AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Here, drink some water,” he says and brings a bottle to my lips. It just dribbles down my chin. I’ve had enough water sprayed at me while I was strung up to last a lifetime.
“Can you walk?” he asks nervously. “We have to hurry. They’re gone now, but they could be back any minute.”
My fuzzy, stupid brain finally gets its shit together and I somehow manage to move my legs in the approximate right position to let me stand. But it’s not gonna happen without the help of my arms, which are full of extremely annoyingly painful pins and needles now.
“Help me up,” I manage to croak and he does.
He’s stronger than he looks, I’ll give him that, and I do think about saying it as I lean on him generously and let him half carry me out of the room. Then down a dark corridor, lit only by the open door at the end of it and the moonlight streaming through.
We reach the door eventually and the fresh, slightly crisp air on my face finally tells me I’m free. Or as near as.
“Where are we?” I ask kinda stupidly. We’re in some sort of compound, surrounded by a tall chain linked fence. There are three other buildings besides the one he dragged me out of, all dark, and the gravelly ground is crisscrossed by tire tracks of bikes and cars.
“An abandoned clubhouse,” he says. “It belonged to Crow Party MC.”
I’ve heard that name before. I think the Devils took them all out decades ago, long before my time with them, in other words.
“There’s the car,” he says pointing into the darkness behind one of the buildings. “Can you drive?”
“I honestly doubt it very much,” I tell him.
“You’ll have to,” he says.
“Where are we?” I ask causing him to look at me sharply, concern all over his face.
“What state? What city?” I clarify.
“Border of Nevada, Oregon and Idaho,” he says. “Near a town called St. John.”
That means almost nothing to me. He keeps dragging me to the car and I let him.
“And where’s Harper?”
“Who?”
“The woman who was with me,” I say. The love of my life, I should’ve said.
“She was here,” he says. “But then some big old guy with a beard took her somewhere. A place called the Orchard or the Grove or something.”
I stop dead, yanking him back. Some feeling is returning to my arms and legs and the pain everywhere is terrible.
“Which is it?” I ask. “And where?”
“Grove,” he says and tries to get me moving again. “But I don’t know where it is or how far it is from here. Come on, you have to get outta here.”
“Take me there,” I say and start moving again.
“I’m not taking you anywhere,” he says. “You’re going, I’m staying. “I’m setting you free, like you set me free from prison. I didn’t know they’d take your woman too. I thought they just wanted your help with this war against Devil’s Nightmare MC. I swear I didn’t know they were going to torture you. Honest Jax, I didn’t know.”
Bit by bit, I start to understand what he’s trying to tell me.
“You’re the reason they found us?” I ask and if I had just a little more feeling in my arms I’d probably grab him by the throat.
“She posted on Instagram and kept the location tagging on. She might as well have posted the address,” he says. “I didn’t know what they’d do. I swear.”
“What the fuck did you think?” I snap. “That they just wanted a chat with us?”
“We have to keep moving,” he says and keeps on walking and pulling me after him. “I’ll take you as far as the hospital.”
