Page 44 of Flash (Iron Thunder MC 2)
My throat was dry, my lips felt chapped, every inch of my body was shaking. I knew I was in for trouble when Billy caught me. I knew this wasn’t going to end well for me, but I hadn’t been expecting this.
This was as good as torture.
“This will achieve nothing. They don’t care about me. I mean nothing to them!” I screamed. I decided to try a different approach. Maybe if I could convince them I wasn’t significant, they would let me go?
“Is that why you’ve been spending so much time with the Road Captain?” the man growled.
I gulped and shook my head.
“It’s just a fling. A one-time thing. I had no intention of sticking around here and he knows it. I’m on the run. Trying to get away from Billy. We don’t actually care for each other or anything,” I said.
“Shut up. How fuckin’ stupid do you think I am?” he hissed.
“I’m trying to be honest here.”
“You’re trying to weasel your way out of this. But you’re going nowhere sweetheart,” he said, taking a few steps toward me.
I stared into his eyes, trying to keep my chin up and challenge him. He stood over me, glaring, raging with anger. Then, before I knew what he was going to do, he reached over and pulled up my shirt.
I gasped and cried out, struggling to get my shirt down but he kept it pinned up.
“Don’t you worry, sweetheart, I’ll hold it up for you while these guys do the job. We wouldn’t want a stupid piece of fabric to get in the way,” he sniggered. The others sniggered too.
The guy brandishing the brand in the air came toward me. I couldn’t stop the tears from flooding down my cheeks. I thought I was about to lose consciousness. The closer he got, the more intensely I could smell flesh burning. It was in my head but it seemed so real.
I heard a shot ring out in the night sky and for a moment, thought I was imagining it. Then there was another shot and I saw the look of panic in the man’s eyes. He released his grip on my shirt and it fell back in place.
“What the fuck is goin’ on?” he hissed.17FlashI knew she was gone, that Billy took her.
With a flashlight in my hand, I went running up and down the street around my house to look for clues. I had a feeling she hadn’t been abducted from inside the house. There would have been some signs of struggle if she was. Maybe she’d gone out for a walk?
I found the tire marks on the road, just a few houses down from mine. It looked like someone had screeched away, burning rubber along the way. Someone who was trying to get away fast.
How was I supposed to find him now? How was I going to figure out where Billy took her? When did this happen? Was I too late?
I stormed back to the house to get on my bike. I didn’t know where I was supposed to go; I had a general idea of the direction the car had headed to, but they could be anywhere by now. They could be out of the state.
I promised Allegra I would protect her and now she was gone. I’d failed her, too busy with my own goddamn business, as usual.
Had she been hurt already?
Back in the house, I knocked my forehead on the door, standing there in the darkness of the house with my eyes pressed closed.
I needed to find Billy. I was going to find the bastard. And if he’d hurt Allegra, I was going to kill him with my own bare hands. I was panting with rage, didn’t know where to start.
Maybe it was time I told the others at the MC. I wouldn’t be able to do this alone. I needed help.
Then my phone rang and I fumbled for it in my pocket. It was an unknown number.
“Hello,” I growled, breathing heavily.
“Is this Flash?”
“Who the fuck is this?” I had no patience tonight.
“You don’t need to know my name. All you need to know is that I am a Silver Knight.”
That got my attention. I straightened up and stared at the wall with my brows crossed.
“And what the fuck are you doing calling me?” I was ready for assault.
“I figured you would want to know where they’ve taken your woman.”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
“Where is she?”
“In the Mossy Woods. Where the Silver Knights usually meet to conduct delicate business.”
I had an idea of the place this man was referring to.
“And why are you telling me this?” I growled.
“Because I have a standard of conduct. I don’t want to see an innocent woman getting hurt,” he said and then I heard the click and the call ended. That was it.
