Page 41 of Flash (Iron Thunder MC 2)
“Billy, please, why are you doing this? You don’t have to do this…” I cried. He reached for me and dragged me out of the trunk. Keeping a firm grip on my arm, he pulled me to the backseat of the car and shoved me in.
“If you keep screaming and kicking like you did, you’ll be back in that trunk again,” he warned and got into the front.
I wiped the tears from my cheeks with the back of my hand and snuggled into the corner of the backseat. This was better. This was far better than being in the trunk. At least now I could breathe. I could look out.
I dared to catch a glimpse of Billy in the rearview mirror while he started the car.
“Keep your eyes to your fuckin’ self,” he growled and I looked away.
I couldn’t believe this was the man I’d thought I would share my life with. How foolish was I?
We drove in silence for a few minutes and then I decided I needed to say something. He was going to do something drastic any way. Most likely, he would kill me since I didn’t have his money. I should have prepared myself for this day a long time ago.
“Where are you taking me, Billy?” I asked. I gulped nervously when he looked at me in the rearview mirror again.
“No talking!” he growled.
“How does it matter if we talk or not? It’s just you and me now, Billy.”
“And that dick you’re fucking, right?” he said, spitting as he got the words out.
I looked down at my hands.
“I’m really sorry about everything. I want you to know that. I wish we could have just talked it out a year ago. I wish I didn’t go on the run.”
“And what would talking have done? Would you have talked your way into the ten grand I fuckin’ need?”
“We could have come up with a solution.”
“I don’t care about your fuckin’ solutions!” He was screaming now, making me tear up again. I looked out and saw that we had entered what looked like the outskirts of a woodland area.
It was beginning to grow dark. How long had we been on the road? Hours?
“Whatever you’re about to do, Billy, you don’t have to do this. You cared about me once, remember? I thought you loved me once.”
He glared at me in the mirror again.
“I didn’t love shit,” he spat and then stopped the car.
My heart sank as I looked out into the darkness of the woods. What was he going to do to me here?“Get out,” Billy growled as he held the back door open for me. My chest heaved as I stared at him. I didn’t know where we were, the only thing I could see was the darkness of the woods around us.
“I said, get the fuck out!” He grabbed my ankles and started pulling me out of the car while I kicked and screamed. I got him in the face with the heel of my boot and he yelped in pain. But that just made him more enraged.
I screamed for help as I felt his fingers digging into my ankles. Eventually, he did manage to pull me out.
The air in these woods was so fresh that it almost made me sick. I thought I was going to throw up.
“Stand up straight so I can see your face,” Billy growled again. I was panting, feeling out of breath. Maybe I could run? It was dark. Maybe he wouldn’t find me.
I took a step back, away from him, and before I could make another move, he caught me.
“Don’t you dare fuckin’ try any funny business,” he hissed. Billy brought his face right up close to mine. I could smell the alcohol on his breath. I wasn’t surprised that he had been drinking.
“What are you going to do to me here, Billy?” I asked.
“All you have to know is that you’re getting what you fuckin’ deserve. Finally.”
He grabbed my arm and started pulling me along the woods, away from the car.
“Where are we going?”
“Shut up!”
“I deserve to know what is going to happen to me!”
“You don’t deserve anything.”
I yanked my arm away from him, and it slipped out of his grip. I stopped in my tracks and so did he, turning to me with an icy glare.
I was reminded of the first time I saw him with his icy blue eyes. He was at our local bar. The new guy in town nobody knew anything about. I wasn’t working at that bar—back then I didn’t work at bars. I was just having a drink with a group of my friends. What drew me to Billy were these eyes and the way he stared at me from across the room.
Anyone else around me would have hesitated to come up and say something, but not Billy. He strode right up to our table and asked me out, making all my girlfriends giggle.
