Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 82112 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 411(@200wpm)___ 328(@250wpm)___ 274(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 82112 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 411(@200wpm)___ 328(@250wpm)___ 274(@300wpm)
I’d already known that Blaise believed Haisley was sent to Tampa, but I’d been holding out hope that AJ had kept her with him.
Blaise shook his head. “No, but he’s angry, and he’s not talking. Well, he’s currently unconscious. He spit on Tex, and he knocked him out in return.”
I ran my hand through my hair and began pacing.
What if someone else had taken her? If we were on the wrong path and something happened to her while I was chasing fucking Vipers …
I struggled to breathe. Motherfucker, my chest hurt. I needed to know where she was. I had to find her.
Blaise and Levi both felt like she was in Tampa. Levi was good at this shit. He had to be right.
“Trev has the order to bring him to Tampa. He’ll know where Acid has her. We will unleash the LA Vipers on them once we have Haisley safe, and Gage gets to put a bullet in Acid,” Blaise said.
“I’d rather slice him up,” Gage told him.
“No time for that. We need to handle what we came to do, then let the others have their fun.”
Blaise took a seat and motioned for me to do the same. “We’re about to land.”
Please be there, baby. Please let us be fucking right.
Thirty
Haisley
“AJ isn’t answering his phone,” Tick said, walking back into the sanctuary of the abandoned church he’d left me in with the other guy who had been in the back of the van, who I now knew was Skid.
They had blindfolded me until we were out of the van and inside, but I could clearly tell this had been a church. The cross over the pulpit, the broken church pews scattered about, and the stained-glass windows with depictions of Jesus’s life in them all made it an easy guess.
Skid shrugged. “Acid is almost here.”
Tick sharply jerked his head to the side three times. He did that a lot. I figured that was where he had gotten the name Tick.
“I need a hit,” he said, clawing at his arm.
The wooden doors swung open, and a tall man with dark hair and eyes and a wide mouth, almost like Steven Tyler, along with a snake tattoo covering both his arms and going up his neck walked inside. His eyes locked on me, and he smiled.
“So this is AJ’s sister,” he said as he got closer to me. “He mentioned you were pretty, but he was definitely holding back.”
“Fucking hot is a better description,” Skid added.
“Hmm,” the man said, walking around me, as if inspecting me completely. “AJ believes she will draw them out?”
“Yeah. She belongs to one of them,” Tick told him.
“Which one?”
Tick and Skid looked at each other. They had no idea.
“Take her gag off,” he said to them. “We need to know who we pissed off. How many they’ll bring. If Blaise will be coming too.”
“I got it, Acid,” Tick said, hurrying over to me.
This was Acid. I should have guessed. He had more snake tattoos, and the other two seemed to be nervous around him.
Once the gag was gone, I glared up at Acid. I wasn’t telling him anything. His gaze was appreciative as he took in my face now.
“Those lips,” he said softly. “You have a lovely, full bottom lip. It’s incredibly tempting.”
I said nothing.
He sighed. “I’m going to have to keep you safe. I don’t want you hurt. Now, who do you belong to?”
“I don’t belong to anyone,” I replied.
He grinned. “Defiance. I like it. I should have known you’d have some fire in you. AJ is your brother after all. We have time. They aren’t going to find us here,” he said, holding out his hands. “We can wait it out. Get to know each other.”
The way he said it, like he meant something more by that, made me cringe.
“I know you’re not Gage’s. I’ve met Shiloh. Then, the new boss is married, so you don’t belong to Blaise. The two scariest fuckers are checked off the list. There’s the younger Hughes.” He glanced over at Tick. “Do you know if he has a woman?”
Tick shrugged. “No clue.”
Acid sighed. “I could get Destiny here, but she’s so damn bitter about all of them that she would go for your throat.” He leaned in closer to me. “My sister used to be a stunner. Got mixed up with that family and pissed off Gage. Had Shiloh abducted. She is now a carved-up monster, I’m afraid. But he did let her live. That’s part of my revenge. They ruined her life. It’s time someone takes them down a few pegs,” he said, sitting down beside me. “Besides, when I kill off the family, then the Vipers will have power. I want power.” He smiled at me as if I understood him.
I continued in my silence.
He raised his eyebrows in surprise. “What? You aren’t going to tell me how they’re going to slaughter me? Take out everyone in their way?”