“Jace?” Jonah and I said at the same time as my world closed in a little tighter.
“Why is Jace working with Darcy?” Rachel said from behind me.
Whipping around I saw Rachel, Mason and Shark standing behind Jonah and I honestly didn’t know which one I was going to kill first. Why fuck would they bring her here. “What the fuck are you doing here?” I said pushing the gun a little harder into Adam’s chin as I yelled.
“Watch what you’re doing with that thing.” Adam screeched trying to pull away from me.
“We know Darcy is working with Jace” Shark said, “we also know Darcy was sent by Mika to get Jack. Darcy was meant to take Jack to Mika as soon as she found him but Darcy and Jace aren’t following Mika’s rules anymore. But you already knew that.”
Son of a motherfucking bitch.
“Of course the drug officer knows. Are you here to take me down Agent? Or maybe you’d like to do something about the person holding a gun to my throat.” Adam squeaked, his voice restricted with the gun pressing into his throat.
“Sorry Adam, you’re too low down on the food chain for me to care about. As for the gun in your throat I don’t give a fuck if Denny kills you.” Shark shot back.
Before I could process this new information or my head could explode, Rachel grabbed Mason’s gun and moved so fast none of us saw her until she was standing in front of Adam the gun pointed to his temple. “Shark is not your concern Adam, I am. Now tell me where my fucking brother is keeping my son or I swear to God I will shoot you.”
Holy fuck, darting my eyes from Adam to Rachel I slowly raised my hand to the gun pointed at Adam’s temple. “Give me the gun Rachel.”
“No.” Rachel screamed, a single tear dropping from her eye. “He talks or I shoot him.”
Shit, she wasn’t lying, Rachel was ready to shoot him right here, right now. But no matter how bad we needed the information I could not let Rachel shoot Adam.
“Give me the gun baby.” I said tightening my hand around her hand on the gun.
“He’s not going to tell us anything if I don’t do this.”
“You don’t have to do this sweetheart. This is my job.” Locking eyes with her I pleaded. “Trust me baby.” For Lucca I would be anything and everything. But goddamnit I wasn’t Vinnie and I would not let her ruin her life by taking Adams life. For the first time since Vinnie’s death I saw the difference between us. Vinnie would let Rachel wreck her life without giving it a second thought, hell Vinnie would kill Adam the second he didn’t give him the answers he wanted. But Vinnie wasn’t here anymore, I wasn’t Vinnie and I sure as hell wasn’t going to let myself turn into him. Yes I would take Adam’s life to get my son’s back but only as a last resort, but what parent wouldn’t.
Nodding to Rachel she let the gun go, Jonah quickly pulled her back. Adam tried to make his move but before he could move I aimed the gun at his knee and pulled the trigger.
Adam screamed in pain as the smell of blood and burnt skin filled the room.
“You’ve forgotten who you’re talking to Adam, I’m Denny Garcia and I let no one touch what is mine. You thought I was over protective of Vinnie’s business well that is nothing compared to what I will do to protect my family. I wouldn’t kill for Vinnie but you better fucking believe I will kill to make my family safe. You should start talking right the fuck now Adam. I want to know everything you know or the next shot goes through your heart.”
Grunting in pain Adam cleared his throat twice before his weak and pained filled voice echoed around the room. “Jack knows something Mika really wants to know. He sent Darcy after him, which worked out perfectly for that crazy bitch because she is out for Mika’s blood.”
“What does Jack know? Is it about the Russian who betrayed him?” I asked.
“Something much better than a betrayer.”
“What’s better than that?” Shark asked his voice cracking with what I thought was panic.
Breathing deeply Adam squeezed his eyes shut. “I don’t know I just know it’s big.”
“What does Jace have to do with any of this?” Rachel whispered her voice shaky and tear filled.
“That little fucker was screwed from the beginning.” Adam laughed weakly, “Darcy had him long before she needed him to get Jack. She even promised him he could kill me after they took care of Jack.”
“Darcy picked him up right after you beat him. Darcy’s the reason you beat him.” Jonah yelled.
The evil look shining in his eyes confirmed it. Darcy and Adam had played Jace. “We had other plans for him but this was so much better. Actually truth be told we were going to have Jace seduce Olivia until you messed everything up Jonah.”
“You little fuck.” Jonah roared pushing Rachel away and lunging for Adam. Mason moved in quick pulling Jonah back.
“Darcy has Jace and Jack what the fuck does she want with Olivia and my son?” I snapped bringing the conversation back to the reason we were here. Harsh I know but right now I didn’t care for why or how I just wanted my boy back.
“Darcy thought Jack would talk if he thought she was going to kill Jace. Turns out Daddy Jack saw through her plan.”
“So Darcy took my son to make Jack talk.” I hissed fucking disgusted that someone would use a child like that. Not just any child my child.
“What does she want with Olivia?” Jonah asked sounding as broken as I felt.
“For someone reason Mika has made Olivia off limits. No one is to touch or harm her; it’s been that way since the day Shark took Alex’s life.”
Holy fuck.
“Alex Rees died of an overdose.” Jonah yelled pushing against Mason’s hold. “Is it true, did you kill Alex?”
Stepping away from Mason struggling to hold Jonah Shark’s body hit the door hard. “Now is not the time or place Jonah.”
A burst of laughter from Adam had us all looking back at him. “You are all chess pieces being played in someone else’s game.”
Slapping Adam across the face I gripped my fist into his shirt. “Where the fuck did Darcy take them. I want the address right now or I’m putting that bullet through your heart.”
Chapter 18
The three cars stopped across the street from a dirt road that led to Adam’s safe house. The house was in the middle of nowhere and a good five miles away from the closest neighbors. He didn’t know it yet but Adam was going to pay for helping Darcy like this. Inside Adam’s safe house Darcy and Jace were holding Olivia, Lucca, Jack and Ryan or JD as he was really known. We knew why Darcy was holding Olivia, Lucca and Jack, JD was the only one we didn’t have a reason for.
Jumping out of the car I made my way straight to Rachel. Gripping her arm I pushed her back into the car.
“Denny what the hell?” She screeched at me.
Sliding my hand to the back of her neck I grabbed her hair pulling her head back so I could see her face. “Stay in the car and do not move. If none of us come back in ten minutes you get your ass in the driver’s seat and drive to the nearest police station.” Not waiting for an answer I kissed her like it could be the last time, not stopping until we were both out of breath. Pulling away I slammed the door and took off towards the safe house.
“You do know she is not going to stay in that car don’t you?” Jonah asked jogging to keep up with me.
“Yeah, which is why we need to do this fast.”
Mason and Shark were taking the back while Jonah and I stormed the front. Four of us, two of them and if I had it my way those two wouldn’t be leaving alive.
With the house coming in to view Jonah touched my shoulder. “After this mess is cleaned up and we have Olivia and Lucca back Sharks a dead man.” Jonah hissed.
“You think he killed Alex?” I said looking over at him, Jonah nodded so I continued talking, “ok, but remember dead men don’t talk.”
“If he killed Olivia’s brother he’s already dead.”
Nodding and wincing internally at the shit storm that was to come I pushed it a
ll away and focused on getting Lucca back safely to his mother.
Crouching behind a bush Olivia carrying Lucca was visible through the massive window dominating the front side of the safe house. My heart sped up at seeing them but damn if it didn’t want to drop to the floor and thank someone for them both looking unharmed.
In that moment Olivia screamed dropping from view as a gunshot rang out. Not waiting for Jonah I took off running for the glass window. Without giving it a second thought I put my arm over my eyes and flung myself threw the glass. Like an explosion the shattering glass and splintering wood cut painfully through my skin and the sound ripped through my ears.
As soon as my feet hit the ground I opened my eyes to complete chaos. JD lay in the middle of the room bleeding, Olivia with Lucca in her arms was trying to pull away from Jace but Jace was too strong and brought Olivia’s forearm down over his knee breaking the bone instantly. Olivia screamed out as Jace made a grab for Lucca. Jack and Darcy fighting for control over a gun fell into a glass table shattering it as Darcy screamed for Jace to run. Jace looked up making eye contact with me. For a full second we stared at each other amongst the chaos. In that second I saw him make the decision to pick Darcy over his family and in that second I knew I would be killing him by the end of the night.
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Sitting in the car was hell; every little noise had me jumping out of my skin. Finally I could take it no more. I wouldn’t go into the house no, that would cause Denny to lose focus, I would just go close enough to hear what was going on.
Running through the dark I made my way down the drive as a scream so full of pain broke through the night. In a split second I forgot everything and found myself climbing through a broken window. My father and JD both lay on the floor bleeding, Jonah was carefully lifting a crying Olivia, her arm in an unnatural position. Denny wasn’t in the room and neither was Lucca. For the second time I completely lost it. Shaking violently and having to push the vomit back down my throat, I sank down to my knees on the broken glass screaming, “Where is Lucca? Where the hell is Lucca?” I was about to yell again demanding someone tell me where my little boy was when a gun was shoved into the side of my head.
“If I knew you would just offer yourself up like this Rachel I wouldn’t have taken the little brat.” Darcy said laughing.
“Why us Darcy?” Olivia said brokenly through pain and tears. “Why do you keep coming for us?”
Laughing a cruel laugh Darcy pushed the gun even harder into my head. “No us Liv, just you. You brought this to their doorstep. You and Alex.” She spat his name making it sound like a dirty word.
“What did Alex ever do to you?” Olivia asked surprise taking over some of the pain.
“It’s what he didn’t do that’s the problem. I was in love with him but he wouldn’t even look at me because of that goddamn bitch. He couldn’t even have her!” Darcy screamed hitting me with the gun as her hand started to shake. “No one can have something that is Mika’s.”
“All of this is because my brother didn’t want you?”
“Mika and Alex have to pay for what they did to me.” Darcy hissed.
“So that’s how Nick got involved with Mika?” Jonah asked through tight lips, “you pulled him into this because you couldn’t hurt Alex after the overdose so you went after the next best thing. The two people he loved most in this world.”
“You don’t even know the half of it.” Darcy snapped.
“Why Jace Darcy?” I whispered. If I was going to die right now I needed to know why my brother betrayed me.
“Jace was meant for Olivia, but then I needed Jack to talk. I wanted Jack, he wanted Adam. We were perfect together. It’s kind of a shame I have to kill him though; the boy was a firecracker in bed. Should have told us Jack, might have kept him alive.”
“Never in a million years would I tell you what I know.” My father said standing with a grunt of pain.
Clicking the safety off her gun Darcy spoke with a smile in her voice. “Tell me or I kill your daughter.” She sang.
I was going to die whether my father told her or not so what came next was said with my eyes shut tightly waiting for the pain. “Don’t tell her anything.”
“Fine don’t tell me. Say goodbye to your father.”
“No you say goodbye.” Mason whispered in a deadly quiet voice as he pulled the trigger on his own gun. A noise so horrible there weren’t any words to describe it sounded through the room as the gun Darcy was holding fell to the floor.
Chapter 19
Still kneeling in the broken glass I stared at Darcy’s glossed over green eyes. Blood was flowing towards me along with other stuff I didn’t even want to think about.
Denny came running into the room, his eye searching the room looking for me. When he saw me he stumbled, his back hitting the wall.
“Come on Rachel you have to move.” Mason said close to my ear.
I tried to move but nothing was happening my legs refused to follow my brains instructions.
Picking me up Mason carried me to Denny. Putting his arms around me Denny took me in his arms. I guess I was shaking because Mason wrapped a coat around me while whispering about me going in to shock. I don’t know why I would be going into shock it’s not like I’m the one that killed Darcy. Killed. Darcy was dead.
“It was Rachel or Darcy. You did the right thing.” My dad said limping as he walked across the room.
A loud yelp of pain from Olivia pulled me back to the here and now. Darcy was dead but if it wasn’t her brains all over the floor it would have been mine. “Where is Lucca?”
Shaking his head Denny cupped my face. “I’m sorry baby I lost them. Darcy and Jace had a backup plan. They had a car waiting out back, he sped away too fast, I couldn’t keep up. Shark’s out now looking for the car.”
A loud sob broke through my lips before Denny could finish talking. The hopes of getting my baby back were fading fast.
“We need to go now.” Jonah said carrying a whimpering Olivia in his arms. “Olivia’s wrist is broken she needs to go to hospital.”
“Go.” My dad said, “I’ll call this in.”
“No.” Jonah and Denny yelled at the same time.
Looking between Denny and Jonah my father looked like he was about to explode from anger. “Three of us were fucking kidnapped and a girl is dead, we have to call the police.”
“Sorry Jack but I can’t let you do that.” JD said slowly pushing himself off the floor, blood flowing from a large cut across his forehead. “This is a DEA undercover investigation. If the police found out about this mess there are undercover agents that could be killed by Mika and his crew.”
“Fuck.” My dad cussed.
“What do we do with the body?” Mason asked his eyes locked on Darcy’s dead body.
“Burn the house to the fucking ground and let her burn too.” Denny snapped already moving us towards the door.
As Denny carried me from the house I saw Mason go to Darcy’s body, kneeling down he whispered to her. I couldn’t hear the words but I saw the tear fall from his eye.
The next hour passed by in a blur of panic and fear.
Jonah, Olivia and JD left for the hospital, Denny, Shark and Mason did whatever it was one did to burn down a house so there would be nothing left come tomorrow.
While they did that my dad and I sat in the back of Denny’s car.
I was scared for the life of Lucca so nothing was really making sense to me but there was a voice in the depth of my brain that knew what Denny, Shark and Mason were doing was very wrong. I had officially become a part of the Denver underground.
My body stung all over from the glass cuts, but not even the pain mattered right now. The only thing that mattered was finding Lucca because without Lucca my life and Denny’s would be broken.
“Baby girl.” My father whispered, his hand gripping my knee.
“Why would Jace do this to us?” I choked out.
“I did this to you.” My dad whispere
d back. “I made a mistake. All I wanted was for you to be safe, and for Lucca to be safe after he was born. I should have never done what I did, if Denny had been there from the beginning no one in the Denver underground would have touched you and Lucca.” I wanted to tell my dad it was ok, that I understood but I couldn’t because he was right. He should have never interfered in my life like that. And if we never found Lucca, Denny would only ever have had a week with his son. Forever would be too short, so a week was nothing. “I’m so sorry Rachel.”
Not knowing what to say I turned to watch Adam’s safe house start to burn.
“Tell me you understand Rachel.”
“I need some air.” I mumbled getting out of the car so I didn’t have to talk to my dad. Too much was going on I didn’t have the room in my head to figure out how I felt about what he’d done to Denny and me.
Shark was watching the house quickly being over taken by flames and Denny and Mason were having a heated discussion off the dirt road.
Walking closer I watched Mason throw his hands in the air and Denny shake his head aggressively.
“You’re not thinking right. You took a life tonight Mason its fucking with your head.” Denny said loud enough for me to hear all the way across the street.
“Yeah and maybe if I hadn’t taken that life you and Rachel would have Lucca right now.” Mason yelled back his voice so harsh Denny took a step back looking like he’d just been hit.
“Mason you saved Rachel’s life. Stop acting like you did something wrong.”
“I did do something wrong!” Mason yelled. Pushing Denny out of the way Mason stormed down the dirt road, passed me without evening looking my way then got in his car and sped away.
I was about to go to Denny and found out what had just happened when my cell rang. Pulling my phone out I figured it would be Olivia so I didn’t look at the caller ID just picked up the call.
“Olivia?”
“Don’t say my name and do exactly what I say.” Jace said in a cold, hard voice. “If you want Lucca back you need to get Dad to tell you what Mika wants to know.”
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