Free Bone and Steel (An Erotic MC Romance) by Talia Day Page B

comfortable, I walked out and around a large, junked swamp cooler without looking. As I passed it I heard the click of a gun hammer and felt its butt at the back of my head.
     
    "Drop it, bitch," I rough voice commanded.  I released my gun, terrified.  "Turn around."
     
    I slowly turned around to face yet another ugly brute.  Not a moment later an incredibly loud, incredibly close shot rang out, splattering me with blood.  The goon dropped to the ground instantly, before I even had time to realize what had happened. 
     
    "You okay," Leah asked as she came around the corner of the trashed swamp cooler with Kate not far behind.
     
    "Not really," I said, wanting to cry.  Then suddenly another shot blasted, towards us; we were being fired on!  We instinctively crouched down. 
     
    "Run!" I said.  We all took off across a dirt parking lot to where a bunch of cars were parked.  Shots came flying all around us, hitting the dirt and ricocheting off various pieces of junk and scraps of metal that littered the area.  We made it behind a row of two dozen cars, just in time to see several motorcycles come racing into view. 
     
    "Jacob!" I screamed, standing up momentarily and waving my arms as I discerned instantly the form of his body and custom, royal blue Harley coming into view.  Jacob and some other members of his crew that I recognized were shooting back at our aggressors, trying to force them away from us. 
     
    More of Jacob's men came shortly behind, and soon the Muertos were overpowered and beaten back.  Jacob and another guy I didn't recognize came rushing over to us.
     
    "Chase!" Leah screamed when she saw Chase approaching us with Jacob.  She practically jumped for joy when she saw him alive and well.
     
    "Get on!" Jacob shouted to us.  Kate and I hopped on with Jacob, and Leah with Chase.  We turned around and took off wildly down a dirt road that led away from the building.  Speeding recklessly away from the mayhem, after about five miles we dipped down to the edge of a river.  Turning sharply at the bank, we drove down several yards and into a cover of trees, where we came upon Vicki and Mia standing anxiously next to a hot rod. 
     
    "Get 'em back to the clubhouse," Jacob hollered to the two women.  Kate, Leah and myself dismounted, and Jacob and Chase both spun around and raced back to the fight. 
     
    "Shit, we thought you were dead for sure," Vicki said with a grin, while Leah and Mia cried, embracing each other.

 
    Chapter 12
     
     
    "Goddamn, you deserved to die, you stupid bitch," Vicki scolded me after she heard my story of how I sneaked my GPS-enabled phone into Jacob's pocket.
     
    "And she probably still will," Jacob chimed in.  "She just killed number-one and -two of one of the biggest drug and sex trafficking cartels in the America's; she's got a bounty on her head now, for sure.  Probably forever."  We were all sitting around a table at the clubhouse, drinking.
     
    The Members of Mercy lost only a couple of guys in their latest scuffle, but the Muertos took a massive hit to their organization.  It would take some time for them to reorganize, but reorganize they would. The Muertos had tentacles reaching all over the world, and too many big clients depended on their goods and services.
     
    The weeks passed from that fateful day.  For my part, I learned I was a Member for life, as was Kate and Leah, whether we wanted to be or not.  We got in too deep, and once you're in, you can never get out of a world like this.  But I planned to lay low from here on out, and had no more plans to be saving anyone's day. 
     
    Besides, I learned to love Jacob.  Yes, he could be sexist and domineering, but he was very sensitive, protective and loved me; he even told me so.  And for better or for worse, I was his because I was carrying his baby.  Although part of me feared for our baby's life, I knew deep down he would be truly loved and have a caring family; unlike me.  The Members