Remember this car, Lucas? How much you loved driving it? We had a lot of fun times in that car. Maybe you’ll make new memories with Hailey someday.
Give the thumb drive to Phantom. Only she will be able to break the password.
Please make sure my daughter gets this box. Tell her it’s from her momma and that I loved her very much.
I love you, Lucas. You were the best brother any girl could have ever asked for.
Kitty.
Tears ran down my face as Jess read that last line. Reaching into the box, I picked up the matchbox car and smiled. She was right. She always was. I loved that car. I had so many good memories with her in that car. I knew if I closed my eyes and listened, I could hear her laughter when I sped down the old dirt road. Her yelling at me to go faster.
I was never going to hear her laughter again.
She was gone.
Really gone.
“Lucas?” Jess whispered, as she walked closer to me.
“I didn’t want to believe she left a message. I knew I wouldn’t be able to handle it. It’s like she’s still here, with me. It hurts, Jess. My heart hurts. She is gone. She isn’t coming back.”
Jess wrapped her arms around me, holding me tight as I cried into her shoulder. I wasn’t ashamed to show my feelings. I loved my sister and knowing I wasn’t going to see her anymore, gutted me. My sister was amazing. She was kind, funny, ornery and a pain in the ass but she was mine. It was hard to imagine a world without her in it. I didn’t know how people did this. How did they move on from someone they loved? How did they continue on with their lives? Somedays, I found it hard to get out of bed. How was Hailey going to grow up in a world without knowing her mother?
Kitty was the best of the best.
No one compared to her.
“Just breathe, Lucas,” Jess said, holding me.
Gathering my whit’s, I quickly kissed Jess and picked up the box. Jess placed the note back inside and I pocketed the toy car. That was mine. Nobody was touching it. Ever. When the box was closed and the metal latch secured, I placed the box in Jess’s bag, giving it to her for safe keeping.
Together we walked out of cabin three, into the sweltering intense heat to find, Judge, Maverick, Bones and Saber surrounded by several men with guns to their heads. In the middle of them was Toxic, who stood grinning at us.
“Well, well, well,” the mother fucker sneered. “I thought I was seeing things before back at the clubhouse. But I guess my eyes aren’t as old as I thought.”
Jess moved slightly behind me, her hands grabbing my shirt for support. This mother fucker made my woman’s life a living hell. He aided in the death of my sister. He was a dead man walking.
He had fucking balls showing up here out of the blue.
“I guess the little bitch told you, huh girlie,” Toxic asked, never taking his eyes off Jess. “It’s a fucking shame really. All she had to do was keep her fucking mouth shut. I knew when she found her brother that she would spill the beans.”
“I’m going to kill you,” I growled, reaching for my gun.
Toxic grinned wickedly. “No, I don’t think you will.”
Before I could reply, several guns went off as I watched in horror as my brothers, some who’d been part of the club for years, fell dead. He killed them without a second thought.
The man was pure fucking evil.
Toxic and the other men all laughed while he walked over and kicked Judge’s lifeless body. “Mother fucker, useless piece of shit.”
“You fucking bastard!” Jess screamed, as she tried to charge him. Grabbing her around the waist, she kicked and screamed, desperately trying to get to Toxic. “You are a monster!”
Toxic rolled his eyes and sighed. “Jesus you are still a fucking pain in the ass. Not stop being a bitch and get over here.”
“Fuck you!” she shouted.
This wasn’t going to end well. Even I knew that thirteen against two wasn’t the best odds. Add in the fact that Jess wasn’t armed and preferred saving people than killing them, it was all left on me. I only had a full clip in my gun and five extra clips. I had more than enough to cause some damage. If these fuckers wanted to play, I was game.