Page 43 of Knuckles

“Masters is a dirty cop?” Benny sneers, and my body vibrates as I watch him hold something out towards my girl, and she tenses.

“Fuck, it’s his taser,” Marshalls chokes, and I take another step forward, causing another hand to grip my opposite arm as my body trembles while the brothers, who don’t know, look at me in confusion. I ignore them and watch as my girl shoots and kills both Chargers without hesitation making me fucking proud, but before she can kill her partner, he tasers her, and I roar out as her body shakes before she falls to the floor.

Son of a…

Everything in me darkens, and without a second thought, I grab the chair before me, dislodging the grips on me, and throw the furniture against the back wall.

Arms quickly latch around me, and I roar out louder, trying to dislodge them as I watch the fucker who tased my girl drag her, unconscious, back to his car.

He’s dead, I’m going to fucking kill that bastard!

“What the fuck?” I hear in confusion, and Cage informs the brothers, “Kodi is Knuckles’ girl, they've been together for nearly five months,” and shock renders the brothers speechless to the point even my dad takes a step to the side, but I pay them no mind as I try my hardest to dislodge who has hold of me. My eyes stay firmly on the frozen screen of my girl being shoved into a car.

Anger and fury take hold. I can’t fucking control it, and I shove whoever has me lodged, and I move towards the Chief who I am ninety percent sure smacked my girl, ready to kill the fucker, instantly blaming him for this, but arms grab me again so I point at Marshalls and shout, “You should have fucking come to me the moment you knew she didn’t come back to the station!”

He flinches, his tears fall, and he chokes, “This is all my fault…” causing his son to flinch, but dislodge the arms again and shove who I know is Crusher before I storm out of church, banging the door in the process, causing the men in the common room to jump and look at me wide-eyed. I ignore them and storm towards the front door, adamant to try and find my fucking girl before Masters hurts her.

***

Two Days Later

“Anything?” I hear my dad ask as I stare at Trick's screen.

“No,” Trick grunts, and I wipe my hand over my mouth with frustration and anger, trying my hardest not to take it out on the man who couldn’t be fucked with me over the years, who allowed my mom to treat me like shit.

Benny is in the common room, his dad is patrolling the town like I have done several times over the last two days, barely fucking sleeping, and my dad hasn’t left my side much, which is heightening my agitation.

I watch as Trick types furiously, logging into another neighboring town to see if the fucker drove through that way.

I found his car half an hour from the farm, abandoned, and there was no fucking CCTV or door cams in the area, fucking nothing, and I know he did that on purpose.

I look down and grip my hair as I breathe heavily, my body trembling.

Two fucking days, and nothing, I haven’t seen my girl in four days, and fuck, I feel like I can’t breathe, I feel like I’m breaking.

Where the fuck is she?

Is she hurt?

Did he… I shake my head, not able to think it and I tremble.

“We’ll find her, son,” my dad says softly, but I ignore him and his fake-ass concern.

I never should have gone silent. I should have kept in contact and explained what I was doing. I should have fucking been there, but instead, I had to focus on myself, didn’t I? I had to try and convince myself to claim her when I already fucking have when I tatted her name down my side.

I squeeze my eyes tight, the stinging behind my eyelids making me tense…fuck, I want to cry, no, I want to fucking sob.

“Fuck, I think I’ve found them,” Trick says suddenly, and I shoot my head up and look at the screen and see a still shot of Masters, his hand on a door handle of a warehouse that I recognize to be the Chargers, not far from here, his face pointed towards the camera.

I feel my heart pound as my dad asks, “How in the fuck did you know to check the their security?”

“I didn’t, I just thought I’d give it a shot because we’ve exhausted all our other options,” Trick asks, and I stand abruptly, and his eyes widen, “Brother?”

“I know which warehouse that is. I’ve done surveillance there before. I’ll head out on my own and call if I find her,” I grunt and head towards the door.

“But,” Trick begins, but Dad cuts him off and snaps, “you are not going alone!”

I look at him, ensuring to lock eyes with him and I say, “Why not? I’ve been alone all my life, Dad,” and he takes a step back like I’ve punched him but I ignore his reaction and state, “Just track me Trick and if you don’t hear from me in a few hours,then come find me, but don’t send any other brother other than the officer brothers because I don’t trust the rest,” and the man flinches as my dad chokes before I storm out of the room and head for the backdoor to miss the brothers so they can’t tag along.