Oliver (Inked Menace MC 2) by Ryanne Hawk

Author:Ryanne Hawk [Hawk, Ryanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fused Publishing
Published: 2015-07-06T05:00:00+00:00

10 Chapter Ten

The thick air was pregnant with dark thoughts as their small party made it to the garage and found the van on the second level parked close to the stairwell under bright lights. Oliver had to laugh at the prospect. It wasn’t like they were humans who were scared to walk alone at night. He supposed it was pretense though, and part of their cover.

Hammer unlocked the doors with the click of a button, and as Maura sidled into the front seat, Amara and Oliver piled in the back.

“Well, isn’t this cozy,” Amara murmured.

The rear of the van was empty except for some metal shelving attached to one of the walls. Oliver shut the door and sat down with his back against the other wall. He shrugged when Amara sat down next to him and stretched her long, thick legs out straight.

“Hard to toss bodies inside when there are seats, so we got rid of them.”

“The bodies or the seats?”

He sent her a sexy smirk. “Both.”

She shook her head and smiled for a second before her face hardened by whatever thoughts had just twisted her up.

“Ready to go home?” Hammer said and started the van. A steady rumble soothed Oliver’s frayed nerves.

“Do you hear that?” Amara said and jerked herself to sit upright, eyes wide as she looked left and right, then at her sister.

“Hear what?” Oliver said.

“The bloody ticking.”

Maura stopped talking and tuned into their conversation as Hammer put the van in gear and started to back up.

“Patrick, stop the van.”

Hammer didn’t question her demand, which made Oliver hyper-focused, and then he heard it. The sound was so faint he marveled at Amara’s sensitive hearing. The van jerked to a stop as his president slammed it into park and glanced back at her with a brow raised. Maura tilted her head.

A faint tick, tick, tick came from beneath where he and Amara sat.

He glanced at her, and her face was scrunched, eyes closed,then they snapped open as her lips parted and she yelled, “Bomb!”

Hammer and Maura didn’t hesitate. They jumped out of the front doors just as Oliver jumped up and slid open the back. A potent fear struck him at the loss of those few precious seconds.

Tick, tick, tick.

Amara was the last out, and as they rounded the back of the van, a blast of fire rained over them, sending them both flying through the air. Oliver reached out and tackled Amara to the ground about ten feet from the vehicle, rolling a few times to get further away, shielding her with his body as smoke, flames, and metal flew in every direction. A sonic boom shook the concrete under their cheeks, and the van exploded, sending a raging inferno over their bodies.

They lay on the ground, stunned, as their ears rang. Oliver’s body burned as pieces of metal fell onto his pants and scorched holes through his jeans, singing his skin. He told his limbs to move.

Amara lay still underneath him.

He licked his lips and slid to the side.

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