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DC
It might have been the voices that woke me from my forced little nap but it was more than likely my body making contact with the cold cement floor that did it. And the way it made contact with that floor almost made me groan my pain out loud. But I gritted my teeth and kept those sounds down deep inside where they could not be heard. I lay on the cold floor, kept my eyes closed and listened.
You could learn so much about your surroundings if you kept still.
I was in a large, cold echoing space. There were people in that space with me and I wasn’t pleased when I heard Jane fucking Warne’s bitchy whine. Why can’t the bitch just disappear? She’s like that bad penny that keeps on turning up when you least want it to.
I tested my body as I lay there. My face throbbed, which meant I had some damage there. But the worst injuries were to my ribs and my left arm. My arm was definitely broken and a few of the ribs might be cracked or even broken. My breathing, though painful, was okay, so no puncture wounds to my lungs. My legs were okay and I still had the use of my right arm, so I had some weapons in my little arsenal.
It would freaking suck to fight with my ribs in the state they were in, but I could do it. I could do whatever it took to get out of this shit.
Her freaking whine intruded again.
“But you promised, you promised we could play once we had her. I want to play with her, now. You promised, Speedy.”
The sound of skin meeting skin resounded along with a pained gasp.
“Shut the fuck up! Get it through your fucking little bitch of a brain. She’s not here for our entertainment, bitch. She belongs to the boss and we do what the boss tells us to do. So when I tell you we’re not playing with her, it means we’re not fucking playing with her. Now shut the fuck up, go out there and fuck one of those assholes to relieve the tension.”
I heard Jane snort and then giggle. “Can I fuck one of those commando types we have out there? They look so yummy in those uniforms.”
“Jesus, leave them the fuck alone. I need them to keep watch, not get distracted by your snatch.”
A pissy sniff, then the click-drag uneven sound as she hobbled across the floor followed by the thump of heavy boots, the screech of a heavy door opening and closing and then silence.
“I know you’re awake.”
I snorted with disgust. “Yeah, I know, but no way was I going to talk to that whore. Already broke her leg not sure what I’ll break next if I had to talk to her.”
A rusty sounding laugh rang through the air and then I was slowly turned onto my back and an involuntary groan escaped past my lips.
“Fuck, girl, they did a fucking job on you. Why didn’t you just go with them when they told you to? Why did you fight them?”
The laugh hurt. “They didn’t ask and...there was no way I was going to stand there and let them kill...those women without doing something about it.”
Breathing and talking was starting to hurt, a lot.
The man crouching beside me rubbed his hands over his face and sighed heavily. I didn’t know him and I was sure I have never seen him before. “Jesus Christ. This is becoming a fucking nightmare of epic proportions. They weren’t supposed to hurt anyone, least of all you. Who did they kill?”
Closing my eyes to shut him out as it all played in front of my eyes again. Those bastards dressed like pigs storming into the clubhouse and attacking us. I’ll never forget the looks on the faces of those women as they fell to the floor, blood blooming across their tee shirts.
“I think...they killed Mad Dog and two of...the women and Molly, Hotdogs’...old lady was hurt very badly. Not sure...if any of them survived.”
A rough hand smoothed the hair away from my face and cold brown eyes stared down at me.
Who the hell was this guy?
“Who...are...you?”
He shook his head with a small smile. “Don’t worry about that now. I’m going to get the first aid kit and fix you up a little bit. Get you some water and pain killers.”
My eyes closed and when I opened them he was gone. I didn’t hear him leave or the door open and close. I lay there breathing through the pain and slowly took stock of the area around me. I was in an empty hangar, a freaking hangar. That meant I was at an airport somewhere. Not good. Not good at all.
I watched as the door opened and he came back in followed by another man. Both of them were dressed like commandos, not bikers. Who the fuck were they? A dirty looking scrawny man followed them in, his kutte telling me he was a Road Warrior from the Durban chapter. The patch on his chest said his name was Meerkat.
The biker came and stood over me, his tiny evil eyes shining as he grinned through his ratty beard, showing his yellowed nasty looking teeth.
“You fix her up good so we can have some fun. Don’t care what Speedy says, going to fuck this bitch until she bleeds. Doc fucks with me I will fuck with his blood.”
“You won’t be touching her, no one will.” The man behind him said as he reached out and almost perfunctorily snapped his neck.
“Dispose of the body then get back here, going to need your help wrapping her up.”
I lay there staring at the two of them. What the hell was going on here? Who were these guys and what the hell did they have to do with Speedy and his bunch of losers?
Kneeling beside me again Mr Commando slowly started straightening my legs and I groaned as the movement jarred my aching ribs. Next he lay a space blanket he had extracted from the enormous first aid kit next to me on the floor. Shit, I knew what was going to happen next and I wasn’t looking forward to it.
“Okay, babe, we’re going to move you onto the blanket once my man gets back and then I’m going to wrap those ribs and splint your arm.” He lifted my head as he held to capsules to my lips. “This will help for the pain but won’t take you down. Open up.”
I freaking opened up like a baby bird and he put them on my tongue and held an opened bottle of water to my mouth and I swallowed. By the time we were done the other commando was back and they carefully moved me onto the blanket.
It freaking hurt like a son of a bitch. But soon the drugs kicked in and the pain receded. Not all the way gone but way more bearable.
They had my t-shirt up and off and Mr Commando was checking my ribs and pronounced them cracked not broken. Once they had them wrapped it was the turn of my forearm. It was well and truly broken. That pissed me off because it meant I had two weaknesses to compensate for in the coming fight. I had no doubt there would be a fight because I wasn’t going down without one. But even with cracked ribs, a broken arm and possible concussion I was more than able to kick ass. I just had to find out who these guys were and if they were friendlies.
I didn’t get a chance to find out. Speedy was back. And as usual he was freaking creepy. He was tall and as old as my dad but looked years older. He had let himself go becoming flabby with a belly hanging over his too tight belt. His hair was long and greasy and hung in thin hanks around his face and onto his shoulders. Also, he stank. The smell of unwashed body, beer and weed hung around him. So gross.
“Oh, look at that. You can leave that t-shirt off her, I like looking at those tits and that skin. Doc always kept her away from us but we saw her, oh yes, we all saw her. Doc always acting like she’s too fucking good to be my old lady and then he fucking gives her to the Iron Dogz. How the fuck is that fair? She’s a Warrior, property of the club, so in actual fact club property and we can fuck her anytime we want and I think right about now it’s my turn. Fuck the orders from the boss, she’ll never know.”
The commandos ignored him and helped me into a large black t-shirt. Another thing that came out of the first aid kit. The filthy bastard quickly moved closer.
“I said leave that fucking t-shirt off her.” Speedy snapped through clenched teeth.
My protectors slowly rose from their crouched positions on either side of me and faced the asshole.
“Not happening. Don’t give a fuck what you want or what Doc didn’t give you. That’s none of my business, what is my business is keeping her comfortable and alive before we transport her to the final destination.”
Speedy shoved his face into that of Mr Commando but he didn’t flinch or move.
“You and all your little boys playing soldier out there are dead once this is done. That’s a promise.” Speedy hissed and after giving me one last creepy look he left, slamming the door behind him.
The two men looked at each other, silently communicating.
“We need to get her out of here. I’m not comfortable handing her over to those fucks out there.” Commando number two whispered.
“We’re a bit short on firepower right now. There are six of us and fuck knows how many of them are out there now. I heard bikes pulling in earlier. We need a plan, a good plan or we die for nothing and they still take her.”
Men, always forgetting the little woman at their feet. “You forgot to count me. There’s seven of us. What we need is an easily defensible position from which to hold them off until my man gets here. And he will get here, I promise you.”
Mr Commando shook his head. “A large force attacked the clubhouse, and he quite possibly went down during the attack. He was the main target. We can’t count on him coming for you.”
I threw him an evil grin and winked when he frowned.
“We knew you were coming and were prepared for it. Before they took me I saw a lot of men down but they weren’t ours, they were yours. My man will be coming for me and he will be coming in hard.”
A phone started ringing and I saw the two men looking at each other once again before Mr Commando slipped the phone from his pocket.
“Yes.” That’s all he said as he listened intently, a heavy frown marring his smooth forehead.
“Yes, sir. I understand, we’ll proceed with caution.”
The phone went back into his pocket as he looked down at me.
“You were right. My people have aligned with your man and they are coming in hot and hard. But it’s going to take them between thirty to forty five minutes to get here. We need to get you out of this fucking hangar and somewhere we will have real walls around us. I’m Tin Man and he’s Leo.” He turned to the one he called Leo. “When you disposed of that asshole did you see another way out of here? There has to be more than just that one door.”
Leo shook his head. “I dropped his body behind those crates back there, didn’t look around. I’ll have a look around while you pack up. Watch your backs while I’m gone. I don’t trust that old fuck or that whiny bitch.”
He was so right not to trust them, they were evil. And if Jane was here where was Big Ed? Was he out there with her? I so did not want to meet up with that man, especially not when I was weak.
Tin Man started furiously repacking the stuff he had used back into the first aid kit and he had just zipped it up and tightened the last buckle when the damned door screeched open again.
We were too late.
A guy holding an AK47 and dressed in dark jeans and a dark blue shirt stood in the open door.
“The boss is on the line. Wants to talk to you. Come with me, now.”
Turning to me Tin Man gave me a look. I knew what it meant. We both knew that I was going to be in deep shit the minute he walked through that door. Closing my eyes for a few seconds I looked back at him and nodded. I would fight, no matter what, I would fight and he would be back. I saw the promise in those cold brown eyes.
“Help me up. Not lying on the freaking floor for what’s coming.” I whispered.
He left right after he had helped me to stand and he didn’t close the door behind him. I leant against the cold corrugated iron wall and waited. I knew they were coming, I just didn’t know how many of them. But it no longer mattered. I breathed in and out, bringing that part of me that I now needed desperately to the forefront. Closing my eyes I listened intently and heard the almost silent squeak of a door opening and closing. Not the door across from me, another one.
Leo had found another exit.
I heard them before I saw them. The click drag of her uneven walk and the thump of their boots.
Jane, Big Ed and Speedy came through the open door, the last one through closing it behind them.
I watched without saying a word as they crowded around me. Jane poked at the wounds on my face but I gave her nothing because I no longer felt anything. The Crow was in charge.
“I’m not fucking her on the floor, drag that crate over here. We’ll lay her over it so we can go at her from both ends.” Big Ed said with a wide grin.
“I’m going to shove my pussy in her face while you fuck her. Going to fuck her face while you fuck her ass.” Instead of scaring me she just grossed me out.
The Crow gave a low hissing laugh. “Fair warning. Don’t stick your dirty snatch in my face. You do and I will go Hannibal Lecter on your fucking clit.”
Big Ed laughed uproariously. “I fucking like her. Small but so full of fire. She would have been the fucking perfect old lady for me. Doc should have given me what I wanted. Now I’m just going to take what always should have been mine.”
Giving a disgusted snort I looked into his glittering eyes. “Doc was only too glad Hawk claimed me as his old lady. He was getting pissed off with me always turning his suggestions down.”
Big Ed’s eyes narrowed. “He let you have that much freedom? The man is stupider than I thought.”
Asshole.
Behind him Speedy was huffing and puffing as he dragged a big crate over to the centre of the hangar. And then my time was up and hell came calling.
They dragged me over to the crate and the pain from my cracked ribs and broken arm spiked through me, making me hiss. I fought them, as much as I could. But there were three of them and one of me and I wasn’t at my best. They had me pinned on top of the crate, my head hanging off one side, my legs off the other.
I kicked out as they tried to take my boots and inflicted quite a bit of damage until Speedy grabbed my broken arm and squeezed. I screamed in pain but kept right on kicking. I saw the butt of the gun coming towards me then a flash of pain and it went dark.
When I came back from that dark everything ached. My entire body.
OhGodohGodohGodohGod. The words flowed together and ran on a continuous loop through my brain as I feared the worst.
I heard the sounds of fighting on my right and froze. I was having trouble focusing and blinked furiously trying to clear my vision and then he was back.
Tin Man. He had taken a beating but he was there, right next to me with horror in his eyes as he covered my nakedness with the space blanket.
“So fucking sorry, sweetheart. So very fucking sorry. His fucking men jumped me, I fought them off but it took some time. Thank fuck I got here before they could rape you but you’ve been hurt. Got to get you cleaned up and out of here. We have to get you to a hospital. It’s going to be a bit embarrassing and hurt like a son of a bitch but it has to be done, so you hold on, okay.”
Taking in a deep breath that hurt like hell I croaked out my question. “What did they do to me?”
A warm hand wrapped around the fingers of my unhurt hand and I jerked.
“Shhh, DC, it’s me, Leo. Hold on to me and let Tin Man help you. We’ve got you now and very soon your man is going to be here and those fuckers are going to pay for what they did. We’ve got them all nicely packaged for him.”
“What did they do? It hurts like hell, just tell me.”
Tin Man’s glove covered hand wrapped around my chin and forced my eyes to meet his.
“You’ve been beaten and that fucked up bitch was cutting into your lower abdomen, you’re bleeding heavily. I’m going to clean away the blood and disinfect the area as much as I can then pack it with gauze, get you dressed and then we’re out of here. Leo has a ride waiting for us at the back door.”
His hands were gentle as he cleaned me and through it all Leo never let go of my hand. There were men around us and I had a glimpse of Speedy and Big Ed lying on the floor with guns against their heads. Where the hell was Jane? All the men pointedly kept their backs to me as Tin Man worked on my belly.
He dressed me in soft sweat pants and a t-shirt and lifted me from the crate once he had tied my boots. I moaned softly as I put my weight on my feet, pain spiked throughout my body.
Speedy and Big Ed were gagged and on their stomachs on the cement floor, their arms pulled behind them, their legs up against their asses. They had hogtied them. And it had been done so tight they were groaning in pain through their gags.
Gunfire erupted outside the hangar. I was gently guided to take cover behind the crate as the sounds of heavy fighting echoed around us. And then it all stopped and the watching men instantly formed a human wall around me, their automatic weapons trained on the door. As Tin Man, Leo and I slowly retreated towards the open door where our transportation was waiting.
The door gave a loud screech as it was kicked open and banged against the wall.
And then he was there. My man. My beautiful Viking.
He stormed in with his brothers and men I didn’t recognise, but I ignored them all, my eyes fixed firmly on my man. Nothing else mattered.
On the command from one of the men with Hawk the men around me slowly lowered their weapons. My protectors sighed with relief.
Hawk stalked across the hangar towards me until he saw the top of the crate. He stopped dead, looked from the crate to me, his eyes sweeping my body me from head to toe.
I saw the rage burning in those beautiful eyes as he came towards me, his eyes never leaving mine. Until he stopped right in front of me and very gently clasped a hand around my throat.
“What did they do to you, my little bird?”
Stupid freaking tears started to burn in my eyes and I just shook my head. I couldn’t stop those damned tears from brimming over and running down my cheeks. What the hell? What was wrong with me?
Hawk was losing it and I was a blubbering mess and unable to calm him down. Tin Man came to the rescue.
“They didn’t have time to do their worst but she has been injured. Not sure she can walk and we have to get her out of here, right the fuck now. I’ve done what I can but it’s not enough she needs a hospital.”
Warm, hard arms slipped around me, lifting me and carefully holding me against his wide, warm chest. I relaxed into him, sighing as the heat of his body seeped into my icy limbs.
My man, my Viking. He had come for me. Like I knew he would.
I was safe.
