Page 140 of The Saviors: Part One

I put my hand on her thigh and squeeze. “I think I might have overreacted.”

“You don’t overreact. Tell me.”

I sigh. “I think we were being watched.”

“What?” she whispers.

“It was just a feeling. But I promise nothing will happen to you.” Before that last word leaves my mouth, a car slams into the driver’s side door, spinning us in a complete circle.Fuck, that hurt.The car jerks to a stop. “Is everyone okay?”

“Yeah,” Nolan groans.

I grab my Glock, already having a bad feeling. “You guys get down and stay down.”

“Axel! You can’t go out there!” Chelsea cries.

“I’ll be fine. Now get down.” I slide into the backseat and push open the backdoor since mine is crushed.

I see Cole, Sean, and Kai headed my way. We all creep to the car that hit me, and it’s completely empty. “What the fuck?” Cole says.

A car comes roaring toward us, and we raise our guns simultaneously. Gavin jumps out of the driver’s side of a black BMW. “What the hell are you doing here?” I growl.

“What? I was on my way home and saw you guys. Are you okay?”

“Can we trust him?” I ask Sean.

“Yeah, I swear we can. We’re good, man.”

Everything happens all at once. Two guys with automatics start rushing into the road, and it hits me that the car was just a goddamn diversion. “Get down!” I yell. We dive between the cars, and when I try to get to my truck, shots are fired in my path to stop me. “Get them out of here!” I yell to Gavin. He takes off running and dives into the backseat. Seconds later, my truck is peeling off.

Cole checks the clip in his Glock and locks it into place. “We can’t fight off this much firepower.”

“We need to get to your car,” I say. “On the count of three.” I count down from three on my fingers. When I get to one, we take off at a dead sprint, bullets pinging off the metal of the diversion car and Cole’s. A bullet rips through my leg, but I don’t take a second to think about it.

Diving into Cole’s car, he jerks into reverse, stomps on the gas, and when we’re far enough away, he jerks the wheel to turn us the right way. He drops into drive and takes off with a squeal of tires.

I start calling Chelsea and Nolan’s phones over and over, but neither one of them is answering. “Fucking call Gavin now,” I tell Sean.

He dials and shakes his head. “Straight to voicemail.”

“Fuck!” I yell, punching the back of the seat. “You better hope we can trust him, Sean. He has Chels and Nolan in that goddamn car.”

“I swear to fuck that we can. They might have lost signal.” I give him a doubtful look, and he shrugs. “Look, I’m just trying not to freak the fuck out right now.”

“Should we call Gray?” Cole asks, looking at me in the rearview mirror.

“Not yet.”

I just want to find Chelsea and Nolan.

Chapter43

Cole

What the fuck just happened? We were having such a nice damn day, and then all hell breaks loose. Now Chelsea and Nolan aren’t answering, and with someone, I’m not sure we can even trust.

“Let me look at your leg,” Sean says.

“Fuck off. It’s fine,” Axel argues.