Commotion by the aircraft draws our attention.Sanchez runs up the steps as his men cover him.Reaper and the others continue to return fire from a distance.Walter tries to get up the stairs to the airplane but is tossed off by one of the bodyguards.He falls to the ground and scrambles away as the jet’s wheels start to move forward.
They left him like a fucking sitting duck.
Our reinforcements show up beyond the trees in vans.The brothers get out of the vehicles and start firing at the plane, but it’s of no use.The aircraft is already too far out of range for our bullets to do any type of damage.We watch as it lifts off the ground on the makeshift runway.
“We’ll get that motherfucker back,” Stone promises as he stands and lifts me up from the ground.
Off in the distance, we watch Walter take off in a jog for the trees.Our Nevada brothers who just showed up make their way over to pick him up.I don’t waste another minute as I take off where I last saw Sutton go down.I hear the rustle of grass behind me and know my brothers are covering the area to make sure no one is hiding out in the trees to ambush us.
“Sutton!”I yell out but don’t hear her return my call.
I pick up my pace and come over the brush and find her down on the ground.What I wasn’t expecting was to see her unmoving and the bottom half of her white dress stained in blood.
“God, no,” I say and drop down on my knees beside her.I’m not sure if I should even touch her for fear of making whatever is happening worse.
“Get the bus here now and make sure Melissa is in it.We’ve got a very pregnant Sutton unconscious with blood coming out of her lower half.”I hear Stone say to someone.
“Sutton, Angel, open your eyes for me,” I plead.“You’re safe now.”I gather her up in my arms and even though her stomach is big, she feels so light as I gently rock her.I look over to Stone.“What do I do?Do we move her?”I ask as I feel the liquid coat my hand.
“Darlin’, open your eyes,” Stone tries to coax but doesn’t get a response.He pulls his glove off and places two fingers under her jaw on the neck.“She’s got a pulse but fuck if I know why she’s bleedin’.”
I pull up the dress above her thighs and see her underwear soaked in crimson.
“Fuck,” I bite out.“We can’t wait?—”
“Bus is here but we’ve got to bring her to them over the brush,” Stone interrupts.
I pull her closer to me and stand with her in my arms.I’ve got a death grip around her as Stone, Reaper, and Riot make a path for me to walk without having to dodge stumps and debris.Up ahead I can see the ambulance with Melissa bouncing on her feet, waiting for us to get to her.She’s gloved up and ready to receive my woman and baby.
“Is she dead?”I hear off to the side and turn my head in the direction but keep walking to my destination.“Serves her right, the whore!”the bitter voice speaks again.
My steps falter at the words and notice Walter being held by a few brothers.Riot storms over to the cult leader and sacks the shit out of the man in the stomach.Walter lurches forward, bending in half with a loud wail.I watch as my best friend brings his knee up quick connecting with the sorry-excuse-of-a-man’s nose and face.Blood bursts out of his nostrils as the corner of my lip curls up.
“What do we have?”Melissa runs over, not waiting for me to come to her.
“She grabbed her stomach before she took cover on the ground.Found her knocked out and bleeding,” I tell her everything I know.
Melissa starts touching Sutton everywhere, trying to examine while we walk the rest of the way to the medics.She’s poking her stomach and listening with her stethoscope.As we approach, she starts commanding the medics and telling them what she needs and what they need to do.
“Get an IV bag going,” she tells one of them then looks over at the other.“Cut her out of this.”
I place her on the gurney where Melissa instructs then I’m shoved out of the way as they load her up into the back.
“Meet us at the hospital,” she tells me then hops in the back yelling for the driver to rush.
I stand there for a hot minute watching as the ambulance speeds off in the field.All the adrenaline that was pumping through my body is starting to waver.Numbness is tingling through my bones, and I’m reduced into exhaustion.
“Why the fuck do I feel like I’m having déjà vu?”I mumble to myself as I stare down at my blood soaked hands.
“Take that piece of shit to the guesthouse,” Stone orders as he approaches and wraps an arm around my shoulder.“Go with Riot, and we’ll meet you there after we get this shithole farm taped off.
“Prez!”Hawk calls out as he rushes over to us from one of our white vans.He pulls his tablet up to our faces and starts swiping photos.“We’ve found pallets of cocaine bagged up in eight of the last ten bunkers that have been searched.That Judy lady said that there are over forty shelters underground.”
“My God,” Stone utters as we scroll through pictures of the massive pallets of drugs.
“Think our mafia friends want in on this?”I suggest.“After dividing it up amongst the other chapters.Shit, aren’t there like four of five more locations like this across the U.S.?”
“That’s what Raegan and I have found so far,” Hawk affirms.