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He took a few seconds, his eyes moving from me to Op and then to Leo, who flanked my body on either side but none of us had a clean shot.

“She’s perfectly fine,” he protested almost smugly. “Back in that state of bliss and peace that her mind used to crave so often.”

“You fed her up on those fucking pills again, didn’t you,” I screamed, taking a step forward. As far as I could tell, he had no weapon. I could run at him, take him down and get him away from her before he could do anything to hurt her.

I edged forward, but he shook his head, holding up his hand and shaking a little baggy, identical to the one we’d found in Ruby’s locker at X-Rated.

“You don’t wanna do that,” he warned, his eyes shifting around the room as though looking for an escape. He wouldn’t find one, though. There was no way I was letting him walk out of here. Whether I got a hold of him or had to carry out a dead body, he wasn’t walking away from this.

“You’d like some more of these wouldn’t you my little addict?” he whispered to Sugar. Her eyes moved drearily to where he held them raised in his hand.

She nodded slowly, as though she was in a trance.

No, this wasn’t her.

This was the drugs.

She was lost inside her own mind. He’d poisoned her and she couldn’t fight her way out.

“Open your mouth,” he ordered, and she quickly responded, her lips falling apart.

“Sugar, stop,” I screamed and for a second her eyes focused, widening slightly and looking to me. “You don’t need them. I’m here. I’m not going anywhere.”

She didn’t respond, but I saw a glimmer of recognition in her eyes before it flicked away again with just a shake of that damn bag. She was like a fucking zombie, no thoughts of her own, just following her need for drugs, her addiction.

“Why the club, Eric?” Optimus spoke up, trying to keep him talking. Hoping to draw his attention away from her. “You’ve been trying to bust us for years.”

Eric frowned. “Your damn club and its rules. People are afraid of you, and the ones that aren’t don’t see Alabama as a money making state, so it’s not worth them fighting for it,” he sneered. “But I saw an opportunity, I just needed you lot out of the way.”

“So you can start selling drugs and trafficking women?” I asked in disgust.

“Whether you want to believe it or not, there’s a market for it, and it’s going on constantly.” Eric chuckled, but he was shifting nervously because he knew there was no way out. “Someone has bought her. In thirty fucking minutes, they’ll want her. They don’t get her, that’s fucking on you. They’ll come after you.”

“That’s a risk we’ll take,” Optimus growled, clenching his gun tighter in his hand, his finger poised on the trigger.

I could see his brain turning over and over, considering his options, and I hoped for the life of me, that he chose not to go against us.

Turns out, desperate men do desperate things.

He shuffled their bodies backward. Sugar moving with him like a puppet, even though her eyes were still fixated on mine. She was in there somewhere, we could still get her back, but after this I wasn’t sure just how long that would take.

The sound of the elevator stunned us all for a second, someone was on the floor, wanting to get in. Eric used the distraction to his advantage. He held her in front of him and tipped her head back, pouring the contents of the bag into her mouth and pressing it closed, so she had no choice.

His eyes met mine, they were full of glee, and I couldn’t hold myself back any longer. I ran at him and once again he used Sugar to protect himself, shoving her body forward and diving for the open door beside him.

I caught her and stumbled backward, but he only made it halfway through the doorway, his body in mid-air when it was hit by a flurry of bullets. The bottom half kept moving forward while the top half was thrown backward with the force, dumping him on the floor, his limbs spread in awkward and unnatural positions.

Blizzard leaped over him as I lowered Sugar to the ground and pulled her head into my lap, trying my best to dig out as many of pills from her mouth as I could find.

I knew there were far more.

She’d swallowed them.

Blizzard was shaking in fury. “Fuck! I couldn’t do anything, if I’d stepped out he would have seen me so I couldn’t tell if he had a weapon or not.”

“Let us in,” a voice came booming from speakers in the room. It was Kit, they were in the elevator.

Leo rushed out to get them.

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