Page 124 of Dirty Hearts

“He has nothing to do with this. It’s you and me, and I’m here, aren’t I?” I added.

Goliath pulled out a shotgun from the bag on his back. He whirled around to face Pa, but at that moment, I heard a sound. A motorcycle. But up here? Why did it sound so—?

Fuck.

It came out of nowhere. A powerful Kawasaki engine boomed. The sound thundered around us. I looked to the warehouse roof on our left just in time to see the biker jump the bike from the roof and zoom across to us, sailing through the air with the precision of a real pro. You’d have to pay good money to watch a stunt like that.

When the bike touched down on the hard on the concrete, the biker twisted around and fired two shots from his pistol. Two shots that landed straight in the two guys who stood next to Pa. Right in their heads.

The fuckers didn’t even have time to register that they were dead.

Goliath tried to shoot the biker, but Pa got him good when he whipped out his leg and swiped him, knocking him over.

Pa looked to me.

“Go!” I cried. While he made his escape, I moved to Goliath. In the meantime, the biker continued in his blaze and jumped the bike to the next building.

The only person I knew who could do shit like that was Alex. Just before I grabbed Goliath, I saw a woman who looked like Cora hop on the back of the bike as it landed on the roof of the warehouse.

Again, no time to process. I threw several punches in Goliath’s face. It did nothing but split his lip.Fucking bastard.

It was time to end him. I was still suffering from earlier, but rage fueled me. The man had tried to take Ava, he took Pa, and he’d killed Marissa.

Now was the moment of reckoning.

Now was the time to get him for all he’d done to me and mine. Now was the time to avenge them.

A kick to his chin snapped his head back and knocked the gun out of his hands. But he regained his footing, dove on me, and we rolled from the impact. Him throwing punches at me, me giving back as much as I got, but fuck, we were too close to the edge. There was a rail, and I could see his aim was to get me closer.

“You’ll die for pissing me off, Morientz.” Goliath sent a punch to my face that made me see stars, and he shuffled his way on top of me, holding me in a lock that made it difficult to break. His thighs secured my head while he pummeled me into the fucking ground.

He could kill me like this. Beat me to a bloody pulp until there was nothing left of me but blood and bones.

Ava…

I hadn’t told her I loved her before I left her.

I didn’t know this was going to happen. That she’d get taken again right from under my nose.

My Angel Doll. I called her that because that was exactly what she looked like. When I looked at her, that white mass of blonde hair seemed to brighten like pure light. Like a halo.

Then there was her beautiful soul. I swore to God I could see it every time she looked at me.

I’d loved her from that first day I saw her.

I loved her like nothing else.

It felt like an eternity passed as Goliath beat me to death. Then I heard it. The words Marissa had spoken.

Take care of my sister.That was the last thing she’d said to me. Her last request.

So, what was I doing?

The memory gave me new life, and all I had to do to gather strength was think of Ava.

Goliath was holding my upper body down, but I had my legs.

Raising my knees and using all my strength, I kneed him hard in his back, pushing him forward.