I could feel that Holden was nearby. Even though I hadn’t yet caught a glimpse of her, I knew she was close. While the others took care of rounding up and incapacitating the enemy group, Sioux and I went about looking for Holden. At the very center of the yard was a huge abandoned warehouse. We both knew that she had to have been inside.
Sioux took off towards the building, and I was hot on his tail. He began to drag the door open. But as he started to pull, the sound of a gunshot rang off.
“Fuck!” Sioux cursed harshly and gripped his thigh as he fell to the ground in a heap. A heady bout of adrenaline suffused my system. My rational mind was almost eclipsed with the need to kill whoever had just shot my brother.
“Best of both worlds, it’s good to be prepared,” the female voice came from near the side of the building. She leveled a hefty looking silver gun at me, I snarled at her, ready to tear her head off.
“You fucking bitch! You think a gun will stop this? You lost!” Sioux shouted, though his voice was full of pain.
“You move, and I’ll put a bullet in you as well,” she told me as I was about to jolt forward. She was flanked by two huge ass men. This wasn’t a good situation. “Don’t you know about safety in numbers?” she said, fucking gloating. I knew that if we waited just a bit longer, the others would start filtering into the area, and we’d have backup.
“I think we should talk terms,” she told me. I was silent in return. “Okay…so I guess I’ll tell you how things will go then.” She walked forward with her bodyguards. She looked to be about our age, in her upper twenties. She had blonde hair, cut short, and a permanent scowl on a plain-featured face. She was short too, a perfect target.
“So, here’s how it’ll go from here on out. You’ll secede half your territory to us, and open Houghton as neutral ground,” she said as a matter of fact. I snarled at her again. The bitch was out of her mind if she thought I was talking terms with her.
“You’re not getting anything!” Sioux shouted.
“Oh please, says the insignificant twin currently bleeding out on the ground. Why don’t you save your energy and shut up?” she snapped at him.
All that talk was enough, though. I caught movement just over one of her shoulders. Then about ten people came padding silently into the area. The men both roared behind her and started to circle around her protectively. She really was their ‘fearless leader.’ Even though she held the gun, there was plenty of wariness and fear in her eyes.
“If any of you so much as move, I swear I will shoot him dead!” she waved the gun in my direction just as a huge rock went flying at her hand. She didn’t have time to react because she didn’t see it coming. None of us did. My head whipped to the right, and I saw Holden standing in the small opening Sioux made in the doorway just before he went down. The moment of shock was enough for the men to jump into action. They dragged the two bodyguards off, and the leader was defenseless. She was surrounded by the remaining men and blocked off from her gun. Checkmate. Stupid bitch.
11
Holden
If a rock was all I had to offer, then by all means, I made sure to throw that shit. It worked out well too, now she was surrounded.
“It’s okay Holden, you can come out,” he told me. I nodded and ran straight to Sioux. He was bleeding from his thigh, but not dangerously so. Thank God his femoral artery hadn’t been nicked.
“It doesn’t hurt…” Sioux said through clenched teeth. He tried to give me a smile but grimaced instead.
“You don’t have to act all macho around me, Sioux. I know you’re tough,” I laughed, though I really wanted to cry. I also had such a burning need to exact vengeance on that woman; it was a strange cocktail of emotions. I quickly undid my belt and tightened it around his wound. Sioux’s face went ghostly white, and I worried about him passing out.
“I didn’t know getting shot would hurt so fucking much. I always saw on TV how people could keep running and fighting and shit with a bullet in them. But it’s all lies,” he said in true Sioux fashion. The only one attempting to lighten the mood in such a situation. I glanced over at Aleister who was very obviously deciding what to do with that woman.
“Aleister…kill her,” I said. His head whipped around, and he looked at me in surprise.
“Why?” he asked me, his eyes searching my face.
“She killed my dad,” I said. The men surrounding her all snarled viciously. Aleister’s eyes became murderous all over again. Even Sioux sat up to yell at her.
“You bitch!” he said, though I was sure should he had been stronger the words would have held more vehemence in them.
“Now let me tell you what’s going to happen…We’re going to round up your entire group and execute you in front of them. Give them a lesson about crossing us, and about following a leader like you,” Aleister said and spat on the ground. He told his men to keep her sitting tight and then took off into the lumber yard.
“Hey, you’re a vet, right?” Sioux asked me and I refocused on him.
“Yeah…” I said, a small smile tugging at my lips.
“Do you think you could take this bullet out of my leg?” he asked me and I shook my head at him, smiling at his joke.
“I’d need the proper tools, Sioux. We have to get you to a hospital,” I said.
“Did she hurt you?” he asked me.
“Not as bad as this,” I said, gesturing to his wound. I turned my head when I felt the presence of more men joining us. They were pushing forward injured guys.
“Today…I am doing you all a service,” Aleister said in a voice loud enough for everyone to hear him. He had a power to his tone that commanded attention. He stood next to the lady and picked up her own gun, pointing it directly at her temple. “This woman would have led you to your ultimate demise. She started the killing, her lead. She is the reason you all are injured; the reason your kin are dead. Instead of approaching my brother and me peacefully with a request for aid in finding a territory. She chose to try and take our land from us.” Aleister chuckled, the sound, dark and foreboding.
“You all are alive because of my command, remember that. But as for your leader, to set an example and atone for the crimes she’s committed, the innocent lives she’s ruined or taken outright, she will be executed.” Aleister said. The migrants didn’t even have a reaction. They were defeated. Aleister cocked the gun and glanced at the woman. “Any last words before you atone for your crimes?” he asked her.
“We will regain respect amongst you again. You just wait! Don’t let this small defeat set you back in trying to find a home brothers, sisters!” she said with nothing but contempt in her tone. Without any further preamble, Aleister shot her. She hit the ground like a sack of flour. Aleister told his men to drive the migrants well out of both the Carol and Blake Town territory. After that, he embraced and thanked one of the them before he ran over to Sioux and me.
“How is he?” he asked.
“I’m in pain!” Sioux answered.
“We have to get him to a hospital or something, the bullet needs to be taken out,” I said. Aleister called over a few of his friends to carefully lift Sioux up.
“There’re no cars,” I said.
“Your truck is here…” Aleister told me. I gasped, another reason to dislike those people. Thankfully, though, the truck was parked just to the side of the warehouse. Sioux was put into the bed of the truck and we took off.
“This is going to kill him, but we need to go fast,” Aleister murmured. I glanced back at Sioux; he was surrounded by his brothers in the flatbed of the truck. I knew he’d learn to hate his brother after we got moving through the woods. There weren’t any trails nearby, so it’d be bumpy, to say the least.
“Are you hurt, Holden?” Aleister asked me. I shook my head.
“I’m fine, she didn’t really give me any lasting damage,” I said and took a deep breath.
“Can you at least promise me that you’ll let the doctors check you out, too?” he asked.
/> “Sure, but what will we tell them?” I asked.
“Target practice accident. We were shooting cans in the woods,” Aleister shrugged. I nodded and absorbed the lie. I needed to be convincing because the doctors would definitely not believe the truth.
* * *
“Holden!” Scout came barreling into the hospital. I know the last thing she needed was to be panicked over my well-being once again. But then I saw Isaac on her tail, and I smiled. Well at least she was taken care of. “Are you okay? What happened?” she asked as she rushed into Sioux’s private room.
“Shh,” I shushed her in a gentle way as I stood up to hug her. “I’m fine,” I said.
“All I heard was hospital when you called me, so I freaked out,” she admitted.
“It’s okay; I’m fine. It’s just Sioux…he got shot in the thigh,” I said and gestured to him sleeping in the bed. He was knocked out on strong pain meds. The regular stuff kept wearing off due to his metabolism speed.
“How’d he get shot?” she asked. I glanced at Isaac who slightly shook his head at me. Apparently, he tells her absolutely nothing.
“The men drove out the migrants,” I said, giving her the super condensed version, leaving out the abduction part.
“Oh my goodness, that’s great! I mean horrible that Sioux got hurt, but we don’t have to worry about the woods anymore,” she said in relief.
“That was the plan,” Aleister smiled.
“Either way, you’re protected in the woods,” Isaac told her. When they looked at each other, I could see the intimacy and felt a little like a matchmaker seeing them together.
“When does he get out?” Isaac asked Aleister.
“Whenever he wakes up, we’re getting him out. Since the bullet is removed, he should heal quickly,” Aleister said.
“So where were you when they were off fighting?” Scout asked me. “I called you…”
“Ah, I was…” I glanced at Aleister, looking for some help.
“You were with your friend, Zoey…?” he offered.
“Zoey is all smitten with her cop boyfriend…where were you?” Scout asked again. I sighed, feeling like she was my parent at the moment rather than my sister.
“I was at the lumber yard with them…” I murmured.
“Oh my god, I think my heart stopped,” Scout said, reaching for Isaac, who smirked at her.
“Before you get all worked up, I’m fine,” I reiterated.
“But you could’ve been—”
“But I wasn’t,” I grinned.
“Yeah, but what if—”
“But it didn’t happen,” I said, keeping my grin. Aleister tried to cover his laugh with a cough and Scout rolled her eyes at him.
“Hey, this is the last time she gets in danger,” Scout told him, and he became serious very quickly.
“She won’t be put in harm’s way because of us again. I swear it,” he said solemnly. Scout took a deep breath and actually let it go. I was shocked.
“Wow…you have a good effect on her,” I said to Isaac, patting his arm. Scout gave me a bland look, and Aleister laughed all over again. There was a knock on the hospital room door before a woman who had Sioux and Aleister’s eyes poked her head in.
“Mom, come in,” Aleister said, getting up. Their mom was on the shorter side, and her resemblance to her sons ended at the eye color. She had blonde hair and pretty pixie features, and she looked anywhere from her late thirties to somewhere in her middle ages. It was difficult to tell. Following her in was a very big man who looked so much like Aleister and Sioux it was scary. Only he had bright blue eyes instead of their gray ones.
“Holden, these are our parents, Al and Sophie,” he introduced me to them, and I stood up to shake their hands.
“It’s so nice to finally meet you! Sioux and Aleister talk about you all the time,” Sophie gushed. Even though I shook her hand, she gave me a hard hug.
“I heard that you had a lot to do with saving the day,” Al said, his eyes seemingly glittering with his smile.
“Oh…it was just a rock,” I said, trying to play it down. But at that precise moment, Sioux woke up and started to laugh as if he heard everything. Soon everyone in the room was laughing. I let Al and Sophie visit with Sioux and blended into the background with Scout.
“I like this…it feels like family,” she said.
“Yeah…me too,” I said and sighed contentedly. “Don’t you kind of feel like, maybe dad left this for us?” I gestured to Isaac and Sioux and Aleister.
“I really do,” she said. For the first time since he died, I didn’t feel such sadness when thinking about my dad. I was more at peace with him not being with us. Of course, I’d always miss him, but…he wasn’t gone.
“So, should we tell Zoey about this at all?” I asked. Scout laughed and shook her head.
“We’ll tell her we have boyfriends and that’s that,” Scout said. “She’s way too dramatic to handle the truth,” she added. I laughed just imagining it. Yeah, Zoey would definitely freak out. Once it was clear that Sioux was shaking off the pain medications, Aleister, Isaac, and a few other guys made a plan to smuggle him out of the hospital.
“So you gotta stand right there, block the view of the little window and mute the machines, Isaac. Then put them directly onto Finn, you gotta be fast, or they’ll see it on the big monitor out there,” Copeland was all hyped up about the plan. It was hilarious.
“Then, once all the leads are off, we’ll cover Sioux with the sheet like he’s dead—”
“Why can’t we just make it seem like he’s being transported?” Aleister asked.
“How about we just steal a wheelchair?” Joe, another member of the group, suggested.
“We can’t, they’ll be suspicious as to why the wheelchair is coming in here,” Copeland explained. He seemed to have experience in breaking people out of hospitals. I wondered if I should be concerned at all.
“So, we cover him with the sheet and then what?” Aleister asked.
“We cover him with the sheet and get him down one of those huge patient elevators. It always leads to the back hallways of the hospital, where we’ll go mostly undetected. Then we’ll wheel him right out to the getaway car,” Cope finished as if that plan would be a piece of cake.
“I suppose I should get ready to make a large donation to the hospital,” Al sighed. I couldn’t help my smile.
“All right, don’t move, Sioux.” Aleister said while Copeland covered him with the sheet. Isaac was discreetly disconnecting all of Sioux’s wires.
“This is actually happening right now?” I chuckled.
“Holden, what are you doing? We need a getaway car, go pull your truck around to the emergency room side entrance!” Copeland said. “Scout, we need a backup getaway car too!” he told her. I grabbed my purse and hurried out to go pull my truck around. About one minute after I put the car in park, the doors were being opened, Sioux was loaded in, and Aleister was yelling at me to ‘hit the gas!’
“Go to your house, Holden!” Sioux called from the backseat where he was laid out on.
“If I get arrested for stealing you out of a hospital, you two are breaking me out,” I laughed.
“Of course, that goes without saying,” Aleister said, all nonchalant. When we got back to my place, the guys got Sioux all settled into my bed, like a king. Scout thankfully trailed behind me the entire time, so she was there to give Isaac and Cope a ride back. When everyone was gone, I took a deep breath and soaked in the quiet.
“Come on,” Aleister pulled me away from the front door and upstairs with Sioux. I curled up into Sioux’s side on the bed, and Aleister laid behind me, sort of spooning.
“So…that was fun,” I said sarcastically, making Aleister laugh.
“Our parents love you,” Sioux said.
“Because I threw the rock?” I asked, chuckling.
“Because you threw the rock, yeah.” Sioux laughed.
“Holden…how do you feel about us? In all hones
ty,” Aleister asked me curiously.
“Well I love you both,” I said without thinking, without hesitation. I meant it too, more than I realized. I loved them. “I love you,” I said again, that time smiling brightly at both of them.
“I think you healed me just saying that,” Sioux said blissfully.
“There’s only one thing left to say then,” Aleister took a deep breath, and I quirked an eyebrow at him curiously.
“Will you be ours…forever?” Aleister asked me. I couldn’t help the huge grin that stretched across my face.
“Is this a proposal?” I asked, teasing him by making him wait for the answer.
“Don’t torture us Holden, will you?” Sioux asked, giving me his best puppy eyes.
“Of course, I will,” I said with ease and more happiness than I thought I could feel all at once. “Of course, I will,” I repeated, looking at Aleister that time. His smile broke records it was so bright. He cupped my face in his hands and gave me a tender kiss on the lips. When I turned to Sioux, he was already halfway there. He pressed his lips to mine and released a relieved breath.
“So, uh…how does your thigh feel?” I asked Sioux who gave me a salacious grin.
“Honey, it’s just fine.” He said and sat up against the headboard.
“I wanted to try…having you both…at the same time,” I said, feeling shy all of a sudden. Both Sioux and Aleister were excited though, their eyes lit up.
“Anything you want, Holden,” Aleister murmured. He brushed my hair back and kissed my neck. I sat up so that they both could reach me more easily. Aleister pressed his lips to mine, his hand swept up along my side, grazing my breast. I felt Sioux undoing the buttons of my flannel shirt. Then his mouth was on my breasts, sucking on the soft cups. Aleister licked slowly into my mouth. We made out like high school kids, while Sioux undid my bra then started to suck on my nipples. I already felt the moisture in between my legs and the heat spreading out from my core.
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