Free Cocky Biker: A Stand Alone MC Romance Novel (Cocker Brothers of Atlanta Book 2) by Faleena Hopkins

stop.
    “Stay with me.”

Jett
    S cratch runs into the room and looks around. “What the fuck!!”
    “GET AN AMBULANCE!” I yell.
    He rushes to me, taking her in. “We did. Called the police, too. We’re going to have to do a lot of explaining. And we’re probably going to jail for this.”
    I barely hear him. I’m holding her, covered in her blood. “Stay with me, Sunshine. Fight!”
    “I’ve got an idea!” Honey Badger cries out. “Scratch, come with me!”
    They disappear. Time is frozen, and yet there they are again, carrying a guy in from outside. “Careful not to let his feet drop.” To me, as if I care, Honey Badger says, “He’s already dead.”
    They bring him over and lay him beside her, slump him like he was facing the bed. Scratch holds him up and leans way back. Honey Badger runs over to the unconscious guy by the door, the one who shot her.
    “Jett, duck!”
    I cover her with my body and bend out of the way.
    He picks up the guy’s gun, aims and fires at the dead thug. Scratch swears under his breath as the blood spatters on him and us. The now twice-dead body slumps to the side, his head a fuckin’ unrecognizable mess. Scratch takes the gun Sunshine used and wipes her fingerprints off. He puts it in the dead guy’s hand and makes sure the guy’s fingerprints are on it in all the right places. Then he uses his shirt to wipe his own off.
    Turning to me, Scratch sees my dazed expression.
    I can’t stop whispering to Sunshine.
    I can’t stop.
    “Jett, focus! This is the deal.”
    My eyes slowly move to listen. Honey kneels in front of me. “This guy shot HIM.” He points to Matias in the bed. “She went to save him. The old guy. She went to save him, you hear me?” I nod once. “And when she did, that guy shot this guy to save his boss, and accidentally hit her, too.” He jabs a finger at the guy by the door, the fucker who caused my anguish. “You got it?”
    “Stay with me, Sunshine,” I whisper to her, nodding to my chosen brothers that I understand. At some point later I will thank them for clearing her name. That man fathered her. Then sold her mother as a whore. I can only imagine how that went down. Sunshine deserves peace, and respect for her bravery today.
    She’s got my respect.
    “Hear those?” Scratch mumbles, as sirens get louder. “We ready for this?”
    “Yeah,” Honey Badger mutters, looking from me to the door.
    I say nothing, but they know I’m good for it. We trust each other with our lives.
    They go downstairs and I stay put. Again time tricks me. Suddenly EMTs are in the room telling me I have to let her go. I barely know this girl. I don’t even know her fuckin’ name. But I witnessed something in her. It began last night when she gave herself to me. It deepened tonight when I learned her story. I witnessed her enact a vengeance that she’d waited her whole life to do, and that kind of thing bonds you to a person.
    I saw her soul tonight. Hell, I saw it last night, too. She took her wall down for me. How I earned that honor, I’ll never know.
    And now it’s over.
    “I’m going with you,” I whisper, following them as they carry her out on a gurney.
    Cops are everywhere. Searching. Listening.
    The Ciphers are answering questions.
    When two police officers try to stop me at the front door, my voice is firm. “I’ll answer anything you want. But I’m not letting her out of my sight.”
    “How do we know you won’t leave the hospital?”
    “Do I look like I’m going anywhere she’s not?”
    They stare at me.
    Fuse yells from behind his broken nose. “We’re the good guys here! Let him go!”
    “I’ll go with him,” a female cop says to the guy. “Cantor and I will make sure he stays put.”
    I head out. The EMTs have her in the ambulance and are about to close the door. One looks over his shoulder to see what the verdict is, if I’m coming or not. That’s decent of him. I motion to the bike and he nods.
    Climbing onto my baby, I flip