Chapter 60: Chapter 60

JACE `JR` ASHER/ TRIGGER

LEFT, RIGHT, FRONT, THE beeping machines haunted me. I hadn’t slept a fucking wink not that it had mattered because the fucking doctors took their time in there.

Four hours and counting, they’d completed the surgery but none of them geeky fucks had showed their asses to explain what was going on.

How was she?

How was my kid?

“How are you holding up?” Ontario shot me a passive look and I shot him an equally tired one.

Everyone was here but, in all honesty, I felt alone. I felt helpless and most of all I felt like someone had gutted me and yanked my entrails from my body.

The chief, Flames, had brought every goddamn man in B&A to console my ass but he’d avoided me entirely and I had a good hunch it was because of the one man no one talked about.

My bloody fucking asshole of a brother.

The one who’d escaped his grave and unleashed hell on me.

I didn’t answer. Ontario lay his arm across my shoulder.

“You should have never fallen in love, buddy. Christ, you look worse than MAVERICK when I accidentally choked his pet hamster”

“It was a guinea pig, you fat fuck”, Maverick quipped behind me.

Ontario chuckled and for the fuck of it, my lips curled in a tight smile. It was all I could do to prevent myself into falling in a limbo of what-ifs and what next.

“Your woman will live”, Tequilla shot behind me, Maveric gave him a look, ONTARIO WELL THE FUCKER WAS SO GLUED TO me I could hardly breathe.

“I’ll take a breather”, I said pulling out of the couch that had become my dear old pal for almost twelve hours.

Ontario stood up. Flames and Mia who’d been busy going at it with Misha and Jason glanced my way. Hell everybody in the goddamn room stared and it pissed me off.

“Alone”, I said storming out of the suffocating waiting area with a hot iron jabbed deep in my heart.

They were worried I’d do something crazy and I would.

After I got the news Lucia and my baby were fine, I would hunt the fuckers who did this and exterminate them. That was the mission, that was what gave me strength and then afterwards, I’d eliminate Kade Hawkins from the face of the earth.

The gulp of fresh air might have eased my nerves, the bagel stand next to me might have made my stomach growl but the distance I had maintained between me and my princess ate me up.

What if she could sense I wasn’t near? What if she could sense I wasn’t by her side? What if she gave up--?

My jaw rippled.

None of this was fair.

The sun wasn’t supposed to shine like that without Lucia bathing in its light. The sky wasn’t supposed to be clear and so blue if Lucia wasn’t there to see it. None of these damn people deserved the world like Lucia did.

Because my princess? My princess deserved everything this fucking world had to offer.

She deserved to live.

She deserved to be happy.

And she deserved a lot more than what being with me had cost her.

God, she deserved to be a mother to our wonderful kid who’d turn out like her. Big dark eyes, biggest smile I had ever seen and that innocence Lucia carried. Our child would be like that.

Our child would live to see this whole fucking world and have me as her or his father.

And for the first time in my life, something prickled my eyes and I felt my eyes pool with wetness.

But I refused to cry. Crying was weakness. Callan Asher wouldn’t have cried even at the toughest shit. Even when he knew he was dying, I don’t remember my father crying.

He tackled shit head on and I was going to do the same.

Man, the fuck up and tackle shit head on.

I breathed in for about two minutes before my phone broke the tranquil silence I had engulfed myself in.

I chose to ignore it. It rang for two seconds, dying down before another call broke the air.

“Motherfucker”

I cussed taking the damn thing out.

The caller ended the call before I could pick it.

Some video notification hogged my screen and I would have ignored it but every damn person in my contacts was inside the hellish hospital BEHIND ME, none of them would have sent me some video given the circumstances.

Ontario maybe. But this number…the call…everything rubbed me the wrong way as I pressed on the video.

Guilt stabbed my conscience.

My heart jumped into fifth gear I could hear its galloping rhythm terrorize my ears.

“Shit”

It was a two-minute video and yet it felt like I was being subjected to watch a maniac clip off my toe nails for a bloody eternity.

My sister looked at me through that screen. Beaten up, probably rap—I would kill them.

Fuck, fuck, I would kill them! I would eviscerate the Zetas.

The minute the video ended, a call from the same fucker who’d sent the video came in and I answered it my heart lodged in my throat.

“Jace ‘Lucas JUNIOR Hawkins’ Asher, I take it you saw the video. And I take it you want to rip the person who has her apart. You want to kill me and it’s your lucky day boy because I’m generous enough to tell you where she is.

You want her, come get her. Come alone, try anything funny. ..Try to tell your pals about what’s happening and I won’t be so kind to your sister. After all she’s a tasty little thing, fucking beautiful than anything I’ve seen for a while—”

“You lay a single fucking hand on her and I’ll—”

“That all depends on you, boy. The longer you take your time, the longer you consult your friends, the more impatient I get and there’s nothing worse like an impatient hungry dog. A hungry dog will eat just about anything to survive and an impatient one? Even worse, it’ll do whatever it takes to make sure it’s full.

Turn to your left, you see the man selling bagels, he has everything you need to get to her. A ticket FOR ALL THE WAY here, all the necessary weapons you need to play hero. Do anything to my man, try anything funny and you’ll not be losing a sister today, you’ll be losing everything. It takes just one snap of my fingers for the very building you are standing outside of to explode.

Don’t be late. Clock’s ticking. Tick. Tock. Boy”

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