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I wanted to tell him that we did too, or at least one that mattered, but I kept my mouth shut. I had no idea what he would do with that type of leverage. Instead, I leveled an icy glare his way.
“Why don’t you find an abandoned house or a store, hunker down, and live happily ever after. Have babies. Get an erection. I don’t give a fuck what you do,” I suggested through gritted teeth. Ronan hummed his agreement from beside me.
“Because people are savages, man. They will try to take it from us!”
At that, I couldn’t help but let out a bark of laughter. The fucking irony.
Kai must’ve realized how his words had been construed, for his frown deepened.
“We’re not bad people,” he insisted.
“No.” I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. “You’re just someone who holds knives to strangers’ necks. Not bad people at all.”
Kai’s hand teetered dangerously close to an artery in my neck before he dropped the knife with a resigned sigh.
“Look, I just need to-”
I never did find out what he needed. One second he was talking, and the next he let out a strangled scream as a Rager jumped on his back and bit his neck. No, not a Rager.
A fucking Tommy.
Blood coated Tommy’s mouth as he released Kai, and the man fell to his knees. His hand went to cover the wound while his eyes widened eminently.
“Fucking hell, Tommy,” I cursed, eyes shifting from his blood-stained mouth to the fallen leader. With a shrug, Tommy wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
“What? I saved you, didn’t I?” The little asshole raised a brow and cocked his hip to the side, daring me to disagree with him. I had the distinct feeling that he would leave me here to die if I did anything but praise his holiness.
Fortunately, Tommy grabbed the knife that had clattered to the floor and cut loose my bindings before I could reply. Once freed, I scrambled to Ronan and pulled the sock out of his mouth. He immediately began to gag.
“Fucking asshole,” he mumbled beneath his breath, his retching turning into dramatic dry-heaving. I patted his back and held his short-cropped hair away from his face.
“There, there sweetheart,” I teased mockingly. With his hands still tied, he could do little but glare at me.
Tommy was singing softly about being the “badass of the badasses” and Kai was moaning. Besides that, and the occasional crack of thunder breaking apart the sky, it was silent.
Which was why, only seconds later, the screams broke through the accustomed silence like the crack of a whip.
* * *
Addie
Don’t panic.
I repeated those words in my head like a mantra, a chant, a prayer.
Don’t panic.
I could see a dozen emotions flicker in Tam’s gaze before it settled on determination. His jaw clenched so tightly I was afraid it would break, he moved so that I was against the wall and he was in front of me. His hands pushed down on my shoulders, forcing me to my knees. Any words I wanted to say, any protests I wanted to make, were silenced by one look into his cold eyes. This wasn’t the shy boy from before or even the confident man. He was a stranger, and for the first time since I met him, pinpricks of terror danced across my skin. My stomach plummeted at the predatory-like awareness in his gaze.
His hands moved from my shoulders and into my hair, pressing my face against the waistband of his pants.
The fuck…?
Before I could even raise an eyebrow, the bathroom door was kicked in and light from a flashlight momentarily blinded me. I flinched, immediately shifting to move to my feet, but one yank on my hair from Tam kept me on my knees before him.
Finally, Tam removed his grip with more callousness than I was used to from my sweet boy. He turned towards the newcomer, one hand moving to zip up his pants.
“Do you mind?” Tam asked coldly. I didn’t recognize that voice, just as I didn’t recognize his glacial expression. Was this an act?
