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Fuck!
Can I blame her, though? When your parents pretty much end up selling you off to the man you’re trying to escape, just to enable some fucked up business transaction… trusting others is difficult, especially the man that left you all those years before.
“Finally!” All the cars start moving away, and we head toward the safe-house, Madds rushing in the other direction. I don’t know how else we’ll be hit, if we will, but I just hope no one will be following him.
Damn, this whole night took such a fucking turn.
* * *
“You better havea good fucking explanation for why we were practically dragged here by this neanderthal, Serpent!” It’s Loreley’s melodic voice that splits our ears as she shouts from the bottom of her lungs the moment her and Morrigan enter the concrete corridor, at the other end from where Finn and I wait.
She walks with such determination in her step, making her look as imposing as us. A businesswoman. Fearless.
Morrigan, on the other hand, her furious eyes pin me down, her hands rolling into fists repeatedly, and she looks as if she’s about to charge at me.
“Dragging me like that and bringing us into this damn bunker! Luke is gonna be worried!” Loreley keeps shouting as they get closer.
“Oh, I very much doubt that.” Finn smirks next to me.
“What?!” She quickens her step. “What the fuck did you do to him?! Is this your goddamn ploy? Your way of convincing us to take your money and bring us into some shady fucking business?!” Madds slips by Morrigan and catches Loreley by the upper arms, just as she’s about to lunge at Finn.
“I swear to God, you brute, if you don’t let me go right now, I’ll chop your dick off!” She shakes her body as she tries to get a good look at the man that’s a head taller than her, and I have to give it to her… she has balls.
The scar that sweeps down from his forehead to his cheek, just about missing his eye, gives his powerful and grave look a menacing touch. Not that he needs it. His six-foot-five frame, wide and packed with fighting muscles, would be enough, especially since he never smiles for the sake of pleasantries. He scares the living daylight out of most people just by leaning his head in the right direction. Yet Loreley doesn’t seem to flinch around him.
“Luke is here.” Finn pauses as he squeezes the door handle. “But he has nothing to do with our proposal for Metamorphosis. On the contrary…” He slowly opens the door.
“…the contrary?” Morrigan has been quiet up until now, and I have to give it to her, I was expecting her to lash out since her eyes landed on me. I guess her recklessness chooses its battles after all.
“Luke!” Loreley screams as she passes us by.
“What the fuck did you do, Serpent?” Morrigan stops by me, her voice low but rough, only her head turned to me, her lips in a straight line, eyebrows furrowed. She doesn’t linger, but steps into the room, taking in the image before her: Luke with a bleeding nose and a bloody, swollen eye, tied to the chair in the middle of the sterile room, Carter quietly watching him from afar.
“Baby, untie me! Get me out of here!” he pleads with his girl. “This is all your fault, bitch!” he spits at Morrigan that just walked into the room. “You fucking ruined everything for Loreley!”
Morrigan doesn’t respond, but I don’t miss the flinch of the muscles on her back.
“How about we tell these lovely ladies what you graciously told us after only two punches? What do you say?” Finn walks around to the table and grabs Luke’s phone. “Or better yet, let’s start with the phone call you made when you weregoing to talk to the firemen.”
“Baby, don’t listen to them. They’re all lies! They’re trying to get to you, get in the middle of us!” he begs, pathetic desperation clear in his eyes. Does he really think Loreley is that stupid?
“Let him the hell out of these ties!” She swings around, heaving as she looks at Finn.
“Give us a moment, and then you can decide for yourself what you want to do.” Finn brings out the phone and stands next to the chair.
“Start explaining, Finn. I’m losing my damn patience here.” Morrigan is behind her friend, a shield protecting her from us.
“When darling Luke over here went upstairs to supposedly talk to the firemen, he actually went to make a phone call,” he responds, a wicked smile pulling at his lips, but it’s doused in cunning anger.
“We sent our man upstairs, if you remember,” I take over, “and when we left, we found him, held tight by our men, as he was spouting useless protests. And that is when we were told that when our man followed him, Luke said these particular words on the call:There’s something you need to know, Morrigan came back, but she’s…And that was the moment our man took the phone away.”
“And I’m supposed to believe your man?! Surely you must have more than that to go on! It means nothing!” Loreley whips her head around, her eyes shooting daggers at me, and Morrigan follows.
“Finn, give Morrigan the phone,” I tell him.
She takes it away, confused.
“Check the number. Call it if you wish…”
