Page 50 of Tanner (Dirty Misfits MC 5)
“Why aren’t there any flames?” I asked breathlessly.
Finn ripped his mask off. “Shit. The cellar.”
Molly furrowed her brow while she panted for air. “Wait, there’s a cellar?”
I put my hand on Finn’s shoulder. “There’s another level to this place?”
He acted like he didn’t hear us, though, because all he did was slip his mask back on. He rushed away from us, booking it around the side of the warehouse while we called out for him. But it was no use. Finn moved quicker than any person I’d ever seen in my life, and within seconds he was out of sight.
Before Josie sprinted up to us.
“Molly! Summer! Jesus Christ, thank fuck you guys are all right.”
She wrapped us up in wonderfully-tight hugs that made my eyes water with tears.
“Do you know where the guys are?” I asked.
Josie looked at me with her own red eyes. “No, I haven’t seen them at all. I smelled the smoke while I was cooking food and immediately got whoever I could see outside. I’ve been trying to find Archer ever since I got out here. Do you know where they are? Please tell me they’ve made it outside.”
Molly cupped her cheeks. “They have gas masks on. They’re probably locating the source of the fire. You know they’re okay. They’re always okay.”
Tears dripped down Josie’s cheeks, mimicking my own. “He has to be okay. He hates fire. Can’t stand the shit. Archer!”
“Shh, shh, shh, shh,” Molly said softly.
“Archer, please!” Josie roared.
Then, out of nowhere, I heard the echoing voice of someone returning our call.
“Josie!”
She pulled away from Molly, her eyes as wide as saucers. “That’s Archer. Did you hear him?”
“Summer!”
My heart skipped a beat. “Tanner! Holy shit!”
The second I saw their bodies walk forth from the smoke that had softly enveloped the side of the warehouse, I took off running. Tanner looked like he was limping and Archer was one more smoke cloud away from falling to his knees, but they were alive.
However, when they got out of the smoke and dropped Raven to the ground, I gasped.
“Oh, no,” I murmured.
“She’s barely breathing. We need Cole,” Archer said through his panting.
“Archer, thank fuck,” Josie said breathlessly.
The two of them enveloped one another in a hug as I cupped Tanner’s cheek, making him look at me. “You did good. You did so, so good.”
He swallowed hard. “I need Cole. She needs Cole. Have you seen him?”
I furrowed my brow. “You don't know? You were with him when you wanted me to go with Molly. That was Cole in that mask, right?”
And when he didn’t answer me, panic rushed its way through my veins.
If the guys had been so caught off-guard with all of this that they had lost track of one another, then we were all scattered in the wind. There was no plan, and no next step. All there was… was surviving.
Making it out alive.
Hoping, and praying, everyone else was as well off as us.
“They’re going to be okay,” I whispered.
Tanner shook his head before he looked down at Raven. “Hey, can you hear me? Raven?”
He tapped her cheek softly, which made her groan. But she didn’t open her eyes and she barely moved.
“Raven, it’s me. Summer. Can you hear me?” I asked.
“Do you hear that!?” Molly exclaimed.
Off in the distance, if I strained my ears enough, I heard the sound of horns honking. Sirens squealed and roared out with purpose as they slowly crept closer to us. Relief washed its way through my veins as the sound of the horns grew closer, because I’d lived in the city long enough to know what a fire truck sounded like.
And there was an army headed in our direction.
“They’ll have ambulances,” I said breathlessly.
Tanner groaned as he strained himself, picking Raven back up into his arms. “Let’s get her to the treeline. She’s still too close.”
“Please tell me you know where the rest of the guys are,” Molly said.
Tanner shook his head. “I’m sorry. There’s so much fucking chaos, but I’ll go back and—”
I slapped his arm. “You’re not going back in there. Not on my watch.”
He glared at me. “Those are my brothers.”
“And I’m the mother of your child. What if Cheyenne were standing here? Would you go back then?”
Molly whimpered behind me. “Please, Tan. You have to find Cole.”
Tanner’s eyes pleaded with me, but I shook my head. “Your daughter needs you. I need you.”
Molly gripped my hair and pulled me to her side. “And I need Cole! I need him to go get Cole because I can’t do this alone! I can’t raise this child alone! Stop being so fucking selfish and let him go get—”
“Molly!” Cole roared.
She released my hair as sobs of relief fell from her lips. “Is that—”
“Molly!” Cole bellowed.
She quickly looked over at me. “I’m so sorry.”
I shook my head and hugged her tightly. “Don’t you dare be. We’d be the exact same way if the situations were reversed. Now, go.”
