Dillon: A Wings of Diablo MC Novel by Lake, B. (rosie project txt) 📕

is Lily. I fall to my knees and wrap my arms around her, tackling her to the ground in my exuberance.

"Baby, are you ok? Did they hurt you? You ok baby?" I swipe the hair out of her face to see a bright smile. "What?"

"I knew you’d come Daddy. I tried to tell them, but they didn’t believe me. I knew you’d find me anywhere." I pick her up from the ground, kissing her cheeks and forehead over and over.

"Always, I’ll always find you."

A loud pop echoes from outside and something hits the ground with a loud thud.

"Daddy, we have to get them out. We have to help them too."

Her face was dirty as were her clothes. She was shaking in fear, but she was more concerned about the rest of them then herself. Just like her mother.

"Alright baby, alright." I rush from cage to cage opening the doors and letting all the children out. They range in age from 3 up to about 8 just like Justin had said. There was a stairway that leads up to some bulkhead doors, but they were locked with what looked like industrial locks. I scour the ring for the key and find the one that would undo these locks and manage to get the doors open. Just as I did the kids all decide to try and run for it.

"No, wait!" I stand in front of the stairwell so they can’t get through. I quickly take out my phone and call Archer who should be out far enough to cover the children as they run out.

"Yeah, you need us in there? I hear shots."

"No, stand your ground. I’m sending out kids. A lot of them." I look down to Lily who has been clinging to my arm since I let her out. "I’m sending Lily."

"What? Daddy … No!" She yanks on my arm to get me to change my mind.

"Roger. I’ll get Joda to take them into the trees." Archer said.

"Look for the flashing light." I order. I only had a small flashlight, but it was so dark outside that he would be able to see it.

"Yup." He hangs up the phone and I make my way to the top of the stairs. Outside is nothing but flat land. There are a few bodies on the ground, and I can hear screaming from upstairs. I pray that the guys are doing okay. Now that I know my girl is safe, I can focus on killing the motherfuckers that took her. I activate the flashlight on my phone and systematically cover it and uncover it. Another light all the way on the other end of the field does the same thing—Archer.

"Lily you see that light. I want you and the rest of the kids to run there as fast as you can. That’s Uncle Luke."

I see her bottom lip shaking, she’s about to start crying.

"Daddy, you have to come with me!"

"Lily, baby, I have to help them. Imagine all these kids here … their families can’t find them, or all the kids who were taken away from loving parents. They deserve to go home too, right?"

She looks at one of the girls that she was in the cage with. "Yes, they need to go home too." She fists her free hand and looks back up to me. "Fine, but you better make sure that you come find me again. Don’t stay." She pulls her hand out of the other girl’s grasp and wags her finger at me. I nearly laugh at her. This little woman thinking that she’s in charge of me.

"Come on, run over to Uncle Luke. Do you see the light?" I pull her up so she can see over the stairs.

"Yeah. I see it."

"Ok, stay as low as you can. Run fast and don’t stop for anything. Uncle Luke and a few friends are over there waiting on you."

"Got it." I see her staring at the light. I bend down to kiss her head and push her up the stairs with the kids on her tail.

I don't hear any gunshots in that direction, but I can still hear them coming from upstairs. I watch my daughter run out of danger and for the second time in the last two days she is in someone else’s care. That couldn't be helped, I had shit to finish upstairs.

When I rush back to the main level, there is row after row of what looks like workers and caretakers on the ground with their hands tied behind their back. I run into Treble who is taking on two men at once. One of them with their arms around his neck while the other is punching him furiously in his midsection. I dart over to where they are to help, but before I do, Treble pushes the man who is holding his neck back into a wall breaking his grasp. He turns and slams the man’s head into the wall. Then he leans down to pull out the small gun he has stashed in his boot. Treble fires three shots into the man before he turns around and fires another shot at the man who was just punching on him. Both of them dead and down before I could even make it down the hallway.

"Good shit Treble." As a prospect, he shouldn't even be here, but from the little I know about him, he isn't one to take no for an answer. Seems like he will make a good brother.

I run past him and carefully poke my head around the corner. Dead bodies are everywhere, but none of them are my brothers.

"Is it clear?" I call out, my family couldn't have gone through all these motherfuckers.

"You doubting our skill now? Just admit it, you know we're the best." Clean calls out loudly before he puts his arms up in a generic strong man pose.

They had cleared a whole fucking building for me. They put their lives on the line so I could find my daughter.