“Don’t worry, pretty.” He cupped her face. “I’ll be a half hour, tops. Then we’ll come get the girl, and you can go back and suck Granite’s cock all you like.” He let go of her face and turned to me. “Now, be good. I’ll see you two in a little bit.”
He winked, and I swore the goddamn snake on his face moved as well.
“Oh, and Tanit,” he scratched the side of his face, “don’t hurt her. I’d like to be the one doing all the hurting when I get back.”
All I could do was sit there, bound and terrified out of my mind. I had survived a lot during the past few weeks. But this…him…I didn’t think I stood a chance that I’d ever survive what he had in store for me.
19
Granite
I couldn’t stop pacing.The PC didn’t say whether he was letting us go or not, and I had no idea how long it had been. It felt like fucking years while I stared at these walls, wondering where she was, whether she was okay. Whether whoever had her was hurting her. It was the worst fucking torture I had ever experienced in my life. Not knowing. God. The not knowing was the worst part.
My mind reeled, and my stomach felt like it had been filled with concrete. The fact that I was stuck behind these bars unable to do shit was tearing me the fuck apart.
“You think he has her?”
I cut my gaze to Onyx still leaning his head against the wall, staring up at the ceiling.
“You mean Slither?”
“Yup.”
I didn’t reply. I didn’t want to, because I couldn’t stomach the thought of that being the case. But no matter how much I wanted not to think about it, the odds were pretty fucking good that Slither had her. Who else would tip off the cops, only to create a diversion while they snatched Alyx right from under my goddamn nose?
The steel door creaked open, and Onyx and I looked in that direction. Detective Harrison and the PC came rushing in, the detective unlocking the gates to the cell.
Confused as fuck, I eyed the PC. “What is going on?”
The look on his face made the hair in the back of my neck stand up.
“What the hell is going on?”
“You’re free to go.”
“What? How?” Not that I was complaining.
The PC scrubbed his chin with his thumb. “We got a situation.”
“What situation?”
The detective closed the steel door to ensure we had privacy, and the PC stepped up to me. “Someone called the station saying they know where Alyx is.”
“Where is she?” I didn’t care about the who, or the what, or the when. All I cared about was finding her.
“We don’t know that yet.” The PC started pacing, and the detective leaned against the open gate of the cell.
I threw my hands in the fucking air and was about to rip someone’s goddamn head off. “Who the fuck do I have to kill to get some answers here?”
The commissioner stopped, his face pale and eyes worried. “The person said he’ll only talk to you, and no one else.”
“Me?”
“Yeah, you. He said to meet him outside the aquarium in thirty minutes. If you don’t show up, he disappears, and we’ll never find Alyx.”
I was still trying to register what the fuck the PC just said when Onyx burst out laughing like a total maniac. “Oh, this has Slither written all over it.”
“What the fuck, Onyx?” I warned.