“Where is she?” I demanded. He pulled harder on the hair of the girl at his feet. She let out a whimper. She was only clad in underwear, some lacy shit. I couldn’t see her face, but I did notice the drops of blood that dripped from it, staining the cream colored carpet.
“Harmony?” he asked like he was completely clueless to as why I was here. “Oh, she was picked up this morning. The client was euphoric. It's a shame you didn’t take me up on that deal.”
My blood boiled.
She was gone.
“Who took her and where have they gone?”
“I don’t ask for those kind of details. They are private.” The jerk had the nerve to smirk at me. “Although I do have this girl here you could have.”
He yanked her head up and her eyes met mine. She was pretty, even with blood streaming from her nose. Her eyes were a light blue, her hair almost black. She had a fierce look on her face. A look of defiance and anger. She wasn’t my girl, but I’d take her when all this is done, help her to escape this madness.
I heard gunshots echoing in the expansive house. Men yelling, people screaming in pain.
Daniel shifted slowly to the side, another door just a few steps away through which I presumed he thought he was going to escape.
“Kill him,” Daniel ordered. He picked the girl up and held her in front of his body as protection. Now my shot was blocked and he knew it. He knew I wouldn’t hit the girl and risk her life.
The man in the dark glasses beside him grinned, his gun aimed at me and his finger rubbing at the trigger. With my focus on Daniel and the girl, I knew he would get me before I could switch my aim to him.
The door behind me burst open and several shots went off.
My ears rang.
My head hurt.
There was so much noise.
Yelling.
People asking if I was all right.
Was I hit?I hadn’t felt it, but sometimes with the amount of adrenaline sweeping through your body, pain takes a backseat in your mind.
“Kit?” I looked up to see Tally standing over me.Why was I on the floor?
The dude in the suit who had been ready to blow my head off was slumped against the wall, his head hanging unnaturally. The young girl was pressed between the corner of the wall and a large tallboy dresser, her eyes staring down at the floor by my feet, wide as saucers.
My gaze shifted down to the body that was crumbled on the carpet. His eyes were wide open, but staring at nothing.Dead man’s eyes.
“Caleb,” I said quietly.
“Hit you with the door when he decided to barge in here like a hero. Took a bullet, and still managed to shoot the fucker between the eyes,” Tally said sadly, crouching beside me and offering me his hand. He pulled me up and I finally took note of all the Brothers that stood in the room, staring at their fallen comrade.
“Pick him up,” Optimus ordered, but I heard the sadness that drenched his voice. “We gotta get outta here.”
I silently thanked the kid as I watched him be carried from the room, swearing to do right by him for saving my ass. Daniel Ashley may have escaped me today. But he’d keep.