by Mallory Funk
I manage to keep my attention on the car that was in front of me and what I see has me screaming in horror. I hear the sounds of the other women screaming.
When the car drives away, I completely register what happened.
I run over to Shield as he’s lying on the ground and blood is forming around him.
I sit beside him with tears streaming down my cheeks.
“Shield… SHIELD!!! You have to wake up for me!” I yell hysterically.
“Oh god, please tell me he’s okay,” Ella comes beside me with a sob catching in her throat.
I hear Stacey on the phone saying an ambulance will be here soon, and Olivia is calling Steal yelling into the phone what happened.
I feel around Shield’s neck for a pulse and I only feel a bit better when I feel one. I’m still stuck with a whole bunch of worry when I realize that the pulse is faint.
The next few minutes are a blur. When the ambulance finally arrives, I hear a bunch of motorcycles. My legs almost give out to the sight of the club. I just know that Colton is among them.
All of us rush into our men’s arms. The ambulance pulls away and we are answering questions on what happened. I hear them say they have a security camera of it from the shop we were at.
“I was standing there talking to you and the next thing I know, I’m on the ground,” I say with a sob.
Then Colton tightens his arms around me. I let out a hiss and that’s when I remember that I have scrapes. I was so concentrated on Shield that I didn’t think at all about what happened to me.
Colton pulls back and, when he sees me holding my side, he lifts my shirt to see the long scrape. I also have a tear on the side of my pants from the road. I just know that I’m going to bruise if I haven’t already.
I get placed in Shield’s truck and a prospect is driving me to the hospital. I hear the bikes following behind us.
I can barely keep my eyes open as my body starts to crash from the intensity of everything that happened.
Trigger ‘Colton’
I don’t think that I have ever been so terrified in my life.
I heard the sounds of people shouting Sophie’s name, and then the phone got cut off.
I ran from the shop cursing.
When Crash asked me what’s going on, I could only yell “Sophie!” I heard the sounds of bikes following me and knew that I had my brothers at my back.
I looked in horror at the scene in front of me.
I could see the ambulance and police around the women. All the Old Ladies were crying. When I saw Sophie standing, I felt relief that she was okay, but then I looked at the ground and saw the paramedics who were working on an unconscious Shield. There was blood surrounding him.
“Fuck,” I curse as I make my way to my woman.
When she sees me, she clings to me with everything she has.
It takes longer than I care to admit for me to realize that she is injured.
I was concentrated on the relief that she wasn’t the one being rushed to the hospital.
That also brought a new wave of fear through me.
Shield is my brother through and through. We prospected together and got patched in together. We had both happened to earn our patches on the same night when the Devil Souls MC had tried to take Ella.
Seeing all that blood around him, I’m wondering if he’s going to make it to the hospital. I know that guy is a tough fucker and I fucking hope that I’m not saying goodbye to a brother.
We rush to the hospital. I didn’t want Sophie to leave my side, but I knew she wouldn’t have been able to ride on my bike with her injuries.
She’s passed out when we pull up, and I carry her in.
They had already rushed Shield off to surgery. The surgeon is actually a good friend of the club.
He tells us that he will be out when he is finishes the surgery and will let us know the extent of the injuries.
Sophie is being patched up in one of the rooms. She has flesh wounds and I am thankful that they weren’t deep. She had passed out from the adrenaline.
I head back over to her so that I can be by her side. They wanted to keep her for a few hours since they weren’t sure if she hit her head during the fall and wanted to take precautions. It could have something to do with pretty much the whole MC in the waiting room or outside. Everyone is here for Shield.
All the women come into the room and make sure Sophie is okay. She falls asleep while they are talking, so they leave. We have a couple brothers on guard outside the door.
One thing we know for sure is that someone had tried to hit Sophie. We won’t rest until we know who tried to take my woman out. I have a feeling I know who it is, and the fucker better watch his back because he’s about to be in a world of pain when I get through with him.
Chapter Eleven
Trigger ‘Colton’
Hours have gone by when the doctor finally makes an appearance. He lets us know that Shield is in critical condition and that the next seventy-two hours are the most crucial. The vehicle hit him quite hard. He has a brain swelling and a few fractured ribs with his left leg and arm broken. They can’t wake him up yet until the swelling goes down.
I watched as Sophie cried for him. Stacey let me know the details of what happened. Shield had seen the car and they were screaming for Sophie to move, but she didn’t. Shield took off faster than Stacey had seen anyone run and basically pushed her out of the way so that the car hit him. Her scrapes are from hitting the pavement when Shield moved her, but I can’t be angry at him for that. He saved my woman’s life. She’s much smaller than him and the impact of the vehicle would likely have been fatal for her.
Shield isn’t out of the woods yet. I really fucking hope he wakes up so that I can thank him for saving my woman. That brother once again had proven his name by saving my woman’s life while risking his own.
I get everything ready to get my woman home. She needs her rest to heal, but she doesn’t want to leave. They moved Shield to a room, but he’s not allowed visitors for very long. I promise her that I will bring her back once she gets cleaned up and eats. She reluctantly agrees.
I take her home to take care of her as much as she will let me because I can already tell that she’s going to be stubborn and want to be by Shield’s side.
I’ll give my baby whatever she wants, she’s alive and that’s not something that I could have said if it wasn’t for my brother.
Sophie
I spent day after day by Shield’s side. I couldn’t help but feel terrible and that it was my fault.
If I hadn’t had come here, and made Shield take me out to go shopping, then he would be fine. He threw himself in front of the vehicle so that I wouldn’t get hurt.
Trigger had taken me home but, after a short nap, cleaning up, and eating, I demanded that he take me back to the hospital to see Shield. He looked me in the eyes for a few minutes and nodded. I could tell that he wanted me to stay home and rest, but he must have seen how determined I was. Nothing was going to stop me from being at Shield’s side.
I was glad that, as the days went on, Colton hadn’t gotten jealous. I was afraid that he wouldn’t want me to sit with Shield every day during visiting hours, seeing it as more than me looking out for a friend who I see as a brother more than anything.
I also think that because the club has a brother watching the door that everyone feels I’m safe here. I don’t think that I will feel safe until we know where Vince is. He seems to have disappeared.
When the club contacted his father to find out where his son was, that didn’t go over well because Vince and my mother had told him that I was at a wellness retreat. Apparently, I wanted to look good for our wedding day.
My mother was planning the whole thing behind my back and I am set to marry Vince in two weeks.
I felt completely horrified. They seemed to be living like I was coming back and had everyone fooled.
That creeps me out more than I care to admit because I feel like someth
ing is coming and it doesn’t feel good.
I only hope that we will all be prepared when it happens.
Trigger ‘Colton’
I pull up to the hospital on my bike.
I already know that my woman is there. She had only left Shield’s side when visiting hours were over and she was asked to leave.
If I didn’t already know that I loved her, her devotion to ensuring Shield’s health would have definitely cemented it. She had already claimed my club and brothers as her own family whether she knows it or not.
I know she feels bad about him getting hit because there is this look of guilt on her face every time I see her with him. There is only one way that she’s going to believe that she isn’t at fault and that’s from Shield. He needs to be the one to tell her and reassure her. I hope that he fucking wakes up and tells her.
It’s been three long as fuck days. We’ve been waiting to hear from the doctor. The nurse assured me that he would be in soon. Since Shield didn’t have his family around anymore, he had put me up as his emergency contact.
I don’t know what went on with his family. He only told me that he didn’t want them to come around, especially if he was in the hospital. I wasn’t going to ask since that shit was private, and he would tell me if he needed to.
Prez, Damien, and Bear were all waiting with Sophie when I arrived. I gave them all a nod and immediately walked over to my woman. She smiled when she heard me walk in. I gave her a kiss that had her blushing, but I didn’t give a fuck who saw me kiss her. I want everyone to know that she’s mine. I’ve been completely possessive of her and will stake my claim over and over again if I have to.
It had gotten worse after we found out what that fuckhead Vince was up to. He obviously has plans to get her back, and I would really like to fucking know what they are.
I think about that fucker taking Sophie and thinking that he could try to get her to marry him. I have a feeling that he’s going to threaten or blackmail her.
I’m about to speak, when the door opens and the doctor walks in. I’m pretty sure everyone stops breathing. I feel Sophie tense in my lap.
He clears his throat. “I’m Dr. West. I have been watching over Tyler McAdams for the last few days. The swelling seems to be improving but it’s still too soon to know the extent of the damage until he wakes up. We are going to slowly wake him up once the swelling goes down, so he could be in a medically induced coma for a few more days to a couple weeks. We will let you know as he progresses.”
He looks at each of us before he nods and walks out the door. I was hoping to find out more, but the swelling around his brain still needs more time to go down. I didn’t see or hear anything that would leave me to believe that he had no chance of survival.
I need to believe that he’s going to be okay.
When I look at everyone else, it’s like they are having the same internal battle I have been having.
I sit and talk with everyone until it’s time to leave.
I leave with my woman on the back of my bike.
I have never felt more at peace than when I have my woman with me on my bike.
“What do you want for supper?” Sophie asks when we pull up and walk toward the front door.
I can’t help but grin at her. She shakes her head at me but gives me a slow smile. Her eyes become hooded and full of lust.
This woman drives me crazy. I’ve never wanted a woman more than I want her. I’ve waited a few days to have her since she was sore from the fall. I don’t plan on taking her hard. I would hate it if I hurt her.
When we get into the house, she surprises me by walking toward the bedroom lifting up her shirt slowly. I can’t help the growl that escapes me.
This woman is so fucking perfect for me. I love seeing the confidence she has now that she isn’t as shy around me. It’s like we moved into our house and a whole new light is shining in her eyes. She’s genuinely happy and I’m so fucking glad that I’m the reason.
When her shirt is off, she looks over her shoulder at me and bites her lip. There is a slight blush on her face, so I know that it has taken a lot of courage for her to start stripping in front of me.
I follow behind her placing my cut on a nearby chair. I see her put her hands on her jeans and slowly pull them down.
Fuck me.
She’s got on a red and black set of sexy as fuck underwear. I rip my shirt over my head and undo the button and zipper of my jeans.
I pull up to her just as she’s entering the bedroom. Her back is facing me with my hands on her hips. I start placing kisses on her neck as she moves her head to the side to give me more access.
The moan that escapes her lips has me fighting for control. Fuck, I love the sounds that come out of her. I move my hands to cup her breasts through her bra as I lightly bite her neck.
A shiver runs through her. Her reaction to me is amazing.
I slide my hands back so that I can unhook her bra. I then move my hands back over to her breasts so that I can give her nipples a light pinch.
She lets out a gasp before she makes a move to turn around.
As soon as she does, I crash my mouth down to hers. I’m so fucking hot for this woman.
She greedily kisses me back. Her hands come down to my pants and, when she realizes I already have them undone, she wastes no time in pushing them down.
I can’t keep my hands off her body. I run my hands down her back to her ass and give it a light squeeze.
I slowly walk her backwards until her knees hit the end of the bed.
“Get on the bed, baby. I don’t want to hurt you,” I say in a low voice.
She gets in the middle faster than I have ever seen anyone move. I can’t help the chuckle that escapes me.
I take off my boxers and climb on top of her, positioning myself between her legs and kissing my way up her body until I reach her mouth.
Her arms reach around, and she puts one hand in my hair gripping the ends as she thrusts her pelvis up to mine. Her panties are the only thing keeping me from sliding my cock into her right now. The thin barrier has me fighting for control.
I want to please her first. I want her to be lost in her pleasure before I take her, even if I feel like it has been years since I had her instead of days.
I make my way from her lips to her neck kissing and biting the spot I have found that drives her crazy. I start making my way down her collarbone to her breasts.
I move to one nipple while I pinch the other one, flicking my tongue around the tip before I lightly bite down. The moan that escapes her is so fucking hot that I do it again.
I make my way over to her other breast, giving it the same attention that I did the first one.
I feel her dig into my back.
“Colton please!” she says in a desperate voice. She’s not going to rush me though.
“Mmmmm baby… you have to wait… you aren’t going to rush me,” I say huskily.
I kiss down her body, kissing each side of her hips and upper thighs to heighten the anticipation. She probably has no idea what kind of sounds are coming out of her mouth.
I’m so fucking turned on, but I need to taste my woman and give her some pleasure before I fuck her. With how hard I am, I’m sure I won’t last long.
I slide her panties off and settle my upper body between her legs.
I take my time with her. “Come on, baby. I want you to come for me,” I say in between licking her clit and entrance.
When I feel her hand grip my hair in a tight grip, and she lets out a loud moan, I know she’s there.
I make quick work of grabbing a condom from the side table and positioning myself at her entrance.
The feeling I get when I sink inside of her is something that will never get old. I could never get sick of this woman and her body. It does fucking crazy things to me, like wanting to blow the second I’m seated inside of her, but that would be embarrassing so I take a minute to breathe and hopefully don’t embarrass myself after one st
roke.
I put a hand on one side of her head and the other I use to lift her leg at a slight angle.
I don’t make this fast. I can tell that she wants me to, but I know that she’s sore, so I keep telling myself to take my time.
When her arms come around my back and I feel the slight rake of her nails on my skin, I almost lose control.
I don’t. With slow and steady thrusts, we are both panting.
I look into her eyes and I hear her breath catch. Fuck.
When someone told me that you can see how much someone loves you by looking them in the eyes, I honestly believed that it was all bullshit, but now I know otherwise.
My Sophie is falling for me, if she hasn’t already.
I know this because I have already fallen for her.
She’s my woman through and through.
I never knew I wanted someone to look at me the way she’s looking at me right now.
We both find our release at the same time while looking into each other’s eyes.