AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“I need her fucking back, Ace.”
“I know, man.” He reaches over and squeezes my shoulder. “Trust me, I get it. And we’re going to get her back. Hadley is stronger than this, and lucky for her, we’re better than Donny fucking Lopez. You don’t work for that cunt for as long as I have and not learn a few of his tricks.”
The next couple of hours are up there with some of the longest of my life as we watch Donny’s guys below do exactly as Ace predicted. They get bored and start wandering around instead of hiding in the shadows like he guessed they would.
They expected us to turn up before now.
“Why don’t we own a sniper rifle?” I ask. It’s not really a serious question, more just something to fill the painful silence around us. “It would have made this so much fucking easier.”
“Probably because I don’t really want to spend the rest of my life locked up for armed murder. That something you’re interested in?”
I swallow nervously. I could already be put away for a long time if the truth were to ever surface. And for all I know, every motherfucker down there knows my secret. Another reason why killing them off one by one seems appealing to me right now.
“No one would know it’s us.”
Ace narrows his eyes at me. “You’re fucking serious.”
“Oh, so you wouldn’t be saying the same if it meant getting Remi back in one piece.”
“Fuck me, Cole. You really fucking love her, don’t you?”
“I… uh…” My chest tightens.
“Yeah, don’t worry, bro. It takes a while to get used to.” Silence falls between us as I try to accept his words, but much like everything else that’s happened in the couple of days, they just don’t register.
I don’t think anything will until I can pull Hadley into my arms once more, knowing that she’s okay.
“Right. I’m done waiting. Shall we?”
Ace pushes from the ground and holds the car keys out for me. “You know where to wait, yeah?” I nod. “Don’t follow too close. You give yourself up, and all this is fucked.”
“I won’t. I got this.”
“Good. I’ll see you at the other end, brother.” He pulls me into a hug. I expect it to be a quick one, but when he holds me a little longer than I was anticipating, I start to wonder what he’s really trying to tell me with his unusual show of affection.
“Take those motherfuckers down.”
“As many as I can.”
He disappears into the undergrowth as I fall down into the driver’s seat, ready to go and park up in a layby tha
t will give me the perfect vantage point to see everyone who enters, and most importantly, exits, the trailer park. I’ve just got to hope that the vehicle I choose to trail holds my brother and leads us both to my girl.
Chapter Three
Hadley
I have no idea how long I’ve been here when the door creaks open again.
“And stay the fuck down,” someone yells as a body is thrown inside the trailer.
“A-Ace?” I let out a sob of relief—until I get a look at his mangled face. Blood seeps from a gash in his eye, and his lip is swollen and sore.
“Oh my God,” I breathe.
“It looks worse than it is.” He crawls toward me on his knees, and it’s then I realize that his hands are also bound.
“Why is he doing this?”
