Page 12 of Diamond Desire
Widow was covered in blood. I couldn’t see Kellan anywhere. Angel had what looked like a bullet hole in his shirt and there was… there was blood on the ground. Lots and lots of blood and gore and horrifying pieces of a person that I begged any God above or below didn’t belong to my girl.
Angel’s head snapped up when he saw me, his dark purple streaked hair a mess of debris and blood like everything else, and I barely had my door open an inch before he yelled.
“The guys are in that van!”He pointed back the way I came.“Sapphire’s already gone, but her men were taken separately, and Raya is coming to help us, so go!”
Even though every fiber of my being begged me to find my girl I couldn’t do it. I didn’t even hesitate to slam my door shut and spin the car around, heading back the way I came from on a rescue mission I knew I couldn’t mess up.
Though the van had a minute or two head start, the road was straight and clear – I was hitting the fucking top speed limit of my car within seconds, easily catching up. There was more chance of pigs flying than me letting my girl down by allowing the people she loved to be stolen away by some jackass punk I could kill with my eyes shut and no fucking hands.
“Give Ruby a gun.” I snapped, as I watched the van continue down the cracked road ahead of me, the driver speeding but nowhere near enough for him to get as far away as he needed to be to avoid his fate.
Their vans might have been expensive and far faster than normal ones, but I was in a better car –driving better. I had more to lose than they did, and it was delightfully easy for me to show that with my plan. It took no time at all for me to get close enough that I had a chance for what was either going to be a daring rescue or another fucking crash.
“Hold on tight.” I barked, mostly at Ruby seeing as she was a little more delicate than Aiden, as I hit the gas harder, getting right to the side of the van before I span my car around, breaks screeching and dirt flying.
Not a single ounce of me dared to breathe.
I was entirely focused on saving the people I knew Sapphire could not live without.
In a stroke of luck I had been desperate for, I hit the front of the van hard enough to send it off the road and – luckily – into a thick tree that bordered the edge of the sidewalk and not some random family home. The front crumpled on impact with a sickening screech, smoke appearing within seconds, and a large, wayward branch shattered the windscreen.
It was pretty good, for the start of a rescue, if I could say so myself. I hadn’t killed myself or my passengers, at least.
“Shoot anyone we don’t know!” I ordered my companions as my Montana urges kicked in and I shoved aside all thoughts of anything but violence and began to work on stage two of my plan.
With the lack of movement from the driver, I had to presume they were dead or unconscious, and I couldn’t complain at that. Both were perfectly good options.
I barely registered Ruby or Aiden hopping out of the car with me, weapons drawn. All I could concentrate on was running to the back of the door, shooting off the lock with a single snap of my trigger, and yanking it open wide. A single glance inside was enough for me to let out a breath of relief, thanking the universe that I hadn’t messed up again.
They were all there; my Diamonds men. On the ground thanks to the crash, but not dead, even if they were a little worse for wear and nearly all of them had the weirdest looking collars around their necks that had tiny packets of explosives attached…
At least four of them were there. One tall, dark, and stupidly gun talented man was missing.
“Where’s Kody?” I barked, as I helped Logan to his feet, and Aiden and Ruby did the same for the others until they were all out of the van and on safer ground.
Price instantly started wobbling on his feet when he spotted the blood splashed over everyone’s clothes and I watched himvisibly shudder and close his tear-stained eyes, needing a second to take in deep breaths.
“Dead.” Lincoln said, his voice devoid of all emotion as he grabbed his brother, looking him over and paying close attention to the gaping wound on the poor kid’s forehead that streamed blood down his face at the same speed his tears were falling. “Same as dad.”
“What?” The words shot out of my mouth like a bullet and the bundle of panic in me exploded into an inferno of grief and pain. “What the fuck happened?”
Lincoln explained about the crash, and John, and the fucked up games that had been played. I could barely stomach listening to it and the longer he went on, as Aiden hurried to the trunk of my car to remove my bag of tools and to hand Ruby a medical kit, the more enraged I became.
Fuck.
Malone shouldn’t have died. He should have lived for another few decades, just to make Sapphire happy and so she didn’t lose another father figure in her life.
Malone deserved to be there to watch his sons grow up even more and live their fucking lives – either marry or have kids, if they were interested in those things. Or just travel the world, start a business, or do anything at all they wanted to do.
He had none of that now.
The people who loved him had him there for none of it either, and nothing would ever be the same again.
“John didn’t take Sapphire himself?” I double checked the facts, the gun in my hand tapping against my thigh, desperate to be used as I did.
It was a shame the driver of the van and his companion hadn’t come out to fight us. I would have loved to kill them – perhaps beaten them with my hands just to let out the slightest bit of rage inside of me. It would have been cathartic.
“No.” Lincoln ran a hand over his tanned face, harshly wiping away his tears as he took some medical supplies from Ruby and let her help him clean up a silently sobbing Misha. “I tried to help her, but I couldn’t do shit before John came and pulled a gun on me.” He motioned to his shoulder, that was slowly bleeding and, on a closer look, with a bullet hole in it… Not that Lincoln seemed bothered. “But I saw the stalker – at least I saw it was a masked woman who took Sapphire and got a general build which is better than nothing.” He said.