Ride or Die (Rejects Paradise 4)

Sirens are heard in the distance, and I don’t doubt that they’re coming here, but no one moves an inch, not one of them scared of a badge.

Christian remains still, unrelenting in his stare and not prepared to give up on his boss as the rest of them cower behind their cars. “What’s it going to be?” Christian asks. “End this now, and we can all avoid jail time.”

Eli grumbles beside me. “Think about your mom,” he urges. “All of our moms. If you’re not there, she’s got no one.”

A sharp grunt comes tearing out of Nic, telling Eli to watch his mouth, and then finally, Nic raises his gun again, making the rest of the Widows follow suit. “Slowly,” he warns Christian. “Get your boss and then get the fuck out of here.”

Christian doesn’t waste any time moving forward, but when Snake steps out from behind a car door to help, Nic fires off a warning shot, and the coward instantly retreats.

Christian keeps his eyes on Nic as he reaches his boss and instantly snaps the cable ties before hauling Russo over his shoulder in the same way I had. He backs toward the Wolves as the sirens get louder. The seconds tick by, and the closer Christian gets to his car, the quicker he starts to move.

The Wolves start packing themselves into their cars, and when Russo is thrown into the backseat of someone’s shitmobile, they all start taking off, hightailing out of here and leaving me and the Widows to finally take a breath, but it’s not over yet.

“Get out of here,” Nic grumbles beside me as the sirens hit the end of the street.

“What?” I question.

Nic steps into me and snatches the machine gun out of my hands. “Get the fuck out of here. You saved my boys’ asses. I won’t forget that.”

I glance back at Sebastian, Eli, and Kairo, who all nod, silently urging me to just go and not look back. So without missing a beat, I run to my Veneno and drop down into it before flying out the back entrance of the building.

I cut around the back of the warehouse and have to go around the block before finally coming up the side of Nic’s warehouse. I can’t help but slow the Veneno to a crawl and find seven cop cars all moving in on the Widows. Nic stands front and center just as he had during the whole shoot out with his hands up. He slowly places the machine gun down on the ground while keeping his eyes locked on the cops. His men follow suit, and with all weapons down, the cops make their move.

Nic is slammed down on the hard concrete as the rest of the cops make an impenetrable barrier, blocking the Widows from jumping in. Nic is put in cuffs, and within seconds, his ass is hauled into the back of a cop car. Lines of officers are collecting the guns from the ground, preparing to raid the warehouse for whatever else they could find.

Not wanting to be caught here, I hit the gas and take off down the road, wondering how the hell I’m going to explain this to my girl.Chapter 22OceanTwo freshmen girls come running the wrong way through the hall as everyone tries to escape through the corridor to finally put an end to this long ass day. “Holy shit, did you see him?” one of the girls squeaks to the other, making her friend giggle and blush.

“He was so hot and that body. I’d let a guy like that plow right through me. Who cares about saving myself for Brandon next week. I should go back out there and offer myself up like a buffet. I wonder if he’d screw me right there on the front of his car. Hell, I’d even let you watch.”

My eyes widen as I watch the two girls run past. Are they kidding? They’re only freshmen, and they’re talking like that for everyone to hear? Have they even hit puberty yet? Have their periods? Holy shit.

The girls and their comments instantly fall from my mind as I get closer and closer to the door and begin hearing their adoring, needy whispers.

“Holy shit.”

“Did you see that?”

“What’s he doing here?”

Dread instantly fills me. The last time some random guy was welcoming himself into the school, it was Nic, and the time before that, Sebastian. I mean, who else would get that kind of reaction from the girls of BSP?

I start preparing myself for the worst. Sebastian won’t risk coming here again, and I highly doubt it’s Nic coming to grovel on his knees or to beg for forgiveness. It’s either Kairo or Eli and seeing as though it’s been a pretty good day, I could probably get through a whole meeting with them without losing my shit or telling them to get fucked. Hell, I guess they deserve some brownie points for waiting until school let out.