“Granite!”
“Alyx!” I yelled, pushing through a goddamn wall of men so I could get to her. But men came from behind and slammed me into the ground. “Onyx!” I cried, and he turned my way after slamming his fist in a cop’s face. “Get Alyx. Get her out of here.”
Immediately, he started to rush to her when a loud crack erupted, smoke blasting fucking everywhere, and I could no longer see any of them. All I felt were hands and bodies pinning me to the ground. I jerked hard, desperate to push myself up, fighting to get free. But the harder I fought, the more men rushed to hold me down.
“Alyx!” I narrowed my eyes, desperately trying to see through the gray smoke. My nose burned as I inhaled, the smell of sulfur potent and overwhelming. “Alyx! Fuck!”
Gunshots fired, bursting through the blinding chaos, and my heart stopped. It fucking stopped.
“Get her out of here!” I heard someone yell, and then I lost it.
A roar ripped from my throat, hitting the goddamn roof as adrenaline exploded in my veins. I had no idea where I got the strength, but somehow, I managed to jump up, knocking down the fuckers around me.
“Granite!” I heard Ink call. “Granite!”
“I’m here. Ink, where’s Alyx?” The smoke slowly started to dissipate, and I rushed ahead in the direction I saw her last. But she wasn’t there. I searched for her, but she wasn’t fucking there among the masked faces.
“Ink! Where the fuck is Alyx?” My heart thundered in my throat, my spine numb with fear—the fear of losing her.
I frantically searched around me and spotted Dutch on the floor clutching his chest as blood oozed through the slits of his fingers. “Jesus Christ! Dutch!”
“Find her. Find Alyx first,” he ordered as he steadied his back against the wall. “Find her.”
It was a fucking frenzy of violence and mayhem around us, but I managed to rush out the door, wild with the need to find her.
I stopped on the back porch, panicked and turbulent as I searched around me.
“Granite!”
I heard her. I fucking heard her voice, but I couldn’t find her. For a second, I hesitated while trying to find her when two men crashed into me, and I got a mouthful of fucking grass as my head hit the ground.
“Alyx!” I bellowed, feeling like panic was about to crack open my motherfucking spine while I fought to get free. “Alyx! Jesus fucking Christ! Alyx.”
“Stop, or I will shoot you,” the motherfucker behind me yelled while his knee pressed into my spine. He grabbed my wrists and twisted my arms behind my back while another guy pushed my shoulders down. Fighting back proved futile when I felt the cold metal of the cuffs around my wrists.
“You fuckers are making a mistake!” I growled, and that was when my eye caught movement in front of us, a black van pulling up. It happened so fucking fast, but when I saw Alyx being dragged to the van by more masked men, my heart wanted to jump out of my goddamn throat.
“Alyx! There. There she is. Go help her!” I thrashed, gritting my teeth, certain they would break at any moment. “Alyx!” No one was listening to me. They weren’t fucking listening.
“You motherfuckers! She’s right there. Let me fucking go.” A fist slammed into my side, but I was too focused on Alyx to even care about the pain that exploded up my ribcage.
I bent my knees, and with every ounce of power I had, I pushed myself up, knocking one of the fuckers to the ground. “Go help her!” But it was too late. The van door closed, and I heard the tires speed across the asphalt. “No! Jesus. No!”
One of the cops moved in front of me, and I reacted by slamming my head against his motherfucking nose. Blood gushed down his face as he fell, and I lurched to the side, stars exploding behind my eyes.
“You son of a bitch. Where is my daughter?”
I paused and looked up, right at the PC’s face. “What the fuck did you do?”
“Where is my daughter, Granite? She was in there a second ago, and now she’s gone.”
“Someone took her!” I squirmed, feeling like a goddamn rabid dog, ready to tear everyone and everything apart. “Let me fucking go so I can find her.”
“You’re not fooling me again, Granite. Not this time.”
Someone jerked me up, and I yanked forward. “Someone took her!”
“Don’t fucking lie to me.”