“My family. When they don’t, they’ll descend on this place like a swarm of fucking locusts and wipe you all the fuck out, including the girl. You have no idea who you’re messing with.”
“Oh, I think I’ve got a good idea, and I think you’ve probably underestimated us.”
He snorts through the blood and the tears and the cum. “A bunch of redneck American bikers against the cartel? You’re all walking dead men, especially when my family find out what you’ve done to me.”
I chuckle. “The family who didn’t even support you coming here? I’d like to be a fly on the wall for that conversation. I’m sure your father would love to hear how you got a face full of cum and a broken broom handle shoved up your ass. Will you tell him you lost your load, too? That you liked it?”
He glares at me with fire in his eyes. “Fuck you!”
“Too late, I already fucked you, in more ways than one.”
I pull out the handle and toss it to one side. “Hogtie him again,” I tell Big Mike. “We’ll come back for round two later.”
“You might as well kill me now,” Ledger says.
I shake my head at him. “You should be dead, but I’m not going to give you the pleasure. I’d rather keep youhere to torture and use you as insurance, for the moment, anyway. I can always change my mind on that.”
Putting myself away, I observe the chaos I’ve created. “Oh, one more thing.” I look to Big Mike. “Mind if I borrow your gun?”
He hands it to me.
With three quick shots, I put a bullet in each of the Numbnuts skulls. Then we leave Ledger to think over what he’s done.
19
CAMILE
I wakewith a jolt and look around, disoriented. What time is it? My cell is on the table by the couch. Who gave me my phone back? I blink at it, and then remember, Ghost. One of the prospects called and handed it to him via Jack.
It’s good to have it back, but I’d have preferred Jack bring it. He seems to be avoiding me, which hurts. I had several messages from my friends back at the university, checking up on me, but nothing from Vani, which I understand. I haven’t replied to them yet, which I’m feeling a little guilty about, but I just haven’t had it in me. I haven’t heard from my mom or brother either, and I can only hope they’re still safe. At least I know I’ve sent Ledger’s family off on a wild goose chase by giving them a completely random location for the safehouse. It should buy my family some time.
There are some snacks and a big bottle of Coke on the tabletop, too. Ghost and I were watching movies, andI must have fallen asleep. Picking up my phone, I see it’s almost ten in the morning. I’ve slept for some time.
Bone-deep weariness covers my entire body, though, despite the sleep, and I’m pretty sore. Voices reach me from the kitchen.
That must be what woke me. I tune in to what they are saying and realize it’s Ace and Ghost talking.
“Seriously, I’m fine to stay and watch over her.”
That’s Ace.
Ghosts reply is unsure sounding. “You were pretty damn wound up earlier. She needs calm energy.”
“I’m calm now, motherfucker. I’ve had a great workout and taken my frustrations out on Ledger.”
“What did you do?” Ghost asks.
There’s a dark laugh. “I did to him what his men made Rook do to Camile.”
Oh, fuck. Theyknow? All of it? Embarrassment covers me, the way the men’s cum did, all sticky and gross. Obviously, they’d have figured out something bad happened, but do they know exactly what? Did Rook tell them? Why would he do that? Perhaps he felt he had no choice.
Ghost’s low rumble meets my ears. “What happened, exactly?”
“I think it’s Camile’s story to tell.” Ace’s reply surprises me. “I only know because Ledger blurted it out thinking it would save him, but instead it motivated me to really make him pay.”
What he’s saying slots into place, and my mouth falls open. Ace did to Ledger what Ledger allowed to be done to me? Ace… did Ace fuck Ledger up the ass?
God, if he did, I am not sure how I feel about that. It seems I’m not alone in that thought.
