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I don’t answer him, instead choosing to pick my little girl up and hold her in my arms. She is the most precious thing to me and I will make sure that she knows how loved and cherished she is. I promise she will have a much better life than I have.
THIRTY-FOUR
EMMA
“When it happens, it’ll happen fast,” my guard explains out of nowhere. He wasn’t even looking at me as he said it which left me even more confused.
“What are you talking about?” My nose pinches up as I look at him. “When what happens?”
He doesn’t answer, instead choosing to continue staring at the door to the area we’re in. It’s the first words he’s spoken to me in hours. Hell, it’s the first words anyone has spoken to me since my father left me in here to rot. The male I had been used to having to guard me had left for a short time, probably to go use the restroom, and then returned to the room a few minutes later. The male that had taken his place was even more of a hardass than the guy I had grown used to. His replacement gave me a dirty filthy look that left me feeling like I needed a shower. I could have sworn he had been trying to undress me with his eyes and I wasn’t happy about it. Having my normal guard return was actually a sigh of relief for me. At least he didn’t look at me like I was a piece of ass only good for sex.
With a huff, I cross my arms and settle back against the cold cement wall at my back. He wasn’t going to give me any answers. Just continue to talk in riddles until it drove me mad. I don’t think he was happy that I still denied my father what he wanted. I would do the same thing over and over again until my dying breath. At this point, I was making it my mission to drive my father insane.
I had to have been in this building for over a day by this point, maybe going on two. I wasn’t positive but I was hoping my father would soon be moving me again. Not like I wanted it to be harder for Trevor and the others to find me, but I was seriously over this cold-ass warehouse and was hoping for some maybe nicer accommodations. This cell he placed me in didn’t even have a cot for me to lie down on. Nor did it have a blanket or pillow. Nothing to help my hunt for sleep come any faster. Closing my eyes, I rested my head against the wall and wished for sleep to claim me. I thought it would be hard but my family was so exhausted from being in fight-or-flight mode that sleep claimed me a lot faster. The noises around me lessened and the darkness claimed me.
I’m not sure how long I had been asleep but a loud banging noise on my cell bars startled me awake sometime later. I had been in a deep sleep so it took me a little bit of time to fully wake up and look around me. The room seemed to be much darker than when I had first fallen asleep. As my eyes adjust to the room I finally see what caused to me wake up. My guard was banging the butt of his handgun against the cell bars.
“I finally was getting some damn sleep,” I grumble, pushing myself to stand. “Why did you have to fucking wake me?”
“It’s time,” his gruff voice calls out as he holds his gun in front of him, pointing at the floor.
“Time for what?” I move forward and wrap my hands around the metal bars. What the fuck has this man been talking about? Did he mean that my father was going to be moving me once again?
Once again the asshole standing in front of me doesn’t answer. Right, when I’m about to ask once more I hear it. Loud bangs sound from all around us like doors being burst open. My hands tighten around the bars until my fingers feel like they're going numb with how hard I’m holding onto them.
What the fuck is going on?
My guard tightens his grip on his gun and starts to raise it slowly towards the door. I’m starting to think he knows something no one else does. “Stand back against the wall, Emma,” he demands, not once turning to look at me. His shoulders tighten as shots start to be heard from just outside the room were in.
I do as he instructs, quickly backing against the wall. My fingers desperately claw against it hoping to find something to use as a weapon but I come up empty. Instead, I move into a fighting position and hold my hands in front of me. Over a decade ago, Trevor had taught me how to fight. I haven’t used those skills since high school but my muscles seemed to remember some because I easily was able to fall into a defensive position.
The shots continued to get closer, more of them ringing out. I have no idea what’s going on but I’m really hoping it’s my rescue party and that none of them get hurt. I don’t think I would forgive myself for that. I’m not worth it, at least not in my eyes, even if I really do want to get back to my daughter and lover. With each shot, my body jumps a little, the fear of the moment getting to me.
Eventually, the door to our room bursts open. I jump back, slamming my head against the wall, and let out a small squeak. The guy who was supposed to be protecting me doesn’t even fire one shot. He raised the gun to point at the intruders but lowers it almost immediately as Steel walks into the room along with some tall burly looking guy behind him sporting some sort of black leather vest. I’m guessing he has to be a member of the Chaos Brotherhood.
“Steel,” I cry out, rushing towards the front of my cell. “You guys came for me!”
“Hey, Trouble Maker,” he smiles brightly. “We couldn’t just leave you here with your cruel ass father. Not let’s get your pretty little ass out of here before the building comes down.”
“Comes down?” I squeak, looking around all of us. “What the hell are you all planning?”
“You don’t wanna know,” he mumbles. “Hudson, the key,” he turns to the man that had been guarding me and holds out his hand.
“Hudson? Your name is Hudson!” I grumble looking at the man who has been guarding me. “All this damn time you refused to tell me your name. How the hell do you two know each other?”
We had been together all this damn time and not once did he mention that he knew anyone who would be coming for me. He even told me to tell my father everything he wanted to know! Why the fuck would he do that?
“Don’t go romanticizing anything in that little brain of yours,” he calls out while handing the key to Steel. “I’m not a good man. Just doing my job.”
“Ignore him. If you want answers ask Trevor once we’re out of here,” Steel jumps in before I can say anything else. At the same time, he finishes talking the door to my cell opens. Immediately, I’m wrapping my arms around his neck, ignoring the pain from the movement. He holds me against him in a quick hug but all too soon he’s pulling back and hiding me behind him. “Stay close and do exactly what I say.”
“Steel,” Hudson calls out from behind us.
“We didn’t forget,” the other man who entered the room with Steel states as he moves past us. I turn to look behind and watch as he strikes Hudson against the side of his head, hard enough to cause him to start bleeding. Next, he places a swift kick to his stomach and another to his left calf causing him to drop to his knees.
“Whatever you see or hear do not react,” Steel explains as he pulls me along behind him. He has one hand intertwined with my own as his other holds a rifle in front of him. With a quick check outside the door, we start moving quickly along the wall. The man who just beat up Hudson is behind me protecting my back as we move. It’s quick and efficient. They barely give me a chance to look around, instead focusing on getting us out of the chaos. Every so often I get pulled behind a pillar to duck out of the way of shots being fired before we continue our pursuit to the door. In no time we’re exiting the warehouse through a nearby back door and they are leading me far away from the building and my asshole father.
It’s a relief to be free. I knew they would come from me. Now, I just need to see Trevor and hold my daughter in my arms for this nightmare to be over. While I wait for Trevor, Steel helps tuck me into the back seat of one of the waiting SUVs. He climbs in beside me and the rest of the team who helped him get me are staying outside of the vehicle guns raised guarding us. My hands clench and unclench with nerves and fear as we wait. He better come out of this alive or I may just revive him just to kill him myself.
