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“I love you” Gurunted when his proclamation was rewarded with a sharp bite to his pec

“Again”

“I fucking love you” Another bite “Aw, fuck, more”

“I love you too” Screw bit hiain and Guive

Bam Bam Bam

They stilled Screw dropped his head to Gu important”

“Y-you need to get downstairs Uh the closed door

Screw lifted his head, his confused gazeGumby’s “He sounds freaked”

With a nod, Screw called “On my way”

“No, uh, both of you And hurry” The sound of LJ’s retreating footsteps echoed through the room like sonic booms

“Shit,” Gu happened with the CDMC? Retaliation? Why do I feel like the rug is about to be yanked out from under us?” He located his jeans and shoved into them the same time Screw found his

“Because it fucking is” Screw lifted his shirt off the foot of the bed, sniffed it, then shrugged “Let’s go,” he said, working it over his muscular shoulders as they left the roo back a second to appreciate the sight of Screw’s ass as he jogged down the hallway, but today he kept pace though each step brought with it an increasing sense of doom

Part of hiht out the door but he stopped with Screw at the bottom of the steps There stood a handful of Screw’s brothers, each ild-eyed gazes on him and Screw

Copper and Zach stood side by side each yelling into separate phone calls, but it was the devastation scrawled across Maverick’s face that had Gu Screw’s hand, onlookers be damned

“What the fuck’s going on?” Screw asked the crowd at large

An eerie hush of silence descended on the room Copper ended his call then walked to where he and Screw stood, hands still linked With each step that drew Copper closer, Screw squeezed Guhter

Once he stood directly in front of them, his expression one of solemn despair, Copper said, “Thunder called There was an explosion at the diner Jereh theThunder chased hiht him, but Jazz and Viper were inside”

Screw’s knees buckled Copper reached out and caught hi his head

No

Oh, fuck

No

His heels hit the botto hi on the fourth step up God, he couldn’t think He could barely breathe “Is—is she—Oh, fuck” He dropped his head into his hands as the room flip-flopped