Jigsaw's Blayde: RBMC Tonopah, NV by Nikki Landis

Author:Nikki Landis [Landis, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nikki Landis
Published: 2023-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Meeting the Reaper—

I rolled to a stop in front of my house, squeezing Abby’s thigh. We both noticed her father’s SUV parked on her driveway. This couldn’t be good.

She stood and handed over the helmet, telling me she would come back in a few minutes. I accepted the fact that her father would cause problems, and I planned to deal with it once I could. Right now, I focused on breathing, staring at my front door.

Inside, I could hear raised voices. Arguing. What the fuck went down in the two hours I wasn’t home?

My lungs squeezed as if they couldn’t drag in enough air.

Ever know something horrible has happened before you learn the news?

Has your heart ever felt like it stuttered and skipped beats, alerting you to a life-changing, devastating loss?

I knew my family wasn’t okay. My pops or Heather? I wasn’t sure, but if the persistent ache and raw, visceral pain throbbing inside my chest was any indicator, someone had died.

Someone I loved.

My feet dragged with every step toward my front door. Heavy lead weighed my boots down. I sucked air into my lungs, forcing myself to breathe.

The door opened as I reached it, immediately noticing the full living room. Every member of the Tonopah, NV Royal Bastards faced me but one.

“Noooooooooo,” I cried out, dropping to my knees. My fist slammed into my chest over my heart. I could feel it—the emptiness. The gaping hole left behind because I lost the person I loved most in this world.

My father, Hale Sturges, the enforcer Vice, was gone.

Grief so overpowering I couldn’t hold it in erupted from inside me, pouring out as I screamed, cursed the heavens, and lost my fucking shit. I pounded the floor with my fists. My eyesight blurred with unshed tears.

No. NO!

Footsteps echoed behind me, and then the soft, broken voice of my redheaded angel. She threw her body into mine and sobbed, sharing in my sorrow. I couldn’t fucking handle the shock of it. Learning of my father’s death unhinged me. I would have taken off on my bike and gotten into an accident if not for Abby.

She plastered her body to mine when I tried to move, forcing me to remain with her. I began trembling and couldn’t stop. Adrenaline and pain flooded my body. And then I went numb. No thoughts. No concept of time.

My arms held Abby against me as if I stood and watched everything unfold from a distance. A total out-of-body experience. It wasn’t real. Couldn’t be, right?

My father had to be alive. Please, God. Let this be a nightmare. Ask me to do anything, and I will.

Bargaining was idiocy. No one could bring back the dead.

A hand rested on my shoulder. Grim. My pres.

“I’m sorry, son. This is fucking killing all of us.”

I panted out breaths, still clutching Abby against me. Was it only this morning that I told my father I loved her?

“I can’t, uh, fuck,” I stammered, unable to form words.

No!

My mind kept screaming the word, chanting it over and over in my head, hammering the finality of it into my skull.

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