Total pages in book: 111
Estimated words: 102136 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 511(@200wpm)___ 409(@250wpm)___ 340(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 102136 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 511(@200wpm)___ 409(@250wpm)___ 340(@300wpm)
“The wrath of the fucking Hangmen Mute, ladies and gentlemen!” Vike started clapping. I couldn’t take my eyes off the bitch hanging on the cross. Off her eyes, wide open in death. Off her mouth, forced shut. Off the black lines around her, where the flames had destroyed the grass. I sank my nails into my arm, over and over again. Had they come for her with snakes too? Had they bitten her too?
AK and Tank started cutting the bitch down. Her body slumped to the ground. Her eyes were looking up at me. Death. Fucking death was staring right at me. The fire in my blood started climbing, getting hotter and hotter, needing to be released.
When I looked at the bitch on the ground, all I could see was my mama. My mama covered in blood, a knife beside her. Then in her place I saw Maddie… I growled low in my throat when I saw Maddie staring back at me from the ground. Except her stomach wasn’t cut open, it was round with the baby. But she was dead. Her body was still and white. Fucking dead. The baby too. Fucking—
“Flames!” Bull’s voice cut into my mind and I snapped my head up.
Brothers started moving when AK shouted, “The clubhouse!” Over the trees I saw fire rolling toward the sky, smoke plunging into the air.
“No!” I screamed and ran to my truck. My fucking pulse set off into a sprint as I dived into the driver’s seat. I pulled out onto the dirt road, the back wheels sliding on the grass. “Maddie!” I roared into the truck’s cabin, as I followed my brothers’ bikes up to the clubhouse. The closer we got the more I saw the flames. “Maddie! MADDIE!” They were everywhere. Fucking flames. Flames climbing higher and higher, fucking eating the wooden parts of the clubhouse. Jumping from the truck I ran out the front. “MADDIE!” I heard coughing. The bitches were rushing to the tree line of the woods, Rider and Zane leading the way. I searched over them all. Watched AK, Styx, Ky, Tank and Bull find their bitches. Sia ran out of the building, Hush and Cowboy running forward to catch her. Tanner was with Lita near his truck. The kids were all there—the babies, Grace, Saffie—
“Maddie!” I turned my head to Mae. She was looking around too.
“Maddie! Where’s Maddie?” she said, panicked. “Maddie?” Mae shouted, eyes wide. “Maddie! MADDIE!”
I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t fucking breathe! No. No. NO! “MADDIE!” I roared. “MADDIE!”
“Fuck!” Rider hissed.
I didn’t fucking wait. I ran into the building. As the door opened, the fire and heat crashed over me, the handle scalded my hand. I didn’t fucking care. Maddie. I had to get Maddie. I heard voices shouting my name from behind me. She couldn’t die. She couldn’t fucking die! Fire was everywhere. I ran down the hallway, toward the back room. She wasn’t there. She wasn’t fucking there! I didn’t feel the flames on my skin. They were already in my blood. “MADDIE!” I screamed, coughing as the smoke burrowed into my lungs. “MADDIE!” I ran forward. There were so many flames.
“Flame!” I heard a voice near me. But I had to get through the fire. Maddie was somewhere in here. She couldn’t die. I hit my head with my fist when I tried to fucking think. “FLAME!” A hand came on my arm and pulled me round. Ash. It was Ash. “Not down there!” he said, his arm covering his mouth from smoke.
He dragged me back by my arm. I threw him off. I needed to find Maddie. I needed Maddie! “There!” Ash shouted. He pointed to the back of the hallway.
My heart thundered when I saw a body on the floor. “MADDIE!” I ran. I fucking ran as fast I could, through the flames and smoke. I dropped to my knees. Maddie was on the floor. She was on the fucking floor!
“We need to get her out, Flame! Move!” Ash shouted. I lifted Maddie in my arms. She weighed nothing. I tried to look at her face. The flames stung my eyes. Her face was smudged with lines of black smoke. But I saw her eyes were shut.
“No!” I rasped and felt my fucking heart start to crack. I ran. I ran as the roof started falling around us. Ash ran in front of me, slamming his shoulder into the exit door that was shut before us. It burst open and he ran through. I followed, just as a gigantic crash sounded behind us. People ran around us. “Get the fuck back! GET THE FUCK BACK!” I screamed as I dropped to my knees and lowered Maddie to the ground. My throat closed, but a loud scream ripped from my throat when she didn’t move. “Maddie,” I whispered and gently pushed back her hair from her head. My hands wouldn’t stop shaking. “Maddie!” I said and sat back on my heels. “Wake up. Maddie, wake up.” I leaned over her. I put my hand on her chin and turned her head to me. “Open your eyes. Please… Maddie… open your eyes…” But she didn’t. Something started happening inside me. The flames that were in my blood started breaking free from the walls of my veins. As I stared at Maddie on the ground, I didn’t care. I didn’t care that I felt the flames flooding through my flesh and bones, running under my skin and taking control.