Lahat ng Kabanata ng Claimed By My Father’s Outlaw : Kabanata 51 - Kabanata 60

Cole POVRaine’s nails dug into my arm like she was trying to anchor us both against the storm Dahlia had just unleashed. The garage air felt thicker, charged with the echo of that venomous voice still ringing in our ears.My blood was ice, but my body was already moving on instinct. I grabbed the radio and smashing it silent against the workbench before another word could even slither through.“Our cover is blown,” I said, my voice low and rough. “Grab what you can. We roll in five.”Isla was already stuffing ammo into a duffel, her face stotic. Raine gave my arm one last squeeze, her storm-gray eyes flashing with a mix of fury and fire I’d fallen so damn hard for, then she was moving too, snatching tools and anything that could keep us alive another day. The betrayal burned in her. I saw it in the tight line of her jaw, but she refused to say anything else.We were on the bikes and gone before the sun had fully set. My crew cut across back trails, thw engines growling low matching o

COLE POVThey tried to kill us twice before we shook Dahlia’s tail.Bullets sang past my helmet as I hugged the bike low, throttle pinned until the engine screamed. Raine was a shadow ahead of me, weaving through the scrub with the kind of instinct only someone born to this life possessed. Dahlia’s crew was fast, reckless, but Raine was better. She cut sharp across a dry wash, kicking up a blinding rooster tail of sand that forced two of them to brake hard. I took the gap she left, firing two shots over my shoulder that pinged off Dahlia’s fairing. Her curse carried on the wind.We lost them in a narrow canyon where the rocks sang with ricochets, doubling back through gullies only locals would know. By the time we killed the engines at the old outpost, my shoulder burned from the graze and my heart hammered like it wanted out of my chest. Raine killed her bike beside me, breathing hard, eyes wild with adrenaline and fury.The crew swarmed us immediately. Isla grabbed her sister in a f

COLEI couldn’t let her walk down there alone.The second Vex raised his hand and every gun on that flat seemed to come up, I broke cover and moved fast down the ridge behind her. Raine didn’t turn around, but I saw her shoulders tighten. She knew it was me. I couldn’t even hide anymore.I caught up to her just as she reached the open ground. My hand brushed the small of her back for half a second. She grimaced, but didn’t pull away. Vex stood twenty yards ahead, flanked by his top guys. Dahlia leaned against her bike off to the side, her arms crossed, watching us like we were her favorite show. The only thing missing was popcorn.“Raine,” Vex called out, his voice carrying across the flat. “At least you still know how to follow an order. Your shadow, though…” He looked straight at me. “I didn’t expect him to have the balls to show.”Raine stopped in the middle of the no-man’s-land between the two clubs. I stayed right beside her, close enough that our arms touched. Both sides had the

COLEThe desert had turned into pure hell and chaos.Dust choked everything. Gunfire cracked from every direction. My side burned like someone had poured gasoline on it and lit a match, but I kept moving, my arms locked around Raine and Isla as we ran through the chaos. She was covered in blood, some hers, but mostly not. I did a good job by protecting her from it all. Isla stayed close on our left, firing back whenever anyone got too near.“Keep going!” I shouted, my voice raw.We dove behind a cluster of rocks near the base of the ridge. Bullets pinged off stone above our heads. I pressed my hand to my side and felt warm blood pouring between my fingers. It was really bad, but I couldn’t stop now.Raine’s eyes were wild as she reloaded. “Cole, you’re losing too much blood. We have to get you out of here.”“Not yet.” I grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer. The world was spinning a little, but I forced the words out. This might be the last chance I had. “Listen to me right now, Rai

RAINEThe desert night swallowed us whole.I rode like a woman possessed, throttle pinned, my eyes burning from tears and dust. Isla stayed glued to my left side, her headlight cutting through the darkness. Every few seconds I glanced in my mirrors. The pursuing headlights were still back there. Although they were smaller now, they were not totally gone. They wanted blood. They wanted me.Cole was dead.The thought hit me again like a fresh bullet. I had left him bleeding out in the sand while I ran. The man who had taken bullets for me. The man who had finally confessed everything and told me he loved me. Gone. Just like that.My chest felt hollow, and every breath hurt.“Raine!” Isla shouted over the engines. “We need to lose them!”I nodded and took a sharp right onto a narrow game trail I remembered from years ago. The bikes bounced hard over rocks and ruts. My injured leg screamed with every jolt, but I didn’t slow down. Pain was good. Pain meant I was still alive. Pain meant I w