Page 110 of Loyal
“I’m sorry, you need to stay here,” he tells me.
“No, no, no! He can’t be dead. Tell me he’s not dead. I need to get in there. I’m a nurse, I can save him,” I beg as I try to pull away.
“Sami, get it fucking together. This isn’t the time for a breakdown,” Savage barks from his perch.
“Easy for you to say when you are all the way back here,” I snap.
I watch as his jaw twitches, but he doesn’t look away from his scope. Where his barrel is pointed is beyond me, but clearly it’s not doing any good.
“Police have entered the gate, and I have audio,” Dex says.
“Let’s hear it,” Savage tells him.
“Sami, you’re going to want to see this,” Dex tells me, not looking away from his tablet.
The prospect lets go of me, and for a second I contemplate rushing toward the fight, but I move to Dex instead.
“What is it? What do you see?” I demand as I come to stand next to him.
“Look.” He points to one of the four drone cameras he has up in the air.
I watch as Loyal groans, rolling himself over.
“He’s alive,” I say breathlessly as I watch him get up.
“Why won’t you die?” Billy screeches as the cop cars swarm them.
“Put the guns down!” the cops demand, using their car doors as shields.
“We will gladly put the guns down, officers, once they stop aiming at us,” Fang tells them.
“This isn’t how this was supposed to happen. She was supposed to come back to me and realize it was a mistake. Does she know I hired your PI company? That you were one of the people I paid to dig into her, to find out why she was leaving me? Instead, you took what wasn’t yours,” Billy rants.
I suck in a breath. “Is that true?” I ask quietly.
“Partially. He did hire our club’s PI company. Yes, Loyal went to look at his now-house when it was on the market with Bailey to try and spy. They found nothing, so Bailey returned his money and said she wasn’t taking the job. That’s it, though. He only went with her for the one job, never personally dug into you himself,” Dex tells me as his fingers move across the screen.
“I don’t understand…” I mutter to myself.
“I don’t know what to tell you. You’d have to talk to him. Do you want my opinion though?” Dex asks.
“Go for it.”
He shrugs. “Who cares what happened before you two met. It’s not like you both don’t have a past. Did you feel pressuredinto being with him? Do you feel like he stalked you? Do you feel like he did anything out of line?”
I shake my head slowly. “No…”
“Then who cares what your ex thinks. As long as you two are happy.”
I look down at the camera, to where Loyal is.
Is it maybe a little creepy that he possibly bought the house next door because he wanted me the moment he saw me? Yeah, a little, but I meant it when I said he never made me feel uncomfortable. Like this relationship wasn’t my choice.
He might have orchestrated a run-in, but that’s where it ends.
“You know what, Billy? You’re right. I only knew about her because of you. You brought her onto my radar. You, and no one else. Yeah, I liked what I saw and wanted to get to know her, but I left the ball in her court after I introduced myself. Sami has always called the shots when it comes to us. So you can say whatever it is you want, but you’re wrong. I didn’t manipulate her, I just love her. That’s it. Which is a lot more than you ever did for her.”
“You can’t love her. She’s mine! Mine. Mine. Mine!” Billy rants.
