I passed by two dead Scorched Satan bodies and recognized them as some of the men that Donnelly was with. I could hear a gun being fired and what sounded like the voice of one of the Scorched Satans that came in here before me. Donnelly had to be close.

I reached down and picked up one of the guns off of the dead body as a backup, putting it in my back pocket.

As I was on my knee checking his body for ammunition the police radio on the Scorched Satan’s chest went off.

I didn’t recognize the voice but the guy was frantic, although the radio had some bad static I could still make out what he was saying.

“The feds! The fucking feds are here! They’re arresting anyone in a Arizona State Police Depart Uniform! We gotta get out of here they fucking know! They fucking know!”

They’re here? I have to get out of here, I have to get back to Hannah and get us both out of here.

I gripped my gun tight, Donnelly was in this building, on this floor, I was so goddamn close but I knew I would have to give it up. I had to leave him and hope that the feds would catch him before he escaped. Deep down I felt as if I failed, but I had to get back to Hannah and get her out of Los Aves as quickly as I could.

I heard the sound of running behind me, I turned around and aimed my gun only to see Omar coming straight for me.

For a moment I didn’t believe that he was here, I felt my stomach drop and assumed that something happened to Hannah and he had come to tell me.

“Omar? What the hell are you doing here?” Where’s Hannah? Why aren’t you defending Hannah?!”

“I left her behind with Sharpe to come and fight, I shouldn’t be stuck defending someone when-”

I grabbed him by his leather jacket and shook him hard, I wanted to beat him to the ground.

“I gave him you one task, one task; to defend the woman I love until I got back. You think just because you want to fight you should leave her?”

“Relax Axel, like I said she’s still back at the garage safe and sound with Sharpe. I’m sure he can handle it.”

I heard a voice call out behind us, and it was then that I realized that the gunshots in the building had stopped.

“The garage eh? I think I remember how to get there. Truth be told I’m surprised you survived that blow to the head.”

I turned around to see Donnelly standing there down the hall holding the dead body of the Desert Vulture brother that shot at him from the window.

“You should have never left her on her own” he said chuckling as he wiped some blood off of his mouth. “The feds may be here, but I’m gonna make sure I put that little pretty bitch in the ground before they put the cuffs on me. My life may be ruined after today, and I might have missed my chance to kill you back in that alleyway, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do the next best thing and ruin your life one last time.”

Without hesitation I let go of Omar and drew my gun, firing three shots at Donnelly only to just barely miss.

He let go of the Desert Vulture brother and dove towards a fire exit.

“Omar you IDIOT you said where she was!” I yelled out, pushing past him to go back towards the entrance of the building. It was no longer a game of revenge, now I had to protect the woman I love from the man that already took my best friend from me.

I ran down the stairs of the building, hearing Omar running after me. It sounded like he was apologizing but there was so much blood rushing to my head that I couldn’t even make out his words.

I burst through the doors outside, nearly tripping over a dead body as I watched a California State police officer wrestle a Scorched Satan to the ground and put him in cuffs.

I heard the shattering of a window and turned to see Donnelly breaking into a car across the street near the door for the fire exit.

I drew my gun and fired two more shots at him but he ducked into the car just in time. Before I had a chance to pull the trigger again I heard the car start up as he wasted no time in speeding away.

I pulled the trigger two more times and just barely hit his back right tire, it didn’t stop him but it slowed him down a little bit.

I watched as he sped down the street, straight towards my Hannah.

I reached for my phone to call Sharpe but it wasn’t in my pocket.

“God fucking dammit it must have fallen out” I muttered to myself.

“Hey you two! Stay right there!” someone behind me shouted.

I turned to see three California police down the street who just spotted me and Omar. I didn’t have time for this, I had to reach Hannah now!

I ran into the nearby alley where I kept my ride, wasting no time in hopping on and starting it up. It was a good thing that Wyatt fixed it up for me because I was about to ride like hell.

Omar ran up to me in the alleyway blocking my only exit, I was damn near about to run him over.

“You can’t leave me behind I’m a brother! If you do they’ll take me in!”

I grabbed him by his collar and brought him in close.

“If you were a real brother you would have did what your president told you to do, you would have protected the most important person in my life! You barely even deserve to be in this brotherhood.”

I threw him against the wall and revved my engine, ready to speed off.

“Besides, they might arrest you, but they’ll realize you’re not one of them and release you soon enough. Good luck Omar.”

I hit the throttle as hard as I could and sped out of there, nearly running over two California State Police in the process.

I sped through the streets, left and right I saw my brothers leaving the town like I told them as California Police and federal agents began arresting every Scorched Satan they could find. The sounds of bullets were being replaced with the screams of every Scorched Satan as they were arrested, I had never been more happy to see cops in my entire life.

I was closing in on the garage, all I could do was squeeze the handlebars of my bike and hope to god that Hannah was ok.

I finally could see the garage in the distance, and pulling in at that very moment was Donnelly. If I hadn’t shot out that tire who knows what would have happened.

I watched the bastard get out of his car, he turned and looked at me as I barrelled towards him on my bike. I watched him reach into his pocket and pull out a pistol as he smiled at me the whole time. This bastard was really going to do it.

“Sharpe if you’re there now would be a good time to put this fucker in the ground!” I said to myself as I sped closer and closer to the garage.

I didn’t come this far to lose her, not today, not ever.