Last Ride (Wind Dragons MC #5.5)(13)

“Let’s bring her home,” I mutter, staring straight ahead, and everyone stands.

“We’ll find her, Sin,” Arrow rumbles, looking determined. “I’m not f*ckin’ losing her.”

The thing is—I don’t miss the flash of worry in his eyes. And he has a right to be worried, because we don’t know if Faye is okay. What if they’ve hurt her? What if they don’t plan on giving her back to us alive?

The pain in my chest intensifies, the emotions—the fear—I’ve been trying to hide coming to the surface all at once. Arrow, the man who shows the least emotion, ever, the man who cares the least about anything . . . Fuck . . . He’s telling me he won’t lose her. Losing Faye isn’t an option. My whole world will f*ckin’ crumble without her in it.

“Me either,” I say, my voice cracking at the end.

I’m not a man who is weak, ever.

But every man has a weakness, and right now, mine is f*ckin’ missing.

My f*ckin’ heart is missing.

I don’t know if I can do this anymore. This pain, I can’t go through it again. How can I? A man can only take so much. Faye might be the center of this club, but she’s my whole f*ckin’ heart, and I refuse to be in this situation again.

No one can ask that of me.

The men pat me on the shoulder one by one as they pass me on the way out. Reassurance. We’ve got this, they’re telling me. We’re the WDMC, and we don’t do defeat.

We triumph, always.

But until Faye is back in my arms where she belongs, I’m not going to be able to breathe easily.

Vinnie is the last to leave the room. He puts his hand on my back and leads me out the door. “We’re going to find her, Sin.”

“I know,” I say, lifting my chin up.

Eyes on the prize.

I need to keep my head clear. I can’t miss anything. We just have to figure this out. List our enemies, or anyone with a motive, and be smart about it. There’s no point calling the cops; finding a biker president’s wife isn’t going to be first on their priority list. Besides, they aren’t exactly our favorite people. They’d probably make me a suspect, search the clubhouse, and find a reason to arrest all of us. Yes, Faye is a lawyer. But I don’t know. She has been working with the feds. Maybe this has something to do with that? I told her not to f*ckin’ do it, but when Faye wants something . . . I’ll look into the case she was working on, just in case.

We have the contacts, we have the manpower, and we have the weapons.

More than anything, we have determination. We have something to lose, and we aren’t going to give up.

We can handle this.

All the women and kids are in the lounge room, watching a movie. I kiss Clover and Asher, who is asleep in Anna’s arms now.

“We’ll be back. Ronan is here with you all,” I tell Anna softly.

She nods, her eyes a little red. She’s been crying. Anna has been here the longest after Faye, and I kind of need her to step up to the plate in Faye’s absence. I know she can do it.

“Keep everyone together,” I tell her, and I don’t mean physically. We need to unite right now, be there for one another.

She nods.

I leave the room and head outside to my bike. Vinnie is already waiting for me. When he steps to me and hands me a gun, I take it. Who knows what we’re up against, and better to be safe than sorry. Although all of us are good fighters, sometimes you need to be strapped. If I find out where Faye is, I’ll be shooting first and asking questions later, that’s for damn sure.

“You ready?” I ask him.

He nods and gets on his bike. I do the same. I lead the way to our first stop, to a man who I know for a fact sees everything that goes on in this city. If you sneeze, he hears about it.

And I need all the information I can get my hands on.





SEVEN




Faye

“SO tell me,” I say, tilting my head and studying him. “Did you get all those men to take me down because you knew I’d kick your ass one-on-one?”

“You never shut the f*ck up, do you?” he snarls, dark ominous eyes filled with hate pinned on me. “How does Sin f*cking put up with you? You must be really good at sucking dick.”

So he knows Dex. Just who is this man?

“I am,” I agree, trying to get out of the binds at my wrists. “One of my many qualities.”

I have to wonder why I’m here.

What does he want—to use me as leverage of some kind? He has to know that Sin won’t let him live after this, no matter what he barters with to hand me over. He’s clearly an idiot.

“What’s your plan? Stop being stupid. We’re both adults here. Why don’t you just tell me who you are and what you want?”

My concern is that I’ve been here several hours and he hasn’t contacted the MC. Wouldn’t he do that if he was using me as a hostage? To demand whatever he wants from them? This doesn’t bode well for me. However, I’m not one to concede defeat. There’s a way out of this, and I’m going to find it. These *s kidnapped the wrong woman.

Were the men who helped bring me here from an MC? They must be, right? Their faces were covered, so I never got to see them. I’ll find out who they are though, just wait and see. The only man I’ve gotten a good look at is the one standing in front of me, and he seems to be the leader. But I have no idea who he is.