Page 46 of Flash (Iron Thunder MC 2)
I hurried to where Allegra was pasted to the ground. I gave her my good arm and helped to haul her up. She wrapped herself around me, resting her head on my chest.
“You okay?” I asked and she nodded.
“I am now,” she said.
All around us, the Iron Thunders surrounded the clearing so none of the Silver Knights could make their escape.
“Did they hurt you?” I asked her. She kept her face turned away from them like she couldn’t look at them anymore. She was disgusted by them. She was scared.
“No, you were just in time,” she replied.
I looked up at Drax who was watching us carefully. He saw it in my eyes. He knew what I wanted: retribution. He could see what Allegra meant to me. I didn’t need to spell it out in words.We had the six members of the Silver Knights MC surrounded in the clearing of the woods. This was their space, the spot they brought people they wanted to knock off so they could do it discreetly without attracting attention. But this time, we were the ones in charge and maybe they were afraid we were going to knock them off.
Drax stood in the center of the circle we’d made around them. Allegra was hidden behind me, one hand on my waist.
“So you motherfuckers think you can just kidnap one of our women and bring them over here? You target the weakest members of our Club?” Drax was speaking in a low, enraged drawl.
The guy with the mustache, whose name I didn’t know, decided to speak up for his group.
“Nothing was going to happen to her, man, we were just going to scare her a little and let her go.”
I could feel Allegra shudder a little behind me. I couldn’t see her face but I could sense the fear she was probably still feeling.
“You think I was born yesterday?” Drax growled.
“Nothing was going to happen to her!” the man repeated, a little louder this time.
“You mean like nothing happened to our prospect? The guy you bastards branded? He nearly fucking died from shock!”
“We wouldn’t have done the same thing to her!”
“You do not treat women like that! Especially not our women!” Drax growled like a wild animal and strode right up to the man’s face. I caught Spike and Ghost shifting on their feet when they saw this. None of us liked the idea of our President going so close to them. But Drax knew how to handle himself. Besides, he knew they wouldn’t try anything right now. All their weapons had been taken away too.
“There will be consequences to your actions. Do you motherfuckers understand that?” he continued. Nobody spoke. The Silver Knights didn’t dare refute it anymore. “You will pay for the Hell you unleashed on that girl and for all the ways you’ve fucked with us in the past. You want a war, motherfuckers? You got it.”
Drax walked away from them.
“Collect the bikes. They belong to us now. Let them find their own way back,” he grumbled under his breath.
The Silver Knights exchanged looks with each other. Maybe they were surprised they were getting away with their lives still intact.
Drax stopped and turned to them again.
“Tell your President, Crash, I have a little message for him. Tell him I’m coming for him. I’m going to personally make sure he is destroyed by the end of this.”
Drax walked away, headed back to where his own bike was parked. The rest of the members and prospects were going to take care of the Silver Knights now.
I had to take Allegra home.
I looked over at Bolt and he nodded. They didn’t need me here. I needed to get my arm looked at and make sure Allegra was doing okay.
“Come on, let’s go, you’re going to be okay,” I said, pulling her up to my front. She still clung to me like she never wanted to let go and for the first time in my life, I didn’t want a woman to let me go either.18AllegraI didn’t think I was going to make it out of this one. I thought the Silver Knights would get what they wanted tonight. Brand me. More. Maybe find other ways to hurt me and get the message across to Flash and his friends.
But when I heard that gunshot ringing through the air, I knew it was him. Instinctively, I was convinced he’d found me somehow. How? It was practically impossible. How did Flash know where to even start looking?
So that was the first question I had for him when he lifted me off the ground.
When the men dropped me to save themselves, I stayed on the ground, trying to keep myself down and safe from the bullets whizzing past.
I peeked through my fingers, my face covered with both hands. And when I saw Flash running toward me, I cried out his name in relief.
