“That’s my boy. I’m going to get him.” I know I’ve fucking lost my mind and he’s right but I can’t think straight.
The beast inside me wants to kill. It wants vengeance. It wants blood.
“Aiden listen to me. You can’t get him back if your fucking dead. You—”
The sound of gun fire steals his next words away.
“Aiden and Dominic get out of here, we’ve been ambushed,” Massimo balks into the receiver.
I glance down below and see Jeshero walking into the house with my son and the gates to the house close behind them. Even if I could fly down there I wouldn’t get there in time.
“Come Aiden, let’s get out of here and come back with more man power. We’ll get him back,” Maksim promises tugging on my arm. “You can’t die here, Pakhan.”
That’s what snaps me back in focus.
I can’t die here. not like this.
We rush back down to join the men we left behind but the loud gun fire is enough to tell me they’re under attack.
Shit.Men in black masks swoop down from the trees like ninjas.
With a spray of bullets they take out five of Alejandro’s men and two of mine.
Maksim and I rush behind a thick tree to cover ourselves. I pull both my guns and fire fearlessly taking down a line of ten men as they come at me.
More come and the tree no longer serves as protection. Maksim and I move away from there heading back down to the meeting area where we know we have more men and Alejandro waiting.
But we’re being pursued.
We run as fast as we can shooting anything that moves. I have Maksim’s back and he has mine, until we get separated.
I don’t know how it happened, it just did, but I can hear him.
Then suddenly every fucking thing goes quiet. Quiet enough so I can think and I wonder how in the ever loving fuck they knew we were here.
“Aiden get down,” Maksim calls out throwing himself into me.
Two shots fire as I’m knocked to the ground.
One bullet left Maksim’s gun and lodged in the head of the masked man who was sneaking up behind me. The other bullet is in Maksim’s chest.
I rush to his side as he grabs at his wound and cries out. As the dark red blood flows from his chest I’m reminded of his words.
He’d take a bullet for me the same way his father took it for mine.
“Get out of here. Leave me,” he husks.
“No, I’m not.”
Panic fuels me, mingling with adrenaline and I pick him up, hauling him over my shoulder.
I can’t leave him. I won’t.
Summoning all the strength I have I run down the path with him and get down to where Alejandro is. he seems to have had the same shit happen to him. there are dead men everywhere, but he looks like he cleared them.
He sees me coming with Maksim and runs to meet me half way.
“He’s been shot,” I shout. “This is my cousin.”