Savage Love (Back Down Devil MC #7)(101)

“Which one?” Lenny asked.

“There was a shooting meant for us,” Miller said. “Killed the best friend of our girl over there. Tragic. Her father is Mr. Strokner. Know that name?”

“Fuck,” Lenny said. He looked at Emily. “I’m sorry about your friend.”

“And you’ll keep being sorry if this doesn’t end,” Gaige said. “Strokner is going crew to crew, shaking shit up.”

“We weren’t there,” Lenny said.

“Strokner won’t believe you,” Miller said. “We know you’re out looking. All we’re saying is to just keep your eyes open and give us a call when you see something.”

Lenny looked left and then right. “Yeah, okay, we’re looking. Pretty shitty what they did to one of my guys’ woman. Kind of hoping I can run a couple of them down for payback.”

“Perfect,” Miller said. “You see them and you call. We’ll come and collect and you run down whoever you want.”

“After we get our guys,” Gaige said. “I need them alive.”

“I heard you the first time,” Lenny said.

“Yeah, well f*ck you,” Gaige said. “Just making sure you idiots can listen.”

The big men all stepped forward. Gaige opened his leather cut and showed his gun.

“Whoa, whoa,” Lenny said.

“It’s all good,” Miller said. “All good.”

“I get the pain of loss,” Lenny said, looking at Gaige and Emily. “But you can’t let it cloud your mind. We’ll be in touch.”

“These guys are f*cking pricks,” Gaige said. “Skip the surf for a few days and find them.”

Mutty pointed at Gaige, his eyes on fire. Gaige wished for something to happen. He would love to take on Mutty, hand to hand, and prove that steroid muscles weren’t worth shit compared to real fists.

Before anything could escalate, Lenny yelled and dropped to his knees. Gaige turned his head and saw two motorcycles and a SUV rolling by. He saw the guns a second before the bullets starting flying. He wrapped his arms around Emily and had her on the ground in less than a second. Gaige heard the return gunfire and saw Nate standing tall, shooting back.

“Stay down,” Gaige said to Emily.

He jumped up and pulled out his gun, but the wasn’t able to take a shot as the motorcycles and SUV was already speeding away.

“Motherf*ckers,” Gaige growled.

“What the f*ck?” Mutt yelled.

“Eight Under,” Nate said.

“We have to do this,” Miller said.

The crew ran to their motorcycles. Gaige rushed back to Emily and helped her up. He looked her dead in the eyes and nodded. Emily nodded back, acknowledging what needed to happen next.

She was in for one hell of a ride…





eighteen.



The six motorcycles sped down the street. Gaige, Blaine, and Nate worked their magic, cutting in and out of traffic, across lanes when need be, cutting off other vehicles without fear. Gaige had a burning sense of guilt knowing that Emily was in grave danger, but there was nothing he could do about that now. They needed to get to end this.

At the next intersection, the other motorcycles cut to the right and at the last possible second, the SUV went left.

“Fuck,” Gaige yelled.

Back Down Devil went to the right. They could chase down the other motorcycles. This could easily became a hostage situation. Gaige could hold these *s until the shooter came forward.

They were able to get within reach of the other motorcycles. Gaige wanted to smash into one of the bikes, but he had to think of Emily. So he had to hang back a little and let Nate and Blaine take care of the dirty work. Blaine got up alongside one of the motorcycles and the rider pulled his gun. Blaine did the same.

“Shit,” Gaige said.

Gaige pulled out his gun and shot the back tire of one of the motorcycles. It was instant chaos. The tail of the motorcycle started to kick left to right. The speed was decreased and Gaige hit his brakes. Nate and Blaine looked back and the other motorcycle took off.

The guy with the flat tire tried to take a sharp left and he dropped his motorcycle. He slid to the side of the road and Back Down Devil officially had someone from Eight Under.

Gaige came to a stop and went after the guy. The motorcycle was on his leg. He reached for his gun and Gaige took a shot, hitting the guy in his hand. He dropped his gun and screamed as blood sprayed everywhere.

“Check him,” Gaige ordered Nate and Blaine. “Maybe he’s the one we want.”

Miller, Shay, and Griffin all pulled up.

Nate kicked the helmet and the guy screamed again.

“Don’t kill him, bro,” Blaine said.

Blaine crouched down and pulled the helmet off the biker. His thick black hair and facial hair made it obvious he wasn’t the one who killed Emily’s friend.

“Fuck,” Gaige said. “Get the motorcycle off him.”

Nate lifted the motorcycle and then pushed it to the side. The rider started to scramble back, but Gaige and Blaine had two guns on him.

“Okay, okay,” the guy said. “I’m not going to move.”

“Fucking right,” Gaige said. “Where’s the rest of them?”

The guy shook his head. “It was nothing. Just a warning.”