Page 30 of Rest In Knotty Pieces

Pix

Ishove open the panel that is taking too long to open and take the stairs two at a time. As soon as I get outside, I inhale deeply and let out a frustrated growl. It’s a rainy day, and it’s cold, but I’m outside and in the wind.

How dare they turn me into a nursemaid! I’m Pix Mother Fucking O’Connel!

I’m not sure why I’m letting them keep me locked up like a pet goldfish, but no one has dicked me yet, and Roseland has been hiding. Every day I spend attempting to hunt him down ends in failure. I spend the rest of that time dodging the groping hands of that asshole Rolly.

I pull out the phone I’ve stolen and bypass the security features. In two seconds, I’m dialing a ride.

“Where the fuck have you been?” Meg shrieks.

“Track this number.”

“On it!” Desi says from the background.

“Ooh, did you get kidnapped by gorgeous man meat?” The sound of Meg’s voice is a balm to the rage that’s been trying to explode out.

“I don’t want to talk about it,” I grit out. “Where is Bonnie and her pack of assholes?”

There’s a pause.

“I thought we liked Pack Prince,” Meg whines.

I let out a deep, rumbling noise of discontent, but honestly, there is only so much bullshit a serial killer like me can take.

“Put. Her. On. The. Phone.”

“You’re on speaker, Pack Prince is here, and we resent you calling us assholes,” Vale says in a cold tone.

“Come and get me before I murder your cousins, brothers, and whatever else they genetically claim to be. They have kept me in a hidden bunker playing nursemaid.”

There is a long silence that only serves to kick my temper into high gear.

“I’m sorry, what?” Vale says in what can only be shock, it’s just that it sounds strange on this alpha who always knows everything.

I start jogging. “Come get me, Vale. I swear to fuck, if you leave me here one more night, I’m removing testicles one at a time. I am done.”

“Sage took you?” he says in a high voice. “My Sage?”

“I’m not repeating myself!” I snap. “Bonnie?”

“On the way. We have your location. Should be about…thirty minutes, less if Desi is driving.”

“Let Desi drive.”

I keep moving. It is pretty out here. It’s similar to the forest Bonnie goes for her walks in, but denser, and when I catch sight of the mountains, we are in the wrong position. Not too far from home, but far enough.

Fucking Roseland. I knew he was driving in circles.

“Who are you playing nursemaid to?” Meg asks. “Are you a daddy? Do we get to call you Daddy Daega?”

I growl in warning, but Meg, who is unperturbed by everything, just lets out a deep, rolling laugh.

“Who do they have down there, Pix?” Bonnie asks in concern. “Do we need to help them, too?”

It hurts. It hurts to say, but I have to. “Roseland brought his omega; they are all a scent match, the whole lot are a pack in the making.”

The silence gets deadly.