to the ground and then she was moving. I took that as my cue to join in and drew my gun moving forward taking out anyone in my line of sight. I heard Axel grunt and saw him drop to his knees, but then everything stopped as Marisol stood blood splattered over her, gun held in both her shaky hands pointed right at Razor. Only five of his eleven men were left standing and they all backed up, unsure of what to do next, now that they were definitely outnumbered and Razor had a gun pointed at his head.
Razor smiled, “Marisol, sweet girl. You look so brave and tough right now don’t you…” he all but cooed at her,” Let me share a little tidbit of information for you. What Clutch hasn’t pieced together fully yet.”
Axel tried to sit up but he groaned in pain and laid back down on the ground at Marisol’s feet.
“What do you think you should do Marisol? Shoot me? Or help your baby daddy?”
Marisol was shaking so hard, Razor made to move towards her but Meg held up her gun in his direction, with one shaky hand. I looked at her and noticed she had her left arm wrapped around her middle, her hand clamped onto her side. But she moved toward Razor, “Don’t fucking move, asshole.”
Blood was staining the side of her shirt, and dripping over her fingers. Cypher was staring at her in shock, horror written over his face. “Meg...” He whispered.
She didn’t look in his direction, didn’t react. She was solely focused on Razor and everyone else was focused on her. Until I saw a slight movement behind Razor and caught one of his men aiming his gun at Meg, I moved without thinking, diving for her, shooting at the same time he did.
Shots went off all around us, hot searing pain lanced through my left pec and shoulder. I tried to push some of my weight off of Meg, but my hand kept on slipping and I didn’t want to expose her. So I held steady over her until the final shot was fired, I waited listening for any indication of what exactly happened.
I felt someone grab my arm to pull me off of Meg, but I fought until I heard Four, “It’s ok brother.”
I rolled to my back, giving her space, breathing hard, she turned her face to me, she looked so pale and she gave me a weak smile, and a soft “Thank you.”.
I looked up and saw that only Razor was left standing, well kneeling. Angel holding a gun to his head, and people moving around checking bodies, checking on Dani and Carmen.
Mara ran up to Marisol who was on the floor shielded by Cypher, followed by the doctors. Marisol waved her off, saying, “The blood's not mine, check Axel…please.”
Gregory moved forward to Axel, talking low, assessing him. Gavin moved over to me, but I pushed him away pointing at Meg, “Check her first.”
I knew I took a bullet, but I didn’t know how bad Meg was and based on the blood and location... Cypher was scrambling up, slipping and then crawled his way over to her.
Gregory looked up at Angel, “He needs emergency surgery, we need to call an ambulance.”
“Make that two,” Gavin added.
Cypher had Meg’s head in his lap softly stroking her hair, tears streaking down his cheek.
Angel looked conflicted, “We can’t have the sheriffs come onto the compound like this…”
Cypher growled, “Are you fucking kidding me?”