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clasped my hands together and motioned for Mickie to allow him inside of my office.
    “Boss,” Renaldo said respectfully.
    “They’ve threatened our territories again. The fucking Russians. I received a call from Toscano this morning with word reaching the rank that the soldiers were dealing with their bullshit. As long as it was being dealt with.” I eyed him.
    “A meeting?” His hand slid through the few hairs on top of his brown head.
    My gaze dropped with the buzz of my cell phone, my burner. “Yeah?”
    “Boss, we’ve got shots fired. Need backup.” The sounds were muffled.
    “Bella?”
    “Boss, now!” Tommy hissed into the phone. He needed help. I knew I shouldn’t have let her go to that fucking lunch.
    Mickie watched me as he stood from his sitting position. Renaldo sat silent, unaffected.
    I jumped from my seat. “Russians?”
    “I think, but the shots came from outside and I didn’t get a look. She’s been shot, boss.”
    “FUCK!” My fist punched through the wall I stood next to. “Get the car and a crew to Bella,” I ordered Mickie. “I’m on my way,” I said to Tommy. “Fucking Russians shot Bella.” I was sure it had to be them, they’d been seeking revenge for a lesson that went in a bad direction. I slipped my hand under my desk removing my gun and retrieved a few clips from the drawer. “Let’s go.”
    “Jax, if you don’t send your men and you go there, they’ll kill you. That’s what they want. They're sending a message, and we needed to listen.”
    I froze with anger. “A fucking message? The Bratva shot my wife. They’ve just started a war with this famiglia.” I ambled towards the now open door. “I want a sit down with New York and Detroit.” I wanted a sit down with everyone, but couldn’t risk it. Having everyone in Detroit only a month prior was on the verge of insanity as it stood. But the Feds had nothing so they couldn’t move. Fuck, they knew I was the boss now. They’d known why we were all getting together, but what the fuck could they do with that? Nothing.
    My office was a long fucking ten minutes from Bella. Mickie called a crew in. By the time we rounded the corner sirens blared. Took them long enough. The glass to the restaurant was cracked with a large hole near the left side, it was impossible to see inside. I jumped from the Denali with my gun in hand. The crew I’d had Mickie send scattered around the entrance. One of the soldiers peered into the window, he indicated that he could see Bella. There was no sign of the Bratva. The sirens came closer as I moved quickly to the door. People lay everywhere unmoving and panicked. My heart pounded violently as I searched for Bella shuffling through the people that cowered behind their tables.
    “Bella?”
    “Over here,” Dominic mumbled.
    Tommy’s body lay over hers. They’d wrapped her with their own bodies protecting her, my wife. I approached seeing that Tommy’s body was limp and unmoving. I moved him from her. Blood soaked her white dress. Her eyes were open and roamed not in focus. Her lips half-parted.
    She was alive.

Chapter 6
    Bella
    A knife was ripping through my flesh. I winced feeling the ungodly pain rip through my core. My eyes opened: a blur, fuzzy and bright. My hands raised to my eyes rubbing them clear with my palms. White, cold, stillness floated throughout the unknown space. Black polo and jeans, messy hair, large gold watch, shiny black shoes to my right, a crucifix in his left hand that rested upon his chest. Jax’s legs extended onto the table next to the hospital bed I lay tucked inside. His head lay back over his right shoulder. I’d never seen Jax sleep before, he was at peace in that moment. A flutter from his closed eyes and a flinch from his full lips drew my eyes in further as I watched. I held in the cry that threatened, I didn’t want to wake him. I’d likely never see him like this again, so I’d enjoy it if even just for a moment.
     
    Twenty minutes had